So as you may have noticed from the last post, there was a robbery at the home of the mother of Maze Knowles. My mom, Michelle Knowles stayed with a friend for a couple days and upon returning home found that her home had been invaded, trashed and robbed. The thieves moved or tossed over furniture, turned around every mirror in the house, trashed everything, and left behind empty beer cans and used heroin needles. It seems that the robbers may have purposed targeted my mom and may have known Maze, and they went through stacks of family photos and left out photos of Maze where they would be noticed. The robbers wanted my mom to know they had been there by leaving out photos of her deceased child. Some of the things that were stolen from the home belonged to my mom, some of the things that were stolen belonged to me. Most of these things are replaceable. What is very upsetting, however is that the majority of things that were stolen were things that belonged to Maze. After Maze died, we were never allowed to see his suicide note because Long Creek said it was a part of the investigation into itself. All we had left of Maze were his belongings. Things he owned that he left behind. He left his own little personal touch on so many things In this post I will detail some of what was stolen from us. The last post on this blog was a copy-and-paste of a very brief posted I printed out and hung up around Vassalboro. I don't have direct photos of everything that was taken, so some I just sourced from Google Image Search.
I am still offering a CASH REWARD for the return of any items, or any information that leads to the return of the stolen items. How much cash depends entirely upon what we get back and what condition they are in, but we want everything.
The police have been contacted and do know of what was stolen. The police want to track down whoever it was that broke into my moms house. IF we have the stolen items returned to us, we can make the police stop trying to find out who robbed my moms house.
Contact me via email at
drewtardif@gmail.com
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One thing was his school backpack, that was orange, yellow, and black. I remember that he left a few doodles of his own on and inside the backpack. Before he passed away he had actually nearly filled it up with origami frogs, which was something I taught him when he was very small. I learned how to fold little origami frogs when I was a kid, and I taught him how to fold them, too. What I didn't know was that he apparently had very recently folded a few HUNDRED of the the little guys and was keeping them all in that backpack. I noticed that he drew eyes on a couple of them, which I thought was cute. The few hundred little frogs that he folded were dumped on the floor by the robbers, who I assume stole the backpack to carry out all the other things they stole.
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A folding pocket knife. Like a lot of things Maze owned it was purple and black. It had it's pocket clip bent out of shape.
● A whole wooden shelf they stole off the wall, I don't know why they stole this.
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A handcrafted small table my mom crafted from an Ouiji game board and a
birch tree stump. It's more art than it is table, I don't know why they
stole this.
● A mostly black, with gray endcaps, USB external hard drive. It's capacity is 40 gigabytes. I was using it to store a large amount of photos and videos of Maze, to keep them all in one place after he died.
● A black colored USB flash drive. It's capacity is 16 gigabytes. It
was a hole through the middle of it for tying a lanyard through it.
● A ring with a red jewel on it.
The thieves stole a bunch of dolls that belonged to Maze that were creatures from the Pokemon video game series. Some of them were hand-me-down gifts from me, as I had been playing the Pokemon games for a few years before he was even born.
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This little one is called Poliwag. It is rubber and hallow.
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This one is called Pichu, it has a connector on the bottom for hooking it up to a game. About an inch and a half tall.
● This one is called Blastoise, its made of a hard plastic and about an inch tall.
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This is called Charmander. It's almost a foot tall and is a cotton doll. It's a hand me down that I had owned since 1999.
● This one is called Poliwhirl. It is about softball sized and is a cotton doll. I am really upset about this one being stolen because it used to be mind. I had gotten it in 1997 and I had loved it so much, it was a favorite of mine. But I stilled handed it down to Maze. Now it's gone.
● This one is called Bulbasaur, it is a large doll.
● A black and white Ibanez electric guitar. This is mine.
● A Sony PSP. Also called the PlayStation Portable. It is the older, fatter, 1000-series of PSP.
Here is a photo of Maze teaching our mom to play a game on the PSP back in 2009.
● A Sony Playstation 2. The older fatter version. And the controllers for it.
● The item I am most upset about being stolen was his Nintendo Wii, a game console he won in a raffle he entered at Bull Moose Music.
Even though he won that Wii, he didn't have the money to buy a lot of Wii games for it, so for christmas that year I took his Wii and modded it to play a bunch of games that had been put on its SD memory card. That made him happy. He sometimes had taken the SD memory card out of his Wii and used it in his digital camera to take photos.
When he put the SD memory card back into his Wii, the photos he took would sometimes show up on one of the parts of the Wii main menu when you turned the Wii on. It randomized which photos showed up, sometimes it was my own face, a photo he took of me, or his face, a photo he took of himself. On the Wii each player could make cartoon avatars called "Miis" that they could play as in some games. Maze had actually took a really long time in the Mii creator and made rather accurate Miis of every single person in out family. The Mii he made of me was really accurate. He did that way back before he started to transition, so there was a Mii of himself from before he transitioned. After he transitioned he never deleted the old Mii, he just made a new one of himself as a male. If you own a Wii then you will know that whenever you go to the Mii menu, you will see all the Miis that had been created on you Wii. They will walk around the screen and interact with each other. I always left Mazes Wii plugged in. Whenever I went to visit my mom, I would see it's little red light, glowing in my room. I would power it on, the light would turn green. On the main menu I would see the one photo it choose at random, a photo Maze had taken of me or himself. If I opened the Mii menu I could see all the little Mii avatars that Maze had spent so much time creating. They'd waddle around the screen and interact with each other. It was nice to see the little Mii avatar of himself walk around and interact with the others, like me, or our mom, or David. After our grandfather passed away it was also a nice thing to seen the Mii that Maze made of our grandfather walk up and interact with the Mii made of himself. Sometimes I would play games on Mazes Wii and remember all the times we played games on it together. Out of everything that was stolen, more than anything, I want back Mazes Wii and the two Wii controllers and the SD memory card the most.
Oddly, the thieves forgot to steal the Wii Sensor Bar, which the Wii controllers use to communicate with the Wii itself. I don't think it will work very well for them since they didn't steal the Sensor Bar as well.
(This document is not quite done, but near enough done that it can be published and usable in it's current state. More will be added later.)
Again, I am offering a CASH REWARD for the return of the stolen items, or any information that leads to their safe return. To talk to me, please contact me via email at
drewtardif@gmail.com
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