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Declaration of Leanne Ingram, 2nd Wife of infamous COS P.I. Eugene Martin Ingram Los Angeles County Superior Court, Civil Case #D950357 (filed 2/28/1978)

I Leanne Ingram declare:

I am the petitioner in the above entitled action, and am making this declaration in support of my requests at the Order to Show Cause. I first filed this action last February. At that time I filed an OSC requesting among other things that my husband be ordered out of the house forthwith. When I told him what I was about to do, he implored me to cease and desist from proceeding with the Order to Show Cause or the divorce since he would never again commit the brutalities listed in these OSC papers. I relented, contacted my attorney and the OSC went off calendar. Immediately thereafter, Gene (Eugene Martin Ingram) again began to abuse me. My attorney was notified, re-set the OSC to March 30, 1978 but that too went off calendar. What happened is that Gene moved out of the house, and removed the emergency aspect from the proceedings. One of the orders that I had sought in the prior OSC's and had been granted ex parte, was an order removing him from the home.

Gene and I began to more or less amicably discuss settlement, but, as set forth below, this attempt has proved useless. I request custody of our minor son, Jason. My husband is not a fit and proper person to have custody of a 3 year old child. Additionally, he consents to such custody. I further request that any and all visitation that he be granted to be as strictly limited as the court could possibly make it. I would further request that there shall be absolutely no visitation in the presence of Gene's parents, and that he be enjoined from interfering with the temporary custody of Jason by his babysitter unless he has my prior consent. Finally I would request that there be absolutely no over-night visitations with Gene at this time. Gene is a Sergeant with the Los Angeles Police Department. He has been fully trained in the academy. During the first years of our marriage, he physically attacked me in a brutal manner on three separate occasions. The first occasion occurred approximately the first year of our marriage.

Gene's daughter, Gena, by former marriage, was staying over-night with us. She fell asleep in our bed and I carried her to her own bed thereafter. When Gena woke up and found that she was not in our bed he "demanded"; an explanation. Gene started yelling. This woke Gena up and she started to cry. Gene went in to see her and when he came back he knocked me across the room, grabbed me around the neck and started to choke me in a manner that he had been taught by the academy. If he had continued in this manner, I would have become unconscious. However he did stop before I blacked out.

The second violent occasion occurred about one year ago. Gene was angry at our son, Jason, and was yelling at him. This caused Gene and I to get into a fight. I finally went upstairs, Gene followed me. He threw me on the floor and started yelling at me.

The third time that Gene attacked me was at the beginning of October, 1977. We were trying to sell our townhome in North Hollywood. It had been rented for two years previously and was quite dirty and had to be cleaned up. Gena was yelling at Jason. I told her to cut it out. Gene walked in and became enraged. I walked out of the room and into the kitchen. He came after me. He said: "You make me so mad, I just feel like hitting you."; Then he proceeded to hit me. He kicked me several times, slapped me across the face, and his fingernail cut my eye lid. My eye closed up and I couldn';t get it open for a couple of hours. Gene went into the other room and started screaming to the kids that I was a "psycho"; and a "witch"; Gena started yelling and crying. I again left the room. Gene came charging after me and started to kick me and hit me some more. At this time I started to fight back. I told him that if he didn't leave me alone I would call the police. Jason got in between us and got knocked down. Jason started to cry. I grabbed Jason and went home.

I am an airline hostess. I was supposed to fly to New York that night. When I got home, I packed to go on my assigned flight, and intended to take Jason with me. When I got to the airport, I was too upset to work that flight so I stayed in a hotel room with Jason. The next day we flew to Philadelphia. My parents met me there. When we returned from Philadelphia, a week later, Jason was watching television with his babysitter. A cartoon was on in which the husband hit the wife. The babysitter later told me that Jason became upset when he saw this and told her that "Daddy hit Mommy";

After that last beating by Gene, I had several black and blue marks on my legs and posterior, and both my arms and my eye lid were cut.

Gene's present behavior and his attitude towards both Gena and Jason can be explained, psychologically. Gena was born in January of 1971 to Gene and his ex-wife. Approximately a year after her birth, Gene and his wife were divorced. The child was not wanted by her mother and went to live with her paternal grandparents, who are presently my in-laws. Shortly thereafter, Gena was adopted, with Gene's consent, by my in-laws.

After our marriage Gene insisted that we have his daughter over to our apartment and spend the night on all of our days off. Because I have had this experience I feel that I have an insight into the relationship that Gene will have with Jason.

Gene is an extremely self-centered, selfish individual who cares only about himself. He has never shown any concern at all for what is best for his son. From the time when Jason was a day old Gene did everything he could to make Jason hyperactive. He constantly threw him up in the air. He would come home when Jason was asleep, wake him up, get him all worked up and then hand him to me and tell me to put him to bed. It would take me a considerable period to calm Jason down enough to get him back to sleep.

Whenever Gene had to work different or unusual hours, he always wanted Jason to stay up and wait for him to get home from work. It never made any difference to Gene if this were 8:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m., or even 10:00 p.m., even though Jason ordinarily wouldn't go to bed any later than 8:00 p.m. Then, Gene would keep Jason up until all hours of the night, demanding to me that he had the right to keep him up, regardless of the consequences to Jason. Then in the morning, if Jason would start to cry, Gene would yell at me to take Jason downstairs so that Gene could sleep.

Gene always wanted Jason to sleep with us. On the nights I was home, I would put Jason into his own bed. Then as soon as I would go out of town, Gene would put Jason in our bed overnight. It was an impossible situation because Jason got to the point where he didn't want to sleep in his own bed.

Gene went to Mexico by himself in January of February of this year. While he was gone I tried to train Jason to sleep by himself in his own room. Jason was so upset by this that I couldn't get him to sleep at all. He told me he hated his bed. I decided the best thing to do was to sell the bed and replace it with something he would really like. I spent a great deal of time explaining to Jason why I was selling his bed and he was glad because he hated it. Gene arrived home the night the people came to pick up the bed we were selling. Gene kept saying things in front of Jason like: "Mommy sold your bed, that wasn't very nice of her, isn't it too bad Mommy sold your bed, you really liked that bed didn't you." Jason became so emotionally upset by his father's statements that he couldn't stop talking about the fact that his old bed was sold for weeks.

When Jason was only 2 years old he got sick. Gene went out and bought him a cap gun including caps and gave the gun and the caps to Jason. I immediately grabbed the caps because a 2 year old child is unable to properly take care of that kind of a toy. We are very luck that Jason didn't have enough time to put the caps into his mouth.

Everytime Gene went to the store, during our marriage, he returned with candy he had purchased for the children. He always buys junk food. Instead of giving Jason one lifesaver, or just one piece of gum, he would give the whole package. It was always gone immediately. Of course this usually happened at meal time and then neither child could eat his or her dinner. Gene never seemed one bit concerned about their teeth or their lack of appetite. The last time Gene had visitation with Jason, I later learned that he let Jason stick his head way out of the window while he was driving, apparently with no thought at all that Jason could either get something in his eye or even fall out of the car.

Gene has always been a "fair weather father." Whenever Jason was in a good mood Gene didn't mind having him around. As soon as Jason got cranky or sick he always became "my baby."

When Jason was six months old we went to Yosemite with my sister and her husband. While there, Jason took ill and woke up screaming bloody murder. Gene became furious and told me to "keep that kid quiet." I spent most of the night up walking with Jason. The next morning Jason threw up his breakfast, and I knew that he was really sick. I told Gene to take us to the hospital in the Valley. All morning long all Gene could talk about was how he was missing a great day of skiing. He kept telling me to hurry things up so that he could get to the slopes, even though his child was very ill. Gene skiied every day while I sat in the condo nursing his baby back to health –he did nothing at all to help me.

Gene almost never changed Jason's diapers. Two days after I got out of the hospital after Jason's birth, I was not feeling well at all and had to stay in bed for awhile. Still, Gene would bring Jason to me with the diaper to change him. Gene never got up with Jason in the middle of the night when I was home and never fed Jason, even though both Gene and I worked.

The only thing that Gene has ever cooked in the past two years is a can of chili or beans or hot dogs. This he cooks in the microwave. He can't cook. He has given Jason cold hot dogs to eat or popcorn for breakfast, or candy when it is time for a meal. His idea of going out for dinner is to go to McDonalds, Jack-In-The-Box, Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is mostly junk food.

Gene always enjoys sitting and drinking wine when he watches television. Although at my protest, he would give Jason wine, and in fact so much that Jason would stumble around. Gene would just laugh at this.

Gene never actually bathed Jason, even though I asked him to on many occasions. On those few occasions when Jason would take a shower with Gene, what really happened is that Gene took a shower while Jason played on the floor with his toys. Jason would always come out dirty, including dirty hair. Gene would never dress Jason after such showers.

Before Jason was born, Gene would always take his daughter Gena with us to the movies. He wouldn't care whether it was R rated or X rated. It was seldom the kind of a movie that she ought to have seen. I would protest to him, and he would tell me that it was none of my business, since she was his daughter. The same things happened with Jason. The problem is that Gene just never gives any thought as to the mental or emotional or psychological states of the children he professes to love. It doesn't occur to him that anything could be detrimental to a child.

I was mentioning before the psychological origins of Gene's relationship with his children. I believe he has an extremely strong sense of guilt for having given up Gena for adoption. That is why he always insisted on Gena staying with us whenever he had a day off and this explains his desire for her to sleep with us. I fear that the same thing is going to happen with Jason, as much of it already has.

Gene has always wanted his daughter to come over; not really to spend any time with her, just to have her there. He was always bragging to his friends that he would spend a lot of time with his kids. Nevertheless, what he really would do is sit and watch television or read a paper or put up paneling or mow the grass when Gena was over. He never just sat and played with her. If he was watching a football game, the news or something that was boring to a child, he still would want her to come and sit with him and watch it. She would be bored with this within 5 minutes and go out by herself to watch television in another room or read or something. This would upset Gene.

When it was time to take her home, he would really go over-board and tell her how much he missed her and how much he wanted her to stay longer and how upset he would be when she left and wouldnt she like to stay and watch some special program with him on television. Then he would call Genes mother and say that they were having a lovely and marvelous time and ask if Gena could stay for just one hour more. Gena, who was under the impression that she was going to have some real fun with her father after being with him for a long time, would get emotional if Genes mother were to say no, would throw a tantrum, and would obtain an affirmative answer.

However I must say that in recent months in the last year, Gena has grown up a lot, she has smartened up a bit and now makes all sorts of excuses why she has to go home or cannot come over when Gene wants her to.

A pattern that I fear is going to be and has been repeated with Jason occurred with Gena from the beginning of my marriage with Gene. Gene would let Gena stay up until all hours of the night. She even watched Johnny Carson with us. Sometimes she would fall asleep during the show but always awoke when we were going to bed. Two weeks after we were married my mother-in-law told us that Gena couldnt sleep when she stayed at our house because she was not used to sleeping by herself. I told my mother-in-law that she slept fine, which she did, and asked what she meant by that comment. My mother-in-law told me that she and Gena slept together. From that day on, she absolutely refused to sleep by herself, and Gene, wanting to please her, with no thought as to the emotional consequences, insisted that she sleep not only with us, but between us. This is the same thing that he has done with Jason.

Gene has always slept in the nude and I always protested when his daughter was with us. I told him that it was very detrimental to her emotional wellbeing. He said that there was nothing wrong with it and would let her watch him not only when he was undressing but when he was using the bathroom.

Gene taught Gena how to swim. He did this by forcing her into the water although she was screaming to get out. I have seen this happen with other children that he has taught and they absolutely refuse to go anywhere near the water if Gene is in it. Gene would often sunbathe with his eyes closed while Gena was playing in the pool. She could have drowned and he would have never known the difference.

Gene has never really just played with Jason. What he does is that he waits until it is time for him to go to bed and then he gets him all agitated in one way or another. If Gene and Jason were out in the yard together, as at times they were when Jason was in his little swimming pool, Gene would just lie and sunbather and he would become very angry at Jason if Jason would talk to him and say "Daddy watch me jump in the pool"; or anything like that.

When Gene would go away, sometimes he wouldnt tell me where he was going and he wouldnt call so I wouldnt know where he is and he wouldnt have any way of knowing how Jason was. For example, he recently had a week off and went to New York by himself. When he left he said that he would call home that night. I didnt hear from him for a week, when he returned. He never called to se how Jason was. Three weeks after his New York trip he went to Canada and again left no number where he could be reached and never called home to check on Jason.

After I filed these papers, Gene started sleeping in the downstairs bedroom/bathroom. He said that he would clean them, which was a switch because I always kept the rest of the house clean. From that time until he actually left, May 19, 1978, those two rooms were never cleaned. There were dirty clothes, old newspapers, and all sorts of trash scattered from one end of the bedroom to the other. The toilet was so dirty I almost threw up when I went to clean it.

Another thing I fear is what Gene will do with Jason when I am not around. Gene always put me down in front of his daughter. She was always right and I was always wrong. He always told her she didn’t have to listen to me.

I think Genes fundamental problem is that he hates women. Even his mother has told me that that is so. I dont want my son brought up with his fathers warped ideals, morals, or attitudes toward life. I seek to do everything possible to prevent him from ruining Jason the way he has attempted to ruin Gena.

I also request an order that Genes visitation not be in the presence of his parents. In short, they are filthy people, live in squalor and degradation. Genes father, Gene Sr., has always beaten his mother and once held her at gunpoint and threatened to kill her. There are loaded guns in their house at all times. Their home is overrun with animals, stinks of urine and excrement, dog hair, and is always piled with dirty dishes.

Genes mother Patsy is a complete slob. She dresses in mens clothing, lacks all femininity, and Gene Sr. calls her a bull-dyke.

Gene Sr. is an unmerciful tease. He drives Gena to tears. Patsy has abused drugs and may still be doing so. They offer nothing but harm to the best interests of Jason and I request that Gene be restrained from exercising any visitation in their presence. So much for visitation.

I have also requested various other orders. The facts behind those requests are as follows:

After the OSC's had gone off calendar, a new period began. Gene told me that I shouldn't talk to my lawyer and that it would just be a big waste of money for both of us if we were to both hire lawyers and run up lots of attorney's fees. In the meantime we had arranged to sell a townhouse that we owned in North Hollywood and Gene promised that if I would just cooperate and sell it, that we could use the money to pay off all our bills and perhaps that would get rid of many of our problems. I agreed.

After the house was sold, Gene put a deposit on another home. He told me this was going to be his separate property home, that he agreed to the divorce and he wanted me to sign that home over to him by quitclaim deed. I talked to my lawyer, and he told me not to sign anything. **Gene told me to ignore my attorney and promised that if I would sign a quitclaim deed to his new home that he would use absolutely no community property funds to pay for it.** (underlined) He told me that he had borrowed the necessary fund for the deposit and assured me that his attorney, David Chapman, could see no reason why I was holding back. Gene would call several times a day to beg me to sign the quitclaim deed. He did everything he could to play on my sympathies. He told me how his car, the Pantera, was in the garage being worked on and that he was having trouble getting to and from work. He told me that he had to sleep on the floor at the place he was staying, that time was running out and if I didn't sign the paper that he wouldn't be able to get his loan and he would have no place to live. He told me he would lose a $1,000. deposit on the house if he couldn't get the loan, not to mention his carpeting deposit which was not refundable, and the interest on the money that he had borrowed to make the down payment.

I resisted as long as I could but he wore me down so much physically and emotionally with his pleading and begging that in a moment of extreme weakness I did sign the paper with the agreement that he would allow me to buy his share of our present home at 1136 Vista Ridge with other community property. He told me that I could owe him whatever the balance was in cash and it could be paid monthly with no interest. These were the conditions upon which I signed the quitclaim deed. He also said that before he did anything with the quitclaim deed, and agreement would be signed by us both in the presence of our attorneys as to the above verbal agreement. In good faith I signed the quitclaim deed, but when we returned to the house he informed me that he had to take the paper to Home Savings that day or he wouldn't get the loan. I protested. Again he swore that he would own up to our agreement, that no community property would be used for purchasing it and that he would in no way back down in our agreement about the Vista Ridge home.

Then on July 1st of this year, Gene called me and told me that he had re-assessed his financial situation, and that our agreement re Vista Ridge was off unless I agreed to take out a loan for the whole amount owed to him. He also told me that day that he had to refinance the pantera to obtain $12,000. to make the downpayment on the new house. I told him that he couldn't do that because the Pantera was community property. He just laughed at me and said "it is too late. I am really glad you signed the quitclaim deed."

I telephoned my attorney and told him that I had signed the quitclaim deed. I was severely chastised. No agreement had been finalized as to what community property would be turned over to Gene. Gene told me that he was just about ready to move into his new house and intended to take whatever community property from our house that he wanted. I called my attorney on July 6 in an attempt to prevent Gene from removing the property from our home until such time as I was present and an agreement had been reached as to what was to be removed. I am informed and believe that my attorney then telephoned Mr. Chapman, who is Gene's attorney, and obtained a promise from Mr. Chapman that there would be e stipulation drawn the next week, but effective immediately, which would prevent Gene or I from removing from the other, any of the personal property then in either of our respective possessions custody or control...

On the strength of Gene's promise, communicated to his lawyer, and through his attorney to my lawyer, and then to me, I went off on a flight to New York leaving Friday, July 7. I had intended to leave the house at approximately 12:20PM that Friday. At 10:00 AM that morning, Gene called and said he would like to take Jason for the day. Gene told me that he had to go to the dentist, and that he would get himself and Jason a haircut and that he would take Jason to the zoo. I agreed.

At noon Gene came and took Jason. My agreement with Gene at that time was that he was to keep Jason until approximately 8:00PM at which time he was to pick up the babysitter and bring them back to my home.

(The court should note that after Gene moved out of the house and purchased the other residence, I changed the locks on the two outside doors and the garage, which I thought made it impossible for him to enter. He refused to relinquish any of the keys to the home before then, but had agreed never to enter the house without my consent.)

I left the home on my flight to New York. I am informed and believe and thereon allege that at or about 1:30PM, as told me by my neighbors, Gene returned with his brother (Thomas Steven Ingram), proceeded to pick the locks, turned off the burglar alarm with the key that he had kept, and cleaned out the house... Late that evening I received a telephone call in New York from my frantic babysitter who told me what had happened.

Once again, I had been fraudlently misled by the false promises and misrepresentations of my husband, but this time they were communicated to me through my lawyer who told me that I could rely on the other lawyer's promise.

I now request the court make a number of orders. First of all, the court should render invalid and set aside that certain quitclaim/ deed executed by me on or about July 15 1978, which was executed by me under duress, undue influence, and because of the aforesaid fraudulent misrepresentations made to me by my husband. At the time, I was represented by counsel, my husband told me not to talk to my attorney about it, and he told me that he would do certain things, as aforesaid which he then proceeded not to do.

I believe he never intended to purchase the property entirely with his own separate property, there is no reason why I should now have waived any community interest in and to that home, which was purchased, in part, with community funds.

Secondly, I request an order that items be returned to the family home that were taken by Gene on July 7. This must be done. My attorney, as is set forth in his declaration, had the agreement and promise of Mr. Chapman, Gene's attorney, that this would not take place. I had indicated to my attorney that if he could not secure what he felt was an enforceable promise, that I would stay home that weekend, because Gene had threatened to clean out he house that weekend, but I knew he wouldn't do it if I were there. But for the promise and agreement, I would have stayed home and I would not have suffered the loss of these items of personal property.

Thirdly, I request that the 32 Ford Pick-Up be restored to our home where it has always been. Probably, what ought to be done is that it should be sold. However, I do not trust my husband to sell it. I would rather sell it and account to him for the proceeds rather than to trust him to do so. I can no longer trust him to do anything, I am sad to say.

Fourth, I request that the court order respondent to account for the several thousands of dollars that he borrowed from the police credit union on the strength of the community asset, the Pantera. My husband contends that it is separate property. However, it has been refinanced and repaid for a number of times during our marriage. Accordingly, it is community property, and whatever he did with those monies, they should be restored to the community.

Since the original orders to show cause were taken off calendar, I would like the court ot restore its original orders that the respondent be restrained from entering the family home for any reason, and I would further like an order that he be ordered to return the keys to me, including those for the burglar alarm system, so that I may be secure from his further adventures, and also that Jason Christopher never be removed from the presence of his babysitter without my strict instructions about pickup and return.

Additionally, I would like to be granted temporary custody of the Mark IV automobile. My husband drives the Pantera and he has always done well enough without this automobile.

Finally, I would request that the court make a specific order prohibiting the respondent from talking to me at any time, from making any conversation with me, other than discussions limited to visitation concerns. I am afraid that most of my problems right now can be blamed on my gullibility, and my desire to perhaps save this marriage at a time when my husband was only laughing at me from behind my back. He let me know that he had no intention of saving the marriage, but he led me on a number of times and, knowing my predilection therefore, I have been very naive with respect to entering (agreements).

Notes:

This was Eugene's 2nd marriage and his 2nd divorce. Earlier 1971 divorce is case #D782465 of Los Angeles County Archives, concerning his first wife "Dale Camille Ingram" also known as "Cary" Ingram, and their born-out-of-wedlock first child Gena R. Ingram (who was later adopted by Gene's parents).

Later affidavits in this extensive case file, describe Eugene's mid-1979 calls to Leanne, harassing her with epithets such as "f-cking c-nt," "g-ddam b-tch," and "whore," and by making threats not to return minor child Jason Christopher after visitation if Leanne does not comply with his demands.

The North Hollywood townhome at 10950 Saticoy Street #39, was sold in 1978 to John J. & Eloise M. DeLaGarza by Document 78-0304750 of Official Records of Los Angeles County.

The property Eugene Ingram purchased for himself was at 717 Danforth Drive in Los Angeles. The quitclaim deed alleged to have been signed under duress by Leanne is Document 78-778316 of Official Records of Los Angeles County.

Eugene Ingram later signed a quitclaim deed, releasing his interest in the property at 1136 Vista Ridge in Burbank to Leanne, as Document 79-1316127 of Official Records of Los Angeles County.

There was a later property transfer, of interest of a condo and a lot in the "Yosemite West" development in the Sierras in Central California, near Yosemite Park.

The Pantera was a 1972 DeTomaso model, and the Mark IV was a 1974 Lincoln Continental Mark IV. The property allegedly seized by Eugene included guns (one was a ..44 magnum), a football sculpture, a nickle slot machine, bar paraphenalia and a black naughahyde couch, among other male-lifestyle oriented items.

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