[[Phillip Hawes]] was the Indio City Manager. He confirmed to *Indio Daily News* staff writer [[Paul Zalis]] that [[William Cole]], a Los Angeles-based attorney, had been hired to investigate possible links between the triple slayings of [[Fred Alvarez]], [[Ralph Boger]], and [[Patricia Castro]] and the [[Cabazon Casino]].[^1] --- ### Footnotes [^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.