May 23, 2025
The intent behind this page is to give only a basic outline of some events. Briefly stated, as bullet points are not all the facts available. To understand what you are about to be told you need to also read the: https://www.shawneeryan.com/p/facts-and-attorneys.html page.
Our lives were torn apart with utterly complete loss of privacy that no one should ever have to go through. Ripped into and apart on levels that had nothing to do with alleged charges and allegations.
Done with malice and intent by individuals and prosecutor after he was exposed. The ultimate price(s) have been paid by myself and my family as a result.
As stated elsewhere on this blog, the exposures I am giving now will public eye 'plug' enough of the gaping holes that malice and intent slithers through. In short, enough, for now, is being said. This blog is not a "whining", "seeking sympathy" or anything else action on my part. It is the start of exposure of a so unbelievably and blatantly obvious part of the history of the Roaring Fork Valley; it's almost mind numbing. I overheard a comment from a person sitting in the courtroom many years ago now: "...they'll never forensic account look at the Chamber and Tourism. Too much money at stake and we'll never get any of it back to us..."
Well. Enough being said from me, for now. Albeit far from all of it. Let's sit back and see what comes.
First, a few more facts to outline. This time regarding the motivations of five individuals plus one that they groomed; who put most of that effort in.
- Marianne Virgili: Beeson tried his hardest to keep her and her involvement behind scenes and out of public view. But Marianne's insatiable greed for public spotlights and the depth of her efforts to orchestrate her and John did help me enough to get pushed forward enough to at least leave him no choice but to put her on the stand. Huge amount of evidence against her that eventually will come forward. But only those who truly know her (or) have followed her exploits for long periods will likely recognize the following description of her motivation for trying to hide and for what she did to me: In trial testimony she slipped and made a comment to trial record that she did what she did to us because I had stated that she was manipulating her contractor, project and construction loan(s) (Alpine Bank). True. I did say it to her and to John, on behalf (in front of) her contractor and his partner, when all were trying to straighten out her mess of her project. Albeit that she took the statement out of context as to 'why' we were all there in the first place. The point, is that all of this is totally and completely personal for Marianne. None of it was brought forward by prosecution, though attorneys all had been told and shown or heard by the jury or the public: I had unwittingly stumbled across, simply by working her project in Aspen Glen, 'how' she funnels and moves the public money of others to get what she wants. Actions she had been suspected of, by many, for decades. But never caught red-handed enough to be held accountable for despite publicly hurting, in similar ways to what she did to my family and I. Directly, at least three other lives long before I came along. The slap on the wrist she received back then in aprx 2005; made no direct impact on her except to change tactic. Tactic which is what I stumbled on so many years later. When I did, I walked away from her and her friendship. In Marianne's world, no one "does that" to her. Her ego just couldn't take it. I cared nothing for being around that kind of person and I left. The civil case I filed against her when she later was discovered as having launched the slander/destroy path against myself and my family (and) which I still hold the power of "without prejudice" ability on, will eventually reveal the incredible lengths she then went to for revenge and to protect her and John's secret. Again, no one who truly knows Marianne is not unable to instantly recognize these clear personality and ego traits. For this Timeline, she is listed because she went on to spearhead everything and everyone that came/still comes at us. Even after it all has been long over. https://www.shawneeryan.com/p/track-troll.html is just one of the most prolific examples of what's out there. There are many more. Professional sites, crude and vile sites. Still being created by what was started by Marianne. Remember: there are records out there. Including a full confession in her trial testimony that even when she was head of the Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association she crafted one of the worst viral sites. Marianne was heavily relied on by Beeson/Bryan/Bascom. No law enforcement used in my case.
- Jim Ryan: The weekend in the mid to latter 1990's that Jim moved my children and I to Carbondale, he went and had a heart attack. I was instantly thrown into the mess of his life that he had not previously disclosed. A toddler stepson (that he did not tell me was not his biological but instead claimed was until I enforced DNA years later) with a custody battle that went on for years and into hundreds of thousands of dollars in expense. A few hundred thousand dollars of business and personal debt with extremely large projects and very disgusted, angry contractors, vendors and workers hanging in the wind. Heavy drinking, drugs and his stepson's mother as same. Stuck, at that point; I put my head down, gave up my own work and pulled it all back together. Pretty much successfully. Put cameras back in his hands, sent him off for learning faux painting and training, raised the baby with my children and I primary in getting custodial orders granted. In short, Jim was the lesser of two evils and the child was safer with him. I asked him for a divorce in late 2002 and he responded three fold: 1. "OK. If you want your kids hurt.". 2. Demanded full monetary support to continue and hired an attorney when I would not cave all the way. Granted, she soon fired him as a client and he went on his own. This case has a parole eval report that comments on how revealing our divorce on record is. Did he divorce me as he is so fond of shouting since? Reality is that he beat me to the courthouse by 45 minutes. Granted that shouting has temporarily given him the ability to make his fabrications more colorful. 3. I took the Trustee advice and bifurcated from him in our adjoining bankruptcy. Eventually, when I finally knew I could get clear of him, my Motion to Intervene in his Eagle County custody case put a supervised structure around both the boy's parents. Put both of them into a rage. But did accomplish giving the child some measure of protection until 18. Which he would lose for many years when my children and I left. For Jim, his path in hooking up with these people since has been about ego, money and revenge. Jim did most of the grooming of Sarah and inserted himself and his fabrications strongly with Bascom and Bryan. None of those fabrications heard by the jury.
- Deborah Thomas: A vendor in Mesa County. Another one with very personal and vengeful motivations as I stopped her from her strong attempt to shake my company down for money. Mediation with attorneys settled it so that she was paid only exactly what she was owed. A small fraction of her demands. Did nothing to curb her personality. Became a very good friend of Marianne. Extensive presence in the prosecution background (never heard by the Jury) and continued pursuit/trolling along with Mitchell. Both especially towards my now deceased son and one of my daughters.
- Debra Streit: The only one I kind of feel sorry for. I fired her from outside contracting with our company because she struggled so badly to become what she had painted herself to be. What I utterly failed to see before even hiring her was the depth and level of spite her personality holds. There's a comment by Judge Metzger on record, when her claim was settled in his civil court, with full order on file that I had no wrongdoing of any kind, that he 'suspected" the claim from her came from personality 'rather than anything else'. There's a long and glaringly destructive to myself and my family trail of Debra's choices when hooking up with these other individuals in this case's records. None of which was dealt with by Conway/Goudy/Bascom or heard by the jury.
- Elsa Mitchell: Another one with personal vengeful in her motivations and a high tendency to publicly vocalize. Significant slander for years. She had gotten herself in very deep financially with a Basalt contractor named Ron LaGro. Not only did he bill her for the many months/hours she thought he was simply paying attention to her: he really messed up her materials measurements. There was never, on my part, the "keeping" of serious excess amounts of Waterworks tile that I got refunded for her. The excess refund bought and paid for the serious shortfall of hardwood flooring measurements that LaGro did. Her project would never have finished if not. But again, a personally slighted high ego person hooked up with Virgili, Thomas, Streit and J. Ryan; and continued until they accomplished deeply hurting myself and my family.
- Sarah Hyatt: Locals should remember Sarah from her earlier work in district court, as a staunch and vocal supporter of a teenager who accused a teacher (Bill Vetter) of misconduct. Claims deemed false with no merit but did, and were, publicly vocal enough (mostly from Sarah) to shatter his and his family's lives. Sarah is my oldest biological child. All her life her demand for attention tripped her up in nearly all her endeavors. No matter or thought as to cost to others. I handled every tantrum that I could, with the least harm as I could, to our lives. But, nothing seems to ever really satisfy Sarah. Not even her work behind scenes that the above individuals groomed her for. At the death of her brother, the FBI commented that they had the thought that he simply could not stand the enmity and discord that she stirred. We all felt that way about her. She became (and still cultivates) that enmity and now: it's time. She no longer gets a free pass simply because she is blood.
Let's talk about their work on the Internet:
We're not talking about simple complaints or reviews.
Over 5000 pages at the time, of everything from rip-off sites, to made up porn sites, professional sites and dating sites (even targeting my now deceased (and at the time very young and vulnerable) son and one of my daughters), to every viral social media site there is.
Even to this day it often continues with hate content. Some I have managed to get pulled down but without source IP's, passwords, emails; it's impossible to tackle that much. I comment elsewhere on this site that "Political Russians had nothing on these guys".
This world we live in is filled with people out there that live and thrive on trolling and pursuing people who create the like of what the people above not only started but with coordinated effort built as solid as unbreakable steel.
The Internet is forever. So, this one little blog can only stand up enough to plug a few holes.
To every one of you that did/do what you did/do; especially to my children:
Instead of just following the normal courses and paths of the justice system that was instead available to you; you literally raped and destroyed lives.
The Internet is forever.
The other thing that now lives forever is living with yourself.
There's a small poem that I think of often: "Today, I decided to forgive you. Not because you apologized or because you acknowledged the pain that you cause me (us) but because my (our) soul deserves peace." (Najwa Zebian)
I'll leave you with that forgiveness and the continued unfolding of facts through this site: until all the facts that clear are given.