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I’ve mentioned a few times that Catherine has complete backups of data from the time of her association with Kimkins and Heidi Diaz, April 2006 to September 2006. These records include:

• PayPal transactions for all Kimkins.com member signups prior to October 1, 2006. The records contain information including amounts paid by members, member names, email addresses, and some postal addresses.
• PayPal transactions for site expenses including affiliate payouts.
• PayPal transactions for profit share payments made to Heidi Diaz.
• Kimkins.com website files and scripts and database backups. This includes the Kimkins.com forum, private messages, and chat logs for the period in question. Specifically, the records contain information about fundraising solicitations that were made on behalf of foster children Heidi Diaz claimed to have in her care.

Catherine is prepared to provide copies of these records to all attorneys or official investigators involved in pending investigations and civil actions. Please contact me through the comments of this post if you would like to receive this information.

During the course of my coverage of the Kimkins/Kimmer/Heidi Diaz story and my wife Catherine’s experiences as Heidi Diaz’ early Kimkins partner, there are some pieces of information I have not yet shared. This before picture is one of them.

Heidi send this picture to Catherine in an email dated July 17, 2006 — the same email in which she first provided the seated patio “after” photo and the famous profile before picture in the white floral top and white pants. Since this picture I’m sharing now has never, to my knowledge, been published I was concerned that there may be copyright issues. Given recent events, I think that the newsworthiness of this photo makes my publication of it fair use.

Click on the thumbnail to see the image just as Catherine received it. The image is a large file and provides the clearest view of Heidi’s face to date. Brandon is in the photo and since this provides a valuable clue to the approximate date of the photo, I have not cropped him out. He appears to be about four or five years old and so I think it’s likely that this photo was taken several years before the blue shirt pictures.

I don’t actually have a tinfoil hat. I was commenting on my environmentally themed blog about Coca Cola’s big recycling announcement and I started researching HFCS. This lead me to stevia which lead me to the FDA which lead me to former White House dude Rumsfeld. It is amazing how much questionable business and politics surrounds the simple business of making food and drinks taste sweet.

In 1991, the FDA banned the natural low calorie sweetener stevia from being used as a food additive (it is allowed in diet supplements). It’s use is widespread and common elsewhere in the World. I was just double checking to make sure it was true that Diet Coke is sweetened with stevia in Japan and I found out what a small World we inhabit. My query for “stevia japan coca cola” had Jimmy Moore as the top hit. His post is more focused than my post. He details how some big business entities may be making a push to get stevia unbanned as a sweetener in the US. The comments that follow Jimmy’s post are quite illuminating. As an outsider, I have a bit of an approach avoidance issue with American politics.

This whole thing becomes hopelessly complicated when you factor in the fact that the biggest exporter of stevia is CHINA. Politics, economics, health and safety, human rights…there are a lot of issues wrapped around something as simple as a sweet tasting leaf.

I clearly remember when I first met a person who directly benefited for the discovery that many stomach ulcers are caused by a treatable bacteria. That discovery was worth a Nobel Prize.

Now there is a recent discovery that a common virus plays a role in obesity. This is by no means as cut and dried as the cure for stomach ulcers. It seems to me that developing a treatment that would eliminate this factor would only be a small benefit to an individual. It could be worthwhile because of the overall benefit to the health of the entire population. Early research showed that 30% of obese people test positive for the virus while only 11% of lean people have it.

Read more Heidi Diaz (Kimmer) and the Kimkins diet saga here and here.

Southern California PI Robert Charlton of Alliance Investigative Services also took these surveillance photos of Heidi Diaz outside her residence. Mr. Charlton kept the residence, a two-bedroom apartment, under surveillance for days. He says that the only two people living in the apartment are Heidi Diaz and her son Brandon — no foster kids. Mr. Charlton does have a photograph of Brandon but I will not be publishing it at this time, since Brandon is only barely an adult.

Mr. Charlton told me something extraordinarily disturbing, but relevant to the discussion about Heidi’s hairstyles. At one point during the extensive surveillance he observed Heidi seated at her computer near an upstairs window, without her wig on. Heidi Diaz — and I do not know why — is bald.

Read more Heidi Diaz (Kimmer) and the Kimkins diet saga here and here.

Riverside County, California private investigator Robert Charlton of Alliance Investigative Services took these surveillance pictures of Heidi Diaz outside of the Kimkins.com post office box rental facility on N. McKinley Street, Corona, California. This is the address on the Kimkins.com domain registration.

As you can see, Heidi enters the post office box rental facility and then comes back out carrying some mail. Once again, please note that Mr. Charlton ran the plates on the minivan and it belongs to Heidi Diaz.

Read more Heidi Diaz (Kimmer) and the Kimkins diet saga here and here.

This is one of a group of 21 pictures I received today from Robert Charlton of Alliance Investigative Services, a private investigation firm in Corona, California. The pictures were taken on August 15, 2007. Click the thumbnail to see the full-sized picture.

I am spending some time to edit the remaining pictures to remove identifying details such as Heidi Diaz’ home address and the license plate from her van. This will take a little time. However, I intend to post the rest of the pictures later today.

The private investigator states that he is certain that these pictures are of the subject Heidi Diaz. Some of the details of how he obtained his information are trade secrets which he will not divulge. However, he states:

• He ran the plate on the minivan she was driving and it came back registered to Heidi Diaz.
• There is a small trash can in a public area at Heidi’s front door. The trash can has no lid and inside it, face up, was a receipt from a customer to Kimkins.com.

I am looking forward to the chance to interview Robert further on his experiences and observations during his lengthy surveillance of Heidi Diaz, and I will share more information as it becomes available.

Personally, I thought nothing could shock me about Heidi Diaz. However, today I can truly say I was shocked. How can an obese woman spend so much time making other heavy women feel so inadequate?

I have obtained pictures from a Southern California private investigator. He believes the pictures are Heidi Diaz — Kimmer from Kimkins. I was SHOCKED.

UPDATE: I just heard from the private investigator who conducted surveillance, and he wants it made clear that he is certain the photos are of Heidi Diaz. More soon.

Stephen Barrett is the man behind DietScam.org. I have used information from that site as a basis for some of my work before. After reading his relentless attack on the Atkins way of eating, I decided that I should find out more about this guy. He is a prolific researcher and writer with more than his share of critics. I will throw a softball at the litigious man by saying that I personally think his use of a word like ‘quackery’ that has no legal definition is a very convenient strategy. I would compare it to Listerine claiming to kill 99.9% of all known germs (the word germs has no scientific definition).

I think that, from here, on in I will always present any information that I get on his websites as his opinion, rather than established fact.

The thing that really sets Barrett apart is the broad range of health and diet related methods that he criticizes. He labels everything from acupuncture to organic food as ‘quackery’.

Read my Kimkins.com series here and see all the Kimkins-related Slamboard posts here.

Thanks to Kimkins Dangers, we may have some new insight into the truth about Kimmer aka Heidi Diaz. One of their readers found this PlentyOfFish.com profile of “Kimmer2″. PlentyOfFish is a popular free dating site started around 2003. This profile lists Kimmer’s son’s age as 16, which would date it about two years ago.

Could this profile be a hoax? At first, I seriously considered the possibility that the profile was faked. But here’s why I don’t think that’s the case: the uncropped photos on this profile, which appear to be of Heidi and her son Brandon (who is now about 18 years old) have not to my knowledge been seen anywhere else online.

Take a look at the picture with the marina in the background. Heidi send this exact uncropped picture to Catherine to crop and use as her before picture for Kimkins.com. Catherine has never released the uncropped photo to anyone else. Neither of us had seen the uncropped seated photo until now.

If Heidi did indeed create this dating profile herself, it seems quite likely that she is now an older, perhaps heavier version of the woman in the blue sweater. After all, why not post the red dress photo if that is what she looks like now?

Also, the profile says Kimmer is a former foster mom. If Heidi did not really have foster children when she accepted money fundraised in their name (summer of 2006) then she could perhaps find herself facing criminal liability for fraud.

Things are only going to get more interesting.