There are a couple of reasons why I have included this page. Number one is so everyone can know why my brothers and I do not want to see my grandmother or the Cator family. Number two is so that I can ask some questions about my grandmother's actions. And the last reason that I have included this page is to answer questions that have been asked in the media over the last three years.

Why Don't the Maloney Boys Want to See Their Grandmother?

First of all we do not want to see our Grandmother or the Cator family because we do not understand how they could think that my Dad killed my Mom. They have said in the media that they have known my dad for over 20 years and that they still love him. Yet in the next sentence they say that they believe my Dad killed my Mom. If they knew my Dad at all they would know that my Dad wouldn't ever do anything to hurt my Mom. If my Grandmother still loves/loved my Dad then why when she found my Mother's body on February 11th 1998 would she say, to the first person that talked to her, "I knew he was going to do this I hope he's happy now"? Obviously referring to my Dad. 

Why, when my Mom was in the Nitschke Center in April 0f 1997, did my Grandmother say that my Mom left the center by a taxi-cab. But in actuality my Grandmother went and picked her up, and said my Mom took a cab home. In April of 1997, when my Dad asked my Grandmother if she would sign papers to have my Mom admitted against her will, my Grandmother said she would sign the papers. Then she went and told my Mom that my Dad wanted to get her admitted, so my Mom voluntarily went to the Nitschke Center, like I said above, and she never got any proper help. 

Why did my Grandmother make the divorce a battle? She is the one that built up all the resentment towards my Dad, in my Mom. I believe if my Grandmother wouldn't have told my Mom that she was going to be admitted against her will, and if she would have stayed out of the divorce, my Mom would still be alive today, and my parents would be together. 

Why in the Summer of 1999 would she use the threat of getting my Dad sent to another prison in another state, just because we did not want to see her. Why would she write letters to my Dad's supervisors at the police station, lawyers, and the investigators that investigated my Mother's death saying that my Dad physically, mentally, verbally, and emotionally abused my Mom. She never saw any of this "abuse", yet she claimed it happened in our house all the time. Why, in October of 1999, when I asked her about the letters that she wrote, would she deny writing them and say that Tracy, my Dad's ex-girlfriend, and my Dad wrote letters to the investigators about my Mom ( they didn't write any letters). Why would my Grandmother create a girlfriend for my dad during the divorce? 

Why would my Grandmother have to go to the media with her wanting to back into the house that my Mom died in? Then she commented afterwards, on the Truthinjustice.org forum, that my Dad had to let them in the house otherwise the media would've had a field day. Why did she have to make a big deal, in the media about my Dad having to pay her back the money that she borrowed my Dad and my Mom? She used the media to make my Dad look as bad as she could before the trial started, and it worked. Why, if my Grandmother wanted my Mom and Dad to separate, would she put in all this money and fight the divorce that my Dad filed for? Wouldn't you think that if she wanted my Mom and Dad to separate so bad she would have stopped giving them money and let the divorce go through? She said that my Dad was abusing my Mom all the time, why would she fight the divorce? Cause there was never any abuse and she never saw any abuse. 

Why would the Cator family not believe that my brothers were with my Dad when the investigators say my Dad killed my Mom? They are calling us liars if they don't even believe what my brothers have to say. Why would my Grandmother say that the Maloney family is "brainwashing" and "controlling" us? The Maloney family is ready to take us to see our Grandmother whenever we want to, but the fact of the matter is that we don't want to see her. 

Why, after my Dad was convicted when we went to see my Grandmother at a hotel in Green Bay, would she wear pins of my Mother and have them all over the hotel room? She didn't need to rub the conviction in, if that is what she was trying to do. After my Dad was convicted we held a press conference were it was stated that the Maloney family was going to work with the Cator family. They were and still want to. It is our decision to see the Cator family or not and we don't want to, and it will stay that way. 

This list of things goes on and on. I guess the main reason that we don't want to see my Grandmother or the Cator family is because they believe my Dad killed my Mom. If they knew my Dad like they say they do, they would know that my Dad wouldn't do that. I have invited them to our house to come and read the court transcripts, and the discovery and they declined. They can believe what they want, but we know what really happened to my Mother, and we know that my dad didn't have anything to do with the death of my Mom.

Question: 

"Lola Cator said she was 'shocked, but partly relieved' to hear that her daughter's death wasn't a suicide." "I'm just thankful that she didn't feel that she wanted to kill herself." 

Lola Cator 
Green Bay Press Gazette 
2/27/98

My Grandmother stated this after my Mom's death was found to be a homicide. My Grandmother has stated that she thought that my Mom would drink herself to death during that week anyway. She knows what state of mind my Mother was in that week. When they talked on the phone all my Mom was doing was crying and apologizing to her for all the trouble she has caused. How can she rule out the possibility of my Mom trying to commit suicide after having telephone conversations where my Mom was a wreck.

Why Were the Boys in the Courtroom When the Verdict was Read?

My Dad was criticized horribly for allowing us to be in the courtroom while the verdict was read. It was discussed in our family whether we should be in the courtroom or not when the verdict was read, and it came down to be me and my brother's decision. We decided that we wanted to be in the courtroom. We decided that because it is our life and it would have and did have a huge impact on our lives. We went into the trial as a family and we were going to come out as a family. The Prosecuting Attorney, Joseph Paulus, said that he didn't know for the life of him why my Dad had us in the courtroom when the verdict came down. Well Mr. Paulus you brought up the charges, you brought up the trial, it is because of you that we were in that courtroom. If the death of my Mother would have been investigated properly there would have been no trial and verdict for anyone. My mother's death was an accident. The D/A and investigators built a case around my Dad, rather than looking at all the evidence.

Did John Maloney Abuse His Wife and Kids?

Never, not once did my Dad ever abuse my Mom, or my brothers and I, in any way. Friends of my Mom's and the Cator family claim that my Dad was abusive. Like I said above my Grandmother wrote letters to just about everyone about all the abuse that was going on in our house, but the key is she never saw any abuse. I questioned her over the phone, in October of 1999, about her saying that my Dad was abusing my Mom and us and she denied it, she lies, that's what all of her letters were about. When my Mom's "friends" were asked if they ever saw my Dad abuse my Mom, all of them replied no. Everything was hearsay. They saw bruises on my Mom, that's it. My Mom bruised very, very easy. She would stumble around, fall on the ground, knock things off the walls when she was drunk, that's where her bruises came from.