Ricardo Lopez's 803-Page Diary

What Björk thought of it?

If he's on social media, Sami Saif might be a person of interest since he had access to the tapes in order to do the Video Diary of Ricardo Lopez compilation.

I should've mentioned this one. I am 100% sure that those are actual stills of the diary and not recreations. I took a clip from the episode where they were showing a bunch of the stills in a rapid frame-rate and I managed to divide each frame as a still to analyze it. Because I have all the videotapes in my procession through both a file sharing site and the Hollywood Police Department (in a slightly better quality than what's online today), Ricardo had shown excerpts from his diary in his tapes that were the exact same as some of the stills in that M&S episode.

In the episode, two of the multiple persons interviewed were closest to the case. Dr. Louis Schlesinger and a former Hollywood PD spokesperson who was involved in the case in 1996. I've contacted both about a year prior to that episode being released in 2018. What makes both of them common is that not only were they close to the case, but both read the actual diary. Dr. Louis Schlesinger managed to get an entire copy of the diary scanned for him (probably around 2002-03?) and the physical prints were seen in an ABC Primetime Thursday episode which can be found on YouTube.

I did e-mail Dr. Schlesinger in September 2017, and yes, he did confirm he had the diary "somewhere in his basement". But he's a dead-end because he did not reply to my follow up e-mail. I didn't bother to ask further. 

As for Sami Saif; in late-2016, I had called briefly had a conversation with him via cell phone and asked him about the newscasts at the end credits of his film, but I have doubts he read the journals since the point of his film was to show a more human side of Lopez rather than what most tabloid journalists and filmmakers were showing of his footage around that time in the late 90's. What introduced him to Ricardo's case was a Danish show called Yderzoner which had an episode entirely about Bjork's case. He then saw the footage again in Tomas Gislason's film, The Patriots in August 1997, nearly a year after Ricardo's death. Which leads me to conclude that Saif was more geared towards Lopez's video diaries than his handwritings because those were the only materials publicized. 

I only managed to obtain very few information over the years but nothing that is deemed interesting. That being the crime scene photos of his apartment I received in 2016 through Broward County, a few FBI records and notes, and an autopsy/medical examiner report. Nothing more than that. I should mention that I believe the crime scene pictures weren't meant to be released by them and some form of miscommunication happened along the way. I just so happened to be talking to the right people at the time who had access to that sort of thing instead of directly contacting that particular records office themselves. Some of the pictures I posted on a forum are floating on YouTube today as a compilation for some reason. 

So the only lead I could get closest to is Dr. Louis Schlesinger. But that is a dead-end in itself. There's no way in hell I'm going to even think about bothering Ricardo's family.

Would you know if the journals would count as a report or are reports basically just police reports. I do have the police reports and they've said that 'several pcs of paper (including journal)' were destroyed in January 2007. So a possibility is that they have a copy of the original or it's just destroyed. I also spoke to someone who had did a request similar to what you described (in person), and all he could get is the videos and the police report  because they said that's all they had.