Oh. I thought that guy's name was Dunagan. But it IS interesting. VERY interesting. Why:
1. There was a Filipino girl (that matters) living on her own in Keddie. She was recently moved up from Livermore. As far as I can see, there is only one reason ANYONE, let alone a very young woman, would move from Livermore to Keddie. She was a Hells Angels girl, maintaining a safe house/crashpad.
2. A very notorious associate of the Hells Angels whose name (I shall call him "Big Red" because I like the idea of keeping my head attached to my shoulders) pops up in a LOT of iffy homicide cases lived in Livermore. He has a reputation for killing a LOT of "snitches."
3. If Chuck and Henry went to Livermore that weekend, it was to pick up narcotics, most likely meth, maybe cocaine. Meth, of course, induces effects similar to "acid," and "people" exhibiting such symptoms that weekend were just as likely to have been on meth as acid. One big difference: meth tends to make people VIOLENT. The Hells Angels had at that time a MONOPOLY on meth and a near-monopoly on LSD in Northern California. They had a lab just down the road in Portola, and a "clubhouse" (codenamed The Yellow House) in East Quincy. Not so much cocaine, but they had access to cocaine. They were working with Gamberg and his partner to bust all the non-HA pot farms in Plumas County to maintain their attempted monopoly on pot.
4. But if the HA wanted Johnny and/or Dana dead, they would not have been so stupid as to make the mess in Cabin 28. And the mess in Cabin 28 does NOT fit the MO of Big Red. And I don't see ANYTHING about that mess to suggest ANY kind of planning or foresight. I suggest Dana was killed by accident, and things went downhill from there.
5. BUT--it IS interesting that associates of one John Gordon Abbott, were pointing fingers at each other for the mess in Keddie. Why? Because Abbott and Phillip Arthur Thompson were hand in glove with the FBI, CIA, and DEA, and ATF. They robbed banks, sold narcotics, and traded weapons (like a warehouse full of Vietnam War surplus FULL of M-16 rifles, etc) to Salvadoran communist rebels in exchange for cocaine, which they dealt to the Hells Angels, for a short while. I mean, these guys operated their own private warehouse in San Francisco. All with the generous cooperation of Uncle Sam. For example, when they DID serve time, they were ALWAYS put in the same cell, in the same prison. Inside, they could gain information from other cons, then use that information when they were released ridiculously early. Constantly shielded by the Feds, Abbott committed several murders of young women. When the fun was over, the Salvadoran connection was shut down--and shifted to Columbia, instead. We all know the rest of that story.
6. But, I've already looked into a possible Abbot-Keddie connection. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Except, of course, the possible HA connection. Which is how I suspect Thompson heard about Keddie. Any "cover" these guys had for Keddie or any other crimes has long been blown off. And there is just absolutely nothing to suggest they were involved in Keddie 28. Any cocaine that Henry and Chuck may have picked up from Livermore would have most likely originated with Abbott and Company, but that's as far as that went.
7. On the other hand, IF Chuck and Henry drove to Livermore to pick up a PERSON, then drove that person BACK to Livermore, THAT might explain the "confusion" over what day(s) they went there. And if that person were one James Dunagan/Dunnigan, and not Big Red, then THAT might explain the mess in Cabin 28. How?
8. I suggest that everyone in town assumed that Dana was narcing. Whether he was or not. And he's the one who made the big effort to befriend Johnny all of a sudden. If Johnny's/Sheila's "friend" Henry Thompson was hinky about Dana, he might have said something to someone who called in outside help. I don't see any real evidence of that. But it's POSSIBLE.
And there's NO WAY Chuck, Henry, and anyone else would have crossed Big Red and his crew. No way.