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Tell All Interview on the life and leisure of Chester Arthur Stiles
With Elaine Thomas, former live-in girlfriend and Attorney Conrad Claus
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Saturday, October 20th
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EDITED TO ADD:
At the bottom of this interview, it says that I’ll be posting a 2nd part to it. Instead, Elaine and Conrad have agreed to do an interview with us at Sarcastic Crime Talk Radio. That will give you, the readers an opportunity to call in or join us in the chat room to ask her your questions yourself. We’re shooting for Thursday, and I will post that time as soon as I have it. It will be a 2 hour segment and the chatroom will be open. Please keep checking back for the time.
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October 15, 2007, at approximately 7pm Pacific time, police in Henderson, NV made a routine traffic stop on a white Buick Century with no tags. That car held the most wanted man in America next to Osama Bin Laden himself: Chester “Chet” Arthur Stiles.
I received a frantic phone call from Sue Bess tonight at a little after midnight to turn on CNN quick. “He’s been caught! He’s been caught!” She cried into the phone. I tuned in, and sure enough, there is Chester Stiles’ beady little eyes staring back at me.
This has been a rough week, all compliments of Mr. Stiles. I was granted an exclusive interview with Elaine Thomas, former live-in girlfriend of Chet Stiles. But, with him still on the loose, I was terrified to write it for fear he’d ID her and then seek retribution as a result. I vowed to keep her identity safe, and try to tell the story without pointing information directly at her, and in the long run, drug my heels because of my fear for her safety.
But tonight, I have talked with Elaine, who to call ecstatic, would be the understatement of the year. She said “I am shaking I am so relieved.” in an IM conversation tonight. And, rightfully so. Elaine is the person who identified Chester Arthur Stiles to the FBI after seeing him on the news. And for that, feared for her very life.
Elaine met Chet Stiles in June of 2003. He was a friend of a roommate’s boyfriend, and through a chain of events, Chet moved into Elaine’s home. This is Elaine’s story, in her words, not mine. We talked for about 3 hours during this interview, and it is as complete as I could possibly ask for.
We got together in June of 2003. He was a friend of a roommate’s boyfriend. At the time, I had several people living with me. He was a young, good looking guy well built, kind of a bad boy, and he smoked pot . But, I knew he’d been in some trouble. He had said that he’d just gotten out of jail not long ago.
He told me that it had been an issue with his girlfriends family, with Tina Allen’s family. Something about a stolen vehicle, which he never fully explained, and I never asked. He knows the type of house I run, I don’t do drama, you can’t when you have that many people living with you. I live in a nice neighborhood.
Chet moved in right away, he needed a place to stay, and god knows I was stacking people like chord wood at that point. He had a job delivering water to construction sites. He didn’t have a car, so I drove him. I was a temp. I met him at the end of my contract during that month. Everything was going along fine. Most of the people moved out of my house and got their own places.
Chet and I were going to move into a place together. We found a house in Boulder city that we really like, but then he started talking about growing pot in it. I can’t live my life looking over my shoulder. I’ve never had a reason not to allow police in to my house, and I couldn’t imagine living my life like that. So, we ended up splitting up over it.
He stayed living with me full time until Late November when he started seeing Tina again. He was in an out a lot during those days. They were very on an off again. A few days before Christmas I get a phone call from Metro (Las Vegas Metro Police Department). The detective wanted to know if I was Chet’s wife. He said he was looking for Chet Stiles, that it was a very serious matter, but at the same time, wouldn’t say what it was about. The detective said he was from the sex crimes unit. When he said that, I said “He’s living in my house, I need to know!” That’s when they told me that he was accused of molesting a six year old little girl.
Never in a million years would I have ever guessed that’s what this would be about. I don’t have children, but you don’t leave children alone with men. That’s how I was raised. We didn’t leave kids alone with anyone, but especially men. The detective actually said to me, “Well, you know, I talked to a little girl and she said he touched her. I really want to talk to him.”
It was about an hour later when Chet came home. I jumped all over him. I said, “A detective just called and said you touched a 6 year old.” He went white. He was upset like an innocent man would be. He did try to call the detective and didn’t get a call back. The next morning, he set the alarm and started again. The detective said he was busy, and that Chet was supposed to call the detective again at the first of the year.
Even looking back now I can see how I was fooled. He’s very book smart. He would tell you he’s a Navy Seal. He could describe the buildings in Beijing, yet have never be there. I never believed he was a Seal, because I was in the Navy, and I knew he was in the Navy, but never bought the Seals bit. He worked out all the time. He was very fit. Yes, he absolutely worked out constantly,and was always very buff.
I never truly believed he was a seal, but there were other things he said I did believe. 
I have pictures here with him with Seigfried and Roy, and the tiger that attacked Roy.
I taught him how to use the Internet. Like, one time he looked up a dojo in Texas, that he used to belong to. He was in a picture for a team that was set to go to the Olympics and he was in that picture.
He was also very intelligent, but he definitely had a lot of insecurities. He needed constant emotional stroking. Like, “God your smart, you look good baby.” all the time.
After the first of the year came and went, Chet called the Det. and set a appt. for the 1 week in Jan. He and I went together and when we got there, the Detective took Chet into a room by himself. The story was that he and Tina Allen were staying at the little girl’s parents house for the weekend because the parents were having issues and he and Tina were there to take care of the kids. He said that the closest they were to being alone was that he was in the bedroom with them watching TV and Tina was in and out of the room periodically. Apparently, from what he said, the little girl’s mother mother had an issue with him, and he and Tina left. He didn’t say what the issue was, but just that there was one.
The Detective was nice, congenial, but after he was finished, he asked Chet to take a polygraph. They scheduled it, even though he was worried about it. The had scheduled it at that point for two weeks away from the interview that they were just completing. Chet said he was worried because there’s a reason they’re not allowed, but he’ll do what it takes to clear his name.
Now, a few months later, he was working at a greenhouse. He and I are not together emotionally anymore, but we were still living together.
Two weeks go by, and the Detective calls again. He wanted to know why Chet didn’t show up for his polygraph. I told him that I didn’t know. He’d been working a lot, it’s February, I told him. The Detective said to give him the message to call him back.
I asked Chet about missing the polygraph and he said he’d had second thoughts about the polygraph. But, the Detective convinced him to schedule another for March . And, it was during that period of time that Chet had moved in with Tina.
The Detective called me again and said that Chet didn’t show again for the polygraph. I told him that I really don’t know why he didn’t show up. He’s not living here anymore, he’s living with his girlfriend. The Detective said “I’m not sure what to believe on this story. So, if he doesn’t take that polygraph, I have to turn it over to the D.A.”
When Chet lived here, his son used to spend weekends here. The Detective asked if Chet had done anything strange with his son, and I emphatically told him that Chet was trying to do right by his son. He had taught him that he should always open doors for ladies, be polite, speak intelligently, etc. The Detective sounded appeased, and said that he was scheduling one last polygraph, and if Chet didn’t take it that he was going to turn it over to the D.A.. He also asked me if I thought that Chet did this crime. I told him honestly that I didn’t think so.
It was from that point on, that I never heard anything from that Detective again. I’ve been in the same place for 6 years, and after that last time in March, never heard from that Detective again.
Over the next year, Chet woulds still come around everytime he and Tina would have a fight.
He got a place in South Vegas, and Tina moved in with him, and then she was in and out, living with him for about a year. Then she’d move back with her mom. This happened every few months.
I never visited him there at that house though. I didn’t want anything to do with the place because of all the pot and stuff he did.
Chet was totally against everything outside of pot though. Don’t get me wrong, he had manic episodes that made it seem like he was on major drugs, but that was his own psyche at work. He Wouldn’t even date people on meth or drugs. He was very judgmental with a pretty high opinion of himself, and a very twisted sense of right and wrong most of the time, but he was very against drugs outside of marijuana.
He wasn’t a drinker either. I have seen him drink maybe 3 times, and each time he puked his guts out. No, he was very much not a drinker. One thing that he had was severe migraines though. And, he still does get them.
In September of this year, I woke up and he was in my house. He had a migraine so bad that it made him vomit. He said that no way that he could drive like that.
Chet lived in South Vegas until March/April of 2005.
He lived in Pahrump until November, 2006 give or take a month or two.
Then he went to California, somewhere near San Diego. He wound up with a lady named Susan in California.
I didn’t hear from him until June of this year. He called the cell and I was in the hospital when he called. I had just undergone surgery.
He said he was coming back to Vegas, and that he’d be here within the next couple of weeks. To see how I was doing, he called every day while I was in the hospital.
Then, he didn’t show up.
I didn’t hear from him. It’s Chet, and that’s just how he does. I figured he got sidetracked, or as we call it, “Pulling a Chet”.
It was early August that he did finally show up. He didn’t stay because he hated my roommate’s son. I can’t have drama, and so, I told him he couldn’t’ stay. But, I did put him in a hotel for a few days. He had his son with him. I put him up a few different times in a hotel. My income is limited, so, I couldn’t afford to put him up on the weekends, but during the week I did that a few times.
Then, he came over one day while my roommates son was gone, and when my roommate’s son came home they actually made up. It was at that point that he started staying again. Susan came a few times and picked him up. She wasn’t’ going to live in Pahrump with him, she was just going to rent a house for him.
What gets me about this whole thing is that he normally likes older heavy set women. My Lane Bryant catalogs were like porn to him. I believe 100% that he is truly sexually attracted to that type of woman. Like, if he saw two girls walking down the street, and one looked like Angelina Jolie and the other looked like Kirstie Alley, he’d be checking out the Kirstie look-a-like.
The thought process involved in what he did to that child, I can’t imagine.
Chet is very narcissistic in a lot of ways. He’s compulsive about his appearace. Washes himself compulsively head to toe 3 times over, scrubs himself and rinses himself off.
If he doesn’t look good he doesn’t have confidence. He dresses impeccably. Like for instance, I couldn’t do his laundry because I didn’t do it right. He actually sits there and watches the washer to make sure the clothes spread out right. Then, he rinses them 2-3 times.
Chet loves animals. But, he’s also, like a farmer with animals. They have their purpose. He doesn’t like animals that don’t work, like hunting, protecting, catching mice etc. He treated them good, but harsher than I would be. He was stern, not mean though.
The last time I saw him was 13th or 14th of September. He called and said he had an accident with the truck, wants to sell it, but needed a place to store it. He asked if he could have it towed to my house. I Said yes, but that he couldn’t leave it there. So, he had it towed here. The front end is all smashed in on it.
Susan picked him up, and then he came back driving the Century that he had gotten from a friend of his, that Susan bought him and said he’d be back in a week or so to pick it up.
It’s still here.
Then, I was watching the news. CNN said that a video was found in the desert. It was a grainy, black and white and I called my friend in and said “Doesn’t that look like Chet?” I wasn’t sure though. It wasn’t a good picture, and it bore a resemblance to him, but nothing I could be certain of.
That picture kept me from calling because of the mustache, and my roommate agreed. The mustache that was enhanced on that particular picture was not something that Chet could grow. He’s American Indian, and he just can’t grow a mustache like that. I decided that it was 40/60 and it sort of looked like him.
Two nights later, I’m sitting here playing a game called 2ndlife and I had the news on the television. I happened to glance up at the new pictures they put up and I screamed. It was loud enough to wake my roommate out of a dead sleep and she ran in, looked at the pictures and she screamed too.
They had a shot from the waist up and it showed the birthmark, 2 little mole type things on the side of his face, the birth mark on the right side of his chest, and there was no doubt in my mind.
Once I calmed myself down and decided that I wasn’t going to puke I picked up the phone and called a friend of mine who is a very prominent attorney in town. I needed the voice of reason and I didn’t want to call the crime line and be a part of a machine that would take a few weeks to get through. I also wanted protection, and was afraid he’ walk through my door literally any minute. It was mind blowing.
I said to my attorney, “I know who that is on that tape. It’s my ex.”
My voice was shaking. He said “Are you sure?”
I said, “I am 110%. I would bet a lifetime of salary on it. I know it’s him.”
My attorney and I talked for a half an hour. He offered for me to go stay with him.
At that point, it was still Nye County’s case. He took me to an Investigator conference. I sat there for an hour and a half spilling about absolutely everything I knew about Chester Stiles. I told them all about how the Detective sat on that warrant. That Detective could’ve walked here from where his office was at, regarding the six year old little girl. No one ever said a word. It was at that point that it came out about the 6 year old’s warrant. They weren’t looking for him that hard.
I emailed more photos I had of Chet, but I wouldn’t let them release the photos because I was the only one who had them, and he’d certainly know it was me that gave the photos to the police.
To top it all off, my roommate moved out end of September. Chet knew that and knew that I’d be there alone.
As luck would have it. Another roommate showed up out of the blue. Chet didn’t recognize the vehicle and I think that is one thing that has stopped him from coming here.
My personal opinion is that he doesn’t have money to leave the area. I think he will be found hiding in plain sight, very close to Vegas. I told the investigators all of this.
Nye county did a press conference that day, but didn’t release the name. They had to check out some of the information that I gave them, but it was frustrating. It felt like they were wasting time. I had decided that if they don’t didn’t do something by the next morning I would talk to the FBI. And, then, Nye County agreed to keep me anonymous.
I go home next morning and I’m talking to the FBI. I sent them pictures and some of the different information that I had on Tina. They were very curious about her because she didn’t willingly come forward.
Fri morning: The day after I talked to the FBI office, I was on the phone with the FBI Agent, and saw call waiting and it was Tina.
She was calling to tell me that they released Chet’s name that afternoon and she wanted to know if the police had talked to me about him. Tina also said that what kills her the most is that the little girl in the video just say Chet last week and was fine with him. Chet had gone over there to adopt a dog from them. A pregnant Bull Mastiff/Pit Bull mix.
He picked up a dog from her that’s why they saw, the little gir’s mother. (We will not be using this child’s name or photo on any page of www.sarcasticcrime.com.)
Personally, I have to say that he is probably loving the media attention and he loves outsmarting the police and my opinion is that he will hide in plain sight. I think he’s probably still in Vegas.
It feels like I’m living in a twilight zone. He and Tina even lived together here for a while. Their power was out for a month during the winter, so they stayed here as a couple. She says they weren’t in a relationship, but they were definitely living here as a couple.
This concludes part one of this post. I will post the rest of the interview later on today.
