Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office detectives said investigating the murder of Heather Kelso and Kaden Lum was like putting the many pieces of a puzzle together. They were trying to use all those bits and pieces to – as Lt. Det. Earl Smith put it – “paint a picture.”

The picture KSCO painted was released Aug. 20 in the form of a nine-page certificate of probable cause. The document shows details of suspect Geraldo “Jerry” Castro DeJesus, 30, of Port Orchard, whom KSCO alleges committed the murders.

There were four people in trailer No. 21 at Kariotis Mobile Estates at 3060 NE McWilliams Road in Central Kitsap in the early hours of March 28: Kelso, her roommate Jalisa Lum, Lum’s 2-year-old son, Kaden, and Kelso’s friend, Mathew Dean. Jalisa and Lum fell asleep around midnight. Dean said that Kelso went outside to smoke. Two gun shots rang out and Kelso came back inside with bullet wounds in each leg. Dean was then shot and yelled for Jalisa to call 911. He went into the room where Jalisa and Kaden were sleeping and jumped out the window. The shooter came into the room and shot Kaden in the head.

Minutes later, around 2:18 a.m., KCSO deputies arrived at the scene. Kelso was found dead at the scene with four gunshot wounds, including two to the head. Lum was transported to Harrison Medical Center where he died. Dean survived.

Jalisa said that because of the dim lighting and the fact that she didn’t have her contact lenses in she couldn’t see who the shooter was.

Bloody shoe prints and 11 9mm shell casings were found at the scene. Jalisa and Dean were not wearing shoes that night.

DeJesus was aware that the daughter he and Kelso shared was staying at a friends house that night, and wouldn’t be in Kelso’s trailer.

At 5 a.m. – about two hours, 42 minutes after the shooting – police located DeJesus’ black Honda Accord parked near his Port Orchard residence. The engine was still warm. Officers kept the apartment under surveillance and then made contact with DeJesus at 8:15 a.m. He was the sole occupant of the apartment, as his ex-wife and children were staying at friend’s houses. After police brought DeJesus out, his ex-wife arrived. DeJesus and his ex-wife allowed police to search the Honda and the apartment. DeJesus told his ex-wife that his gun was missing.

Detectives found a case for a 9mm gun and one magazine in the apartment. There was no gun in the case, but the case did contain a “test fire” round. An ammunition box that was missing ten rounds was also found.

The WSP crime lab later found that “the test fire round (from Geraldo’s pistol box) was fired from the same pistol as all shell casings recovered from the homicide scene” – positive identification of the weapon.

But KCSO cannot say with certainty who was holding that gun when it was used to kill Kelso and Lum.

“We don’t have the weapon,” said KCSO Deputy Scott Wilson, who said that markings on the shell casings were like “fingerprints” that could identify the particular gun they were fired from. The gun itself could be at the bottom of Puget Sound, or who knows where.

Wilson said there are no eye witnesses nor DNA samples that link DeJesus to the shooting. That’s why KCSO is trying to “paint a picture.”

DeJesus told detectives he bought a 9mm handgun and two magazines from a friend two years ago and later gave it to Kelso for protection. He said he last saw the gun in its case on January, 2015, at Kelso’s home. But investigators found no gun at Kelso’s home and other people whom detectives interviewed gave differing accounts of the gun’s whereabouts.

A muddy pair of Van’s shoes were found in the apartment. The tread pattern was similar to prints found at the crime scene.

DeJesus had small cuts and dried blood on his left leg and the injury appeared to be caused by something sharp and pointed. DeJesus said it was a work injury. Detectives interviewed co-workers but they could not verify the injury. DeJesus said he worked until 10:40 p.m on March 27 and then went to a friend’s house that was located less than a mile from Kariotis Mobile Estates. Then he went to the 76 gas station on South Kitsap Boulevard in Port Orchard to buy beer and chips. He told detectives he then went back to his ex-wife’s apartment and sat in his car, “stewing” about his personal situation with his children, and smoked cigarettes. Then he said he went inside, watched Netflix and went to sleep.

Investigators, however, found no record of his Netflix account being accessed on March 28.

Kelso obtained a protection order March 5 to keep DeJesus away. In it, Kelso stated, “I am fearful that the violent behavior I have described in this petition will continue or escalate now that I have ended our relationship … I don’t feel safe with him having guns. He is going to be very angry at me for getting this order.” Kelso described DeJesus yelling and spitting in her face, hitting his own daughter and punching holes in walls near Kelso.

DeJesus pled not guilty Aug. 21.

Below is a timeline of events as described in KCSO’s certificate of probable cause:

2011-2013: DeJesus purchases a 9mm Smith and Wesson handgun and two ammunition magazines from a friend sometime around 2011 and 2013.

Sept., 2014: Kelso’s phone records show her asking DeJesus to pawn his gun. DeJesus tells her it’s not registered.

Jan. 2015: DeJesus told detectives he last saw his gun January, 2015. (He later said he gave it to Kelso for protection. “I’m thinking it’s still in the case,” DeJesus told detectives.)

Feb. 24: Kelso obtains a temporary protection order. DeJesus moves out of Kelso’s residence and moves in with his ex-wife.

March 5: Kelso is granted a one-year protection order. DeJesus is ordered to not possess firearms.

March 10: DeJesus provides a list of items he wants from Kelso’s residence. There is no mention of a gun.

March 17: In a Facebook message, Kelso tells a friend that DeJesus “has been harassing me and I have a no-contact order.”

March 18: Kelso activates a new phone with a different phone number.

• Phone records show DeJesus used his iPhone to visit websites such as www.advancedbackgroundchecks.com that are used to search for persons and phone numbers. It appears he didn’t find Kelso’s new number.

• DeJesus sends a text message to a friend: “Just waitin man waitin on this damn lawyer to call me and this bullshit to be right. It’s killing me to see my daughter lexi crying every night and writing letters to her sissy. F**k man I’m stewing in frustration everyday.”

March 21: DeJesus uses his third phone (of three phones he owned) to call Port Orchard police. He said a friend of Kelso’s had called his phone and harassed him.

• Kelso’s Facebook account is deleted. The Internet Protocol address logged with the deletion is associated with the residence of DeJesus’ ex-wife. A password for Kelso’s account is also changed twice from the same IP address. The account apparently had been hacked into (see below).

March 22: DeJesus calls 911 using his third phone to report a vehicle prowl to Bremerton Police. DeJesus said his iPhone 4 was missing and there was a cigarette burn mark on the roof.

March 23: Kelso’s current Facebook page is created using an IP associated with DeJesus.

March 26: Phone records show DeJesus made two calls to Kariotis Mobile Estates, where Kelso lived. A manager said DeJesus told him to watch for “shady characters” at Kelso’s home.

March 27: Phone records show DeJesus watched Netflix on his iPhone at 9:57 a.m. (not the night prior to the homicides as DeJesus had stated – see below.) There was no Netflix activity logged on March 28.

• Around 1 p.m., DeJesus visits the daughter he and Kelso shared at the home of one of Kelso’s friends. He knows his daughter will be there overnight and not at Kelso’s home.

• DeJesus’ financial records show a purchase was made at McDonald’s at 6755 Highway 303 at 1:05 p.m.

• Around midday, Kelso borrows Jalisa Lum’s car to go to Jack-in-the-Box, 0.6 miles from the McDonald’s that DeJesus was at. Kelso called her grandmother around 1:34 p.m. The conversation lasts more than 20 minutes. Kelso tells her grandmother she saw DeJesus and had to go.

• Around 10:40 p.m., DeJesus leaves his place of work, PSNS. He then visits friend B.N.’s house on Clover Blossom Lane in Bremerton, not far from Kariotis Mobile Estates.

• Surveillance video shows DeJesus’ vehicle was at B.N.’s house from 11:07 p.m. until 12:24 a.m. March 28.

March 28: Around 12:30 a.m. an unidentified man with a Halloween mask, black gloves, long sleeved Van’s sweatshirt and black jogging pants is seen jumping a fence near Helena Drive near Kariotis Mobile Estates.

• Surveillance video shows DeJesus visits the 76 gas station in Port Orchard to buy beer and chips at 12:49 a.m. (This is the last time DeJesus’s location is confirmed until after the shootings.)

• DeJesus sends a text to B.N. at 1:24 a.m. and another to his ex-wife at 1:45 a.m.

• At 2:18 a.m., 911 is called regarding shots fired. Kelso and Lum are killed. Crime scene investigators find no guns nor ammunition in Kelso’s home. Ten 9mm Federal brand shell casings are found.

• At 5 a.m., Port Orchard police locate DeJesus’ Honda Accord on Sidney Avenue in Port Orchard. The hood is warm to the touch. They monitor the residence.

• At 8:15 a.m. Port Orchard police contact DeJesus at the home and search the apartment and vehicle.  They find the beer and chips DeJesus had purchased at the 76 station earlier are still in the bag, unopened. Muddy Van’s brand shoes are found that had a tread pattern that matched prints found at the crime scene.

March 30: Detectives serve a search warrant on DeJesus’ residence. A case for a 9mm gun is found, but no gun is in the case. A “test fire” round, and one ammunition magazine with 15 rounds of ammunition are found. A box of 9mm Federal Hydra-Shok ammunition is also found with 10 rounds missing. The type of ammunition appeared to be the same make and model as those found at the crime scene.

• DeJesus’ ex-wife is interviewed. She says DeJesus had earlier got the gun case back from Kelso. DeJesus told his ex-wife to put the gun case in the garage. The box felt heavy, as if a gun were inside. DeJesus said Kelso put tools in the box to make it feel heavy, and said there wasn’t actually a gun in the box, and he said the gun was actually missing.

• DeJesus tells investigators he last saw the gun at Kelso’s house. DeJesus asks to speak to an attorney.

April 7: All internet history on DeJesus’ phone prior to this date had been erased.

April 8: Detectives tell DeJesus’ they want to return his car, as they were done searching it. They give him a ride to the office and released the car to him. Detectives served a warrant on his cell phone and ask DeJesus why there was no activity logged the night of the homicides. DeJesus said he watched Netflix before going to sleep that night.

April 15: DeJesus reports being kidnapped in Port Orchard, giving a description of a male who wore a Van’s sweatshirt and ski mask. He said it started when he saw the dome light was on in the Jeep he had borrowed. He went to investigate and was forced into the Jeep and was forced to withdraw cash from an ATM. He said the suspect burned his face with a cigarette.

April 17: Port Orchard police interview DeJesus. DeJesus sobbed without tears during the interview and changed details of his story several times, eventually stating that a skinny white male with blonde hair, his age, his bangs up, wearing a Van’s sweatshirt, blue jeans and skate shoes came to his ex-wife’s apartment two weeks ago and demanded $1,000. The suspect bummed a cigarette and asked DeJesus what police knew about the “murder” and said he would be back. DeJesus said the man was the same man who kidnapped him on April 15.

April 30: The Washington State Patrol crime lab states that photographs of bloody shoe prints at the crime scene match shoes as Ipath Ras or Ipath O’ Connor skate shoes. The probable cause states, “Nearly all of Geraldo’s shoes are skateboard shoes.”

May 6: Investigators ask DeJesus where his third phone is located. DeJesus says it was stolen on March 28.

• DeJesus’ ex wife tells investigators she put the gun case in the garage (see March 30 interview above) 1 1/2 weeks prior to the homicides. She says DeJesus never owned Ipath shoes. She thought it unusual that his vehicle had been prowled twice within weeks.

June 4: A deputy finds an 11th 9mm shell casing not far from Kelso’s residence.

• Investigators receive the results of a Netflix search warrant. There was no activity on the account on March 28.

June 11: A coworker of Kelso tells investigators that one week before she was killed she told him she had to block her Facebook account because DeJesus was becoming possessive, controlling and deleting her Facebook friends. She said DeJesus beat her and had weapons and she was afraid for her life.

July 27: The WSP crime lab reports “the test fire round (from Geraldo’s pistol box) was fired from the same pistol as all shell casings recovered from the homicide scene.”

Aug. 20: DeJesus is arrested at work and charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault.

Additional information:

• Detectives interview a man who said Kelso said DeJesus took all his guns with him when he moved out of Kelso’s home.

• J.H. told detectives that Kelso’s Facebook page had been hacked, and her name changed to “Lammas Kelso.”

• One of Kelso’s co-workers said Kelso told him that DeJesus threatened to kill her if she tried to keep their baby away from them.

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