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By Lonce LaMon - March 13, 2013

The last time murder suspect and alleged insurance fraud perpetrator Kelly Soo Park appeared in court was the same day her husband, Tom Chronister, had his attorney file his claim against the City of Oxnard.  That was Thursday, February 28th 2013.

So there they were, Kelly Soo and Tom, by 8:30 am seated in the back row of the Honorable Kathleen Kennedy’s downtown Los Angeles criminal court room.  They usually sit on the very end at the center aisle in the third row back.  But this day they were sitting against the back wall—Kelly Soo in a beige swede jacket and her usual and customary black pants, and Tom in a blue striped shirt.   Kelly Soo’s eyes now looked redder than ever before, and her eye bags seemed to have grown even larger since the previous hearing.  It seems nobody else in human history has had eye bags that noticeable and has still looked so beautiful.  But, as usual, Kelly Soo looked stunningly beautiful.     

Kelly Soo’s mother, Irene, a diminutive woman in her early seventies, was seated next to Tom.  She was there quietly in a greenish-tan double-breasted jacket.  Plus most of the rest of the gang were there—the usual Kelly Soo Park entourage.  Kelly Soo’s aunt and uncle on her mother’s side (the Lithuanian side) were faithfully seated in the third row, and also her devoted friend Deborah Van Cleave sat dressed all in black next to the uncle. 

And then there was Kim, Kelly Soo’s older sister, who walked in after all the rest but still before the proceedings began and sat down exactly next to Kelly Soo on her right.  Kim is often at these court proceedings.


Kolleen Park

But Kelly Soo’s younger sister, Kolleen, a brilliant performing arts singer and actress in her middle-forties, is absolutely never at these court proceedings.  She is now taking on Seoul, Korea, by storm as she wraps up a four-month run of directing the musical Aida and prepares to again play the role of Diana in the musical Next To Normal, a drama about a woman with manic-depressive mental illness.  Also Kolleen has just been appointed to a position in the Council on Youth under the administration of South Korea’s new woman president.  Additionally she is teaching at the newly established Korean Art College. 

An extraordinary singing, performing, teaching, and directing artist like Kolleen Park must certainly find her sister’s predicament most perplexing. And frightening.   But her rising star in South Korea has made her more popular there than Beyonce is in the United States.  Her ascendency to stardom has made her the host of Korea’s Saturday Night Live along with an ongoing TV talk show personality. 


Irene Park, Kelly Soo Park's mother, waits patiently for her daughter outside the courthouse after the downtown L.A. pre-trial proceedings on June 11th 2012. 

The Reddings, Patricia and Gregory, the parents of the murder victim, walked into the court room after most of the Kelly Soo clan had seated themselved in the third and back rows. Patricia looked quite attractive with her sandy blonde hair pulled back and up.  Greg Redding as usual stood out with his very dark brown hair which seems almost black.  There were four young women who obviously knew them and were waiting for them in the second row--two brunettes and two blondes.  Perhaps they had been friends of Juliana.  Two of them looked like they could easily be models. 

Tom Chronister, Kelly Soo’s husband since November of 2012, is a 28-year-veteran Oxnard Police Watch Commander who just retired less than a year ago on July 1st 2012.  According to sources, Tom and Kelly Soo met in the Ventura County area in late 2011, and began seeing one another as Tom abandoned his then girlfriend. 

But the Oxnard Police Department expressed its objections about a police officer associating with an individual accused of a heinous crime—and murder in this instance—and instigated an administrative investigation.  Chronister was interrogated and disciplinary action was then imposed a month and a half after his official retirement date of July 1st 2012. 


This is the picture which appeared on the Oxnard Police Department website leading up to and just after Chronister's retirement on July 1st 2012.  Once the Oxnard Police Department saw the first adjustercom article about Tom leaving the downtown L.A. court house with Kelly Soo on July 11th 2012, the picture and Tom's profile came down from their website.

Chronister complains in his claim that the Oxnard Police Department acted in “retaliation for claimant (Chronister) having a social relationship with a person not liked by the Police Administration”.   This statement is ludicrous on its face as it’s intuitively obvious that it wasn’t that Ms. Park was disliked by the Police Administration (she’s on the surface quite lovely and likeable) but that she was about to stand trial for the murder of aspiring actress and model Juliana Redding.  Not only that, but she is heavily under investigation for her involvement with Dr. Munir Uwaydah for workers’ compensation insurance fraud. That’s not something a police department anywhere takes with a grain of salt.   

The claim asserts, “The disciplinary action was based on claimant’s relationship with a person alleged to be under criminal investigation, but that had not been tried or found guilty of any offense.”


Tom Chronister leads the way holding Kelly Soo's hand as they cross No. Broadway on Temple Street in downtown L.A. on August 17th 2012 after court.  Kelly Soo's mother, Irene, is in the black hooded sweatshirt and her aunt is in the pink shirt.  Copyright Lonce LaMon.  All rights reserved.

Alleged to be under criminal investigation?  How can one be “alleged” to be under criminal investigation?  One either is or one isn’t.  And the last clause of “… that had not been tried or found guilty of any offense” is even funnier.  Here’s another reason the defense is in no hurry to get this case to trial and is pulling every sort of ruse to keep it from getting there.   It’s a way of keeping Kelly Soo not guilty of any offense while Tom plays his charade as the good cop. 

The claim is so poorly written with numerous mistakes which include omitted words and flagrant mistakes of grammar that one can’t even get off the ground to take it seriously.   It is clear no one even bothered to proofread it.  It’s also obvious it was prepared from an old boiler-plate prototype for this type of claim.  In some places the plural of “claimants” is used when it’s obvious that with Tom as the only claimant it should read throughout in the singular.  In some places where the boiler plate reads “he/she/it” it is plain no one bothered to even pick the correct pronoun to represent Tom.  Pretty pathetic. 


Tom Chronister finally appeared openly with Kelly Soo Park this day, July 11th 2012, leaving the downtown L.A. courthouse eleven days after he officially retired from the Oxnard Police Department.  Copyright Lonce LaMon. All rights reserved.

The bombastic language is over the top and not believable to any person of sound reason.  Chronister alleges the allegations against him are not supported by facts and in response he requested a pre-disciplinary hearing.   After the hearing on the 30th of October 2012 the Chief of Police, Jeri Williams, upheld the disciplinary actions.  Then Chronister claims that as a direct result of the City’s behavior, he will continue to incur harm and attorney’s fees in an effort to redress the damages which “he/she/it” has sustained as a result of the City’s “outrageous behavior”.   It’s just a canned-response of hyperbolic accusatons that have no relationship to anything the City of Oxnard actually did.   It’s right out of the myth of Procrustes from ancient Greece when Procrustes made every passer-by he invited to spend the night exactly fit the bed by either chopping off the unsuspecting victim’s legs or stretching them. 

The disciplinary action has revoked Chronister’s permit card to carry a concealed weapon, taken away his retired officer ID badge, and has cut him off from inclusion in future official police department functions.   His claim reads in one place that the City of Oxnard’s actions are “malicious”.  

A reasonable person can hardly conceive of the City of Oxnard's and the Oxnard Chief of Police’s disciplinary actions being “malicious” or consisting of “outrageous behavior” when Park is being investigated for workers’ compensation fraud of such magnitude that it is believed to have inspired the murder for which she is about to stand trial as the alleged murderer.  It looks clear here that Chronister has a sense of entitlement that overreaches his sense of accountability.  

Chronister should have understood, like any mature individual, that when he fell in love with Kelly Soo it was going to come with a price.

Every choice a human makes comes with a price—just like it did for King Edward VIII who had to abdicate the throne in order to marry the woman he loved, Mrs. Wallis Simpson, who was an American, married, and already once divorced!  Any person who thinks that choices don’t come with a price is a child. 


Wallis Simpson

If Tom’s love is strong enough, what he has to sacrifice for it will be worth it.  But if he needs a cop’s retirement badge and a concealed weapon’s permit card so badly that he can’t do without them and has to hurl outrageous allegations at the Oxnard Chief of Police and the entire City of Oxnard over the loss of them, than he’s a very insecure man who refuses to take responsibility for his choices. 

If he were truly the powerful man that Kelly Soo most likely hoped for, then he doesn’t need the Oxnard Police Department’s endorsements and privileges.  He can move forward with the choice he’s made and take the losses. 

But Tom is showing that he’s the type who can’t live without his badge and thinks he can have his cake and eat it too.  With this perhaps now Kelly Soo might see that he wasn’t, after all, the man she thought could protect her.

Time will tell.  Kelly Soo’s trial now starts on May 13th 2013. 

lonce@adjuster.com

 
 

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