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Gabe was telling her about why they were in such financial trouble. She said later, “He just started taking clients out to dinner (clients of the American Insurance Company). And he got the BMW. He said it would help him with getting more clients. And he said he was paying back the ROTC loan.” (Author’s note: He may not have been doing that repaying.) “He started using credit cards for everything—gas, food, everything. And he got business accounts for the women who worked for him at the life insurance agency. He bought cell phones for them and the accounts. It was all going on credit cards.
    â€œIt just got worse and worse. He got the place in Pocatello.” (Author’s note: He may or may not have rented a place there.) “So there was another rent. And then he picked up a real nice Mercedes. The money would just come in and go out before we could save any. He just kept applying for more and more credit cards. All the money was just going out.”
    Jesse McCoy also heard this line of reasoning from Gabe. Jesse recalled, “He said he wanted to go to Oregon and be around Mom and the ones he loved. He was having marital problems, but the next thing I knew he was back with Jessica once again. I wasn’t aware that he was having any financial difficulties.”
    Bill Pope had heard this all before, but he loved his daughter. He knew how much she wanted to keep her family as a unit. He very reluctantly agreed to give them $7,000, and told Gabe to declare bankruptcy in Oregon. Since Gabe didn’t even have a car now, they had both been repossessed, Bill loaned them the use of a pickup truck. With grave misgivings, the Popes watched as Gabe, Jessica and Kalea drove off and headed westward to Oregon in September 2009.
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    By the time Gabe and his family reached Bandon, Oregon, Robin had divorced James Anstey and was now living with new boyfriend Bob Kennelly. Bob owned a place out on Highway 42 South, which was several acres on the south side of the Coquille River, about six miles from Bandon. This was a very pretty area of woods, farms and ranches along the river and rolling forested hills. The immediate area was known as the Flower Hill Ranch. It was a postcard setting for that part of Oregon.
    Bob had been born in Los Angeles, California, but the family moved to Redwood City, up in the San Francisco Bay area, where Bob spent his school years. He met a girl named Linda Sellers there, and they got married in San Jose in 1985. They eventually had two daughters.
    In the 1990s, Bob and family moved up to Oregon, where he worked for the JGS Machine Shop for many years. He and Linda divorced in 2002, and Bob then married Linda Bray in 2004. In 2008, Linda died of cancer.
    Bob and Robin Anstey began dating after she divorced from James. Besides having a nice place up on Flower Hill and raising alpacas, Bob liked hunting and riding his motorcycle. Bob and Robin also liked eating out a lot at the local restaurants. By 2009, Robin was living full-time at Bob’s place outside of Bandon.
    Bob’s property included the main residence, a large shop building, with a second story, and several outbuildings. The main house was a spacious split level. Its setup allowed Robin and Bob to have their own area downstairs, while Gabe, Jessica and Kalea lived in their separate upstairs section. Robin and Bob had a master bedroom on the ground floor, large kitchen, dining room, bathroom and living room. Upstairs was a bathroom, two bedrooms and another small bedroom in a turret. This was only half jokingly called the “Castle Room.” Gabe and Jessica had one upstairs bedroom; the second bedroom was used for storage; Kalea slept in the Castle Room.
    The main residence had an unusual pattern. The main stairway to the upper rooms led to a balcony, which looked down upon all the open space below. From the balcony and stairway, there was an unobstructed view of the living room and the front