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Riverside County, California private investigator Robert Charlton was an integral part of the work done to expose Heidi Diaz (the obese woman known as “Kimmer” of Kimkins diet fame). Robert has written a fascinating article about his involvement in the case and the days and days of surveillance it took to finally obtain pictures of this reclusive woman:

During the several days spent on surveillance, I observed Ms. Diaz out of the apartment twice. She was usually seated at a window on her computer. I remember thinking “what a strange woman”, just sitting at the computer all day long creating diet schemes to take money from people who have placed their hopes in her hands to help them lose weight.

I passed by her vehicle one day and noticed a tray of sugar cookies with sprinkles just recently opened and sitting on the passenger seat of her mini van. This from a woman telling other people to eat 500 to 800 calories a day all the while she is taking in much much more than that.

Read Mr. Charlton’s blog post here.

I have been busy with a lot of other things while this whole Kimkins thing rolls along towards some inevitable conclusion. I am making a post at this time because I noticed that the top hits on a Technorati search for Kimkins are all from affililiates and other Kimkins proponents. Technorati searches are listed with the most recent blog posts at the top. Relevance and authority doesn’t factor into the order.

Bloggers who are interested in trying to prevent people from researching Kimkins without seeing the truth should post often.

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.

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.