yes. it s like you don t want to mess with these people. because back in the 1970s if you did, you would have to answer to one man, melvin reine. this family had sort of a grip on the town. particularly melvin reine, the patriarch of the family. he just had a hold on this community like you wouldn t believe. he was a convicted arsonist. he had a saying he would say, i smell smoke. and that indicated to you that something was going to burn. even the cops were under melvin s thumb. one of the fires that he was convicted of was setting a car on fire. that car was in the driveway of the police chief at the time. didn t matter who you were, businessman, police, didn t matter.
the family business seemingly frozen in time. what was it like working there? we had fun. we really did. it was a lot of fun. shirley was the clerk at the company. i took care of the accounts payable and accounts receivables. shirley s husband melvin reine started the trash removal company five star enterprises in the 1970s. it was really very much a family business. shirley reine worked in the business. and his sons took part in it? his sons took part in it. but over the years as the company expanded, the lucrative business that once united the reine family quickly became the root of its unraveling. i am told that the sons did not work their territories. there were customer complaints.
there was a lot of me. there was no doubt, when i was in the emergency room, i wrote in a notebook, melvin did this. he is telling his officers that melvin reine did this. and they don t go to melvin s house. they don t interview melvin reine that night. they don t go to him and say, do you have an alibi? there is technology you can test to see if someone shot a gun. they don t test him. like the other unsolved cases related to melvin, he was never charged. busby s case went cold. and fear drove the busby family out of falmouth for good. they had succeeded in getting john busby out of their little world. just two and a half years later, there appeared to be a breakthrough when melvin s son todd, then 17, got a traffic ticket.
first thing out of their mouth was, do you know he is a federal witness? i just looked at them. basically didn t say much more after that, man. while cnn has been unable to confirm or deny todd s ties to federal law enforcement, he was at one time an informant for the local police department. he was protected by the police. he had the police. if you are not worried about the police, who are you worried about? an allegation that police have adamantly denied. but then why does the written report from john s 2003 meeting make no mention of shirley or todd reine anywhere? rams insists that he told authorities todd reine wanted her dead. why wasn t it in the report?
extensive criminal record from assault to manslaughter. did he ever tell you why he wanted you to burglarize shirley s home? he wanted the documents. the sex tapes. he wanted shirley and melvin s newly signed will and trust documents and several tapes rumored to exist which allegedly show his stepmom performing sexual acts with other men. when he approached me, he had the plan drawn out. he said the $10,000 is in the drawer. the sex tapes over there under the tv. the safe is there. in the safe is the documents with the will and testament. did you feel look you had a choice? you always have a choice, ma am. in december of 2002, john rams and two accomplices carry out todd s plan and break into shirley s home. did the burglary go according to plan? yeah, yeah.