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Christopher Hignite
Bluegrass Conspiracy : Scratch a child support case and
solve murder (Part 2)
September 21st, 2010 2:31 am ET
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crime.
II: Michelle Brizendine
It is true that I ran into Michelle on two subsequent
occasions, once in 1995 at a tanning salon and once
in 1996 at a bar, the Looney Tunes Saloon. On the
first of these occasions, at the salon, Michelle was
visibly pregnant and when I commented on this, she
hastened to inform me that the child she was carrying
was conceived by her with a man she was planning
to marry, that the child was not mine, and that I
should give it no further thought. On the second
occasion, at the Looney Tunes Saloon, Michelle had
given birth to her child. She said that she and the
child were living with the child’s father, that she
intended to marry him, and that she was moving to
Indiana
I now know that Madison Brizendene was born to
Michelle Brizendine on April 24, 1996. I do not know
who Madison’s birth certificate names as her father. I
do now know that, sometime in 1996, Michelle
Brizendine gave my name as the child’s father in
order to get a medical card.
The Civil Summons which would not be served to me
until April 26, 2007 was signed on November 11,
1997. In November 1997 I was living in Lexington on
Snow Road. I was not difficult to find. However, as I

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now know, Michelle Brizendine and her daughter
Madison had left the state: on October 31, 2007
Michelle told my mother and my brother that she lived
in Indiana “from the end of 1997 until the end of
2001”. I now know that, after Michelle and her then
husband (whoever he was) divorced, Michelle,
Madison, and Michelle’s younger daughter returned
to Lexington. By that time, however, by December
2001, I had left Kentucky. I did not move back to
Lexington until November 2004 when my mother’s
circumstances and a desire to help her in caring for
my brother Brandon brought me back to share her
home. I did not know in 1997, in 2001, or in 2004, in
fact, I did not know until April 26, 2007 that it was
claimed by anyone that I was a father. Only today,
November 6, 2007, have I been able to extract from
the County Attorney the date that is written on his
scrap of paper; it is now claimed, with no evidence
whatsoever on the document itself, that an attempt
was made to serve me with the Civil Summons 17
July 2000 (see below p.11 ). Finally, my mother will
swear that no one at any time prior to April 26, 2007
made any attempt to contact me through her
concerning either Michelle or Madison Brizendine.
III: The DNA Tests
The DNA tests were done on June 28, 2007. The
report was stamped by the lab on July 6, 2007.
Presumably Byron Ockerman received them shortly
thereafter. However, he did not forward them to my
attorney until October 1, 2007, and it was at this late
date, with this short notice that he informed her of his
intention to seek the Summary Judgement which Ms.
Scott rightly called “devastating”.
If these DNA tests are accepted, then I am the father
of Madison Brizendine. However, if I am the father of
Madison Brizendine, then I have every right to be
furious that I was not informed of that fact prior to or
at the time of her birth. Not only would I have had an
opportunity to spend some time with her and be of
some influence on her in her most formative years,
but also I would have been afforded the chance to put
the child on my insurance, hence eliminating the
need for a medical card in the first place.
In 1995 and again in 1996 Michelle Brizendine told
me that another man was the father of her child, and
by the end of 1997 she had left the Commonwealth of
Kentucky, and moved with her man and her daughter
to Indiana where she raised the child as his.

On June 28, 2007, in the presence of the DNA nurse

Michelle told me that she had never asked for and
had never received child support for Madison, that,
even now she was not asking for it. Michelle said
that she had been surprised when she received a
copy of the summons to me dated November 11,
2007. She couldn't understand why she was even
being asked to take a DNA test. She had never
requested any of this. She wanted to raise Madison
on her own.

When I told Michelle what I believed the County

Attorney was intent on achieving, she told me not to
worry because they couldn't ask for what they hadn’t
paid her..

On October 2, 2007 Jenny Scott wrote a letter to

Michelle Brizendine requesting a meeting about how
the city is acting in this case. By the end of the
month Scott told me that she had heard nothing from
Michelle in answer to her request.. On October 30,
2007 my mother, Jane Hignite, and my brother, Cory
Hignite, went to see Michelle where she, Madison
and a younger daughter now live, with her parents
here in Lexington. They were greeted cordially.
Michelle was not at home, but her father encouraged
my mother to speak with her on the phone and a
meeting between them was arranged for the evening
of the following day, October 31, 2007. .

At that meeting, the meeting of October 31, 2007,

Michelle Brizendine made several quite significant
statements.

First, in answer to my mother’s query about

Michelle’s (non-) response to Jenny Scott’s letter to
her, Michelle stated: “I didn't even get anything today.
I had my dad open my mail yesterday after I got off
the phone with you. I don't have anything in the mail.”

Second, with regard to the summons and to the

forthcoming court hearing, Michelle reiterated to
mother and to my brother some of what she had told
me in person on June 28. “You know, every time
through the years, they send, they've sent me
papers, like, every year. They always ask me if I
know anything about him, his whereabouts or
anything else and I always put, I don't know. Cuz, I
don't know.” Michelle had run into my brother Cory
earlier this summer, once at Gatti-town, once, in July,
at the Southland swimming pool. “Did I ever ask
you?” she said. Cory said “No”. Michelle continued:
“Did I ever one time ask you? Did I say, because if I
knew, I would feel like I had to tell them, does that
make sense? So, I never asked. I've never one time
asked him. Well, where is he livin' or where is he
workin'. I've never asked anything because I knew if I
asked I'd feel like when they sent that paper again, I'd
have to put it on there.

Third, when my mother apprised Michelle of the

conditions which Byron Ockerman was asking the
Judge to enforce, Michelle expressed shock: “Did he
[Chris] piss somebody off? If he's pissed somebody
off down there, then, there ain't nuthin' I can do.
There ain't nuthin' nobody can do.” Considering the
matter yet again, Michelle concluded as follows;
“Well, it sounds like this really doesn't have anything
to do with me or Madison ... is what it sounds like. It
sounds like they found something they could screw
him on and they're gonna try to do it.”

Fourth, Michelle Brizendine divulged to my mother

and to my brother that she herself felt threatened by
the authorities. During the preceding week she had
been called by the County Attorney’s Office and told
by her case worker that some discrepancies had
been found in the day-care payments that were being
made, not for Madison Brizendine, but for Michelle’s
“little one,” her younger daughter. This child attends
a day-care in Lexington on some days of the week
and a different day-care in Morehead, KY on other
days of the week; the Cabinet for Families and
Children had been paying each day-care for a full
week’s services; they now wanted their money back;
and, Michelle said, they did not intend to seek it from
the day-cares, but were demanding it from Michelle
herself. Michelle’s case worker set up a meeting with
her, a meeting that was to take place the very next
day, the same day that Byron Ockerman would seek
a Summary judgement against me. Michelle said: to
my mother “I owe them $2600, so tomorrow I'm going
to pick up the papers from my work and I'm gonna sit
down with the supervisor and I've called Frankfort, I
mean I've called everywhere. If I'm lucky, I can get it
cut in half. If I'm lucky.”

IV: Purged Summons

On May 1, 2007, when my mother and I first visited

with Jenny Scott and when we hired her to represent
me, I had already explained to her that my case might
not be routine. I believed the County Attorney’s office
had been harassing me and filing false claims for
years in order to destroy my credibility and break my
will. She told me that Michelle Brizendine was not
pursuing the matter. She told me that, to the best of
her knowledge all summons and warrants this old
had been purged. She did grant, however, that “it’s
really strange that a ten year old case, not being
pursued by the mother, would just appear on
someone’s desk one day”.

Ms. Scott called down to juvenile court. The lady

there agreed that the serving of a 10 year old
summons was strange; she suggested that perhaps
there had been some mistake; she felt that most
likely we had nothing to worry about. However, she
also felt we should contact Byron Ockerman, We did
just that. Ms Scott called Byron Ockerman and put
him on speaker phone so that my mother and I could
hear what he had to say. Ockerman told Scott that
he knew the file she was talking about. Oh, said my
attorney, well, this man is disabled and only works on
and off. Additionally, the mother has made no
attempt to pursue this matter. Shouldn’t we just set
this aside? This could destroy this man’s life. Byron
replied “No, I don’t think I will. Now that it has been
served I think I’ll have some fun with this”. My
attorney told him that I had no means to pay what
Ockerman was demanding and that it would be
“devastating” to me. Ockerman laughed. “I know “,
he said, “See you in court”
.

V: Margaret Kannensohn and Byron Ockerman

In 1996 and again in 1997 Michelle Brizendine did not

want me to know that she thought I was the father of
her child. In fact, she explicitly denied to me that
paternity. And in so doing, she denied to me the right
to be a father. Michelle Brizendine had no hand, she
says, in filing a complaint (by Kannensohn,
Ockerman et al.) and no knowledge of any warrant
issued against me.

Why then was a complaint filed? Why was a warrant

issued at all? Why is there on the document itself,
even today, no proof whatsoever, either that any
attempt was ever made to serve it or that it was (after
ten years) served at all? Why is it that the original of
my copy of the warrant was at some time, by some
one dated by hand in the upper right hand corner ‘07-
17-06’, only a month before Margaret Kannensohn
surprised the Lexington Herald-Leader by
announcing that she was retiring as County Attorney
five months before the expiration of her term of
office. And why has Byron Ockerman, Margaret
Kassensohn’s assistant in 1997, pursued with such
vigor a file that, like its fellows, should have seen the
trash after 3 years. (Rhodes, Mary, “Kentucky
Automated Support and Enforcement System
Guidelines, p.7.)

The answers to these questions can be found in the

(abridged) history that follows in part 3:

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