MemoAirtel SAC Milwaukee to SAC Seattle re suspect Donald Jack Shea1 July 1975page 2 of 3
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Part 119, page 23

Serials MI 164-36

Document date 1 July 1975

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MI 164-36

Serial No. 461 11 95; was employed as a loan officer by First Federal Savings, Chicago, for 4 years and by Home Federal Savings & Loan Association, Chicago, for 6 years. He has [REDACTED] in Memphis, Tennessee; he met his present wife JO ANN SHEA, nee Obler, in Chicago while both were employed by Home Federal Savings & Loan. He was employed about 8 months by IRS at Rockford, Illinois, as a Revenue Officer before moving with his present wife to his present address.

They purchased their farm of 140 acres for $19,500 and the mortgage is held by the Federal Savings & Loan Association, Prairie du Chien. They had been coming up to Prairie du Chien for several years with friends before they purchased their farm and subsequently decided they wished to live in the area. He said he moved to Prairie du Chien for reason of his health as he was suffering from ulcers and other nervous disorders.

When he and his wife moved to the farm, both commenced working for the Pink Elephant Motel and Lounge, Marquette, Iowa, in September, 1971, and lived at the motel. He tended bar while his wife managed the motel. When his wife terminated her employment at the motel in December, 1971, to accept a position with the Federal Savings & Loan Association, Prairie du Chien, they moved into their farm house which they were in the process of renovating at the time. He worked six nights a week at the Pink Elephant with Sundays off. After quitting his job at the Pink Elephant in April or May, 1972, he has been self employed raising beef cattle, corn and grain. He is unable to recall specifically his activities on 11/24/71, but said he would have been working that night if it was not a Sunday because he did not take off any time from the job.

On 6/23/75, [REDACTED] the Pink Elephant Motel & Lounge, Marquette, Iowa, with [REDACTED] advised she could not locate her payroll records for SHEA, but recalls having hired SHEA as a bartender about 8/15/71, and his wife as manager of the motel in the 2nd or 3rd week of September, 1971. She quit her job in December, 1971, to work for the Federal Savings & Loan Association, Prairie du Chien, where she is still employed. She let DONALD SHEA go in February or March, 1972, for she suspected he was shortchanging her at the bar and in addition she suspected his wife was also