07/14/2026
"ONE DOWN! FOUR TO GO!"
Said the woman on the phone when she first called the family home of Marvin William Harris in July 1991 a week after Marvin's funeral service and although Marvin's parents didn't have "caller ID", the woman identified herself to Marvin's mother, June, as the "sister-in-law" of PPD Officer Jeffrey Dean Ginn.
The second (2nd) call from the woman was in March 1994 after the passing of Marvin's father, Bill, and it was June who answered again, but this time the woman said, "TWO DOWN, THREE TO GO"!
The third (3rd) call came in September 1995 after June also passed away but this time it was I, Marvin's sister who answered and when the woman said to me, "THREE DOWN, TWO TO GO"! I calmly told her that we had been praying for her and asking Father God to "turn her every which way but loose" for scripture says it is God's will "that no man perish, no one one" but as I began to pray for her on the phone, asking Father God to forgive her, she quickly hung up.
As the woman had never revealed her name and as my sister Jenniferlynn Martin and I didn't know how many "sister-in-laws" Jeff Ginn had, if any, there appeared to be no way of finding out who had actually called. However, yesterday we were made aware of a woman named "Rebekah Arizola", when she responded to my post on the PPD
Jeff Ginn memorial reel by writing that she is Ginn's "sister-in-law" and that she holds us personally responsible for his death, but when I politely responded to that claim, in which I mentioned those three "terroristic calls" to us threatening our lives, my response to her was soon deleted.
As for the other comments made by Ms. Arizola to me, she not only failed to get her facts straight she stated several questionable ones. She wrote that many neighbors had called the "authorities" to say that Marvin was "off his meds", but there is no mention of such statements in the 1991 police report and no documented record of such calls being received by PPD. Furthermore, how would anyone know what medicines their neighbors were prescribed or even if they were taking them or not, and how would the neighbors have had access to Marvin's medical records which are protected by the Hippocratic Oath?
As for Ms. Arizola's statement that we are responsible for Ginn's death, that is, to put it mildly, "barking up the wrong tree" or "getting the wrong end of the stick" for it was a situation Ginn surely and solely created by violating Marvin's civil rights. He told several people that morning, when he abandoned his morning assignment at Grandview Funeral Home as funeral procession motor es**rt, that he was going to go "mess with the re**rd". Per Mayor John Ray Harrison to us, Ginn was illegally hired as a favor to his father, that Ginn never attended the mandatory police academy and that he wasn't required to take the mandatory psychological test, the results of which would surely have prevented him from being being hired as, also per Mayor John Ray Harrison, Ginn was
about to be fired from PPD because of his often irrational and reckless behavior which endangered the lives of his co-workers, his constant disobeying of orders, his refusal to cease carrying his unauthorized personal name engraved "Lone Ranger" style C**t .45 six-shooter revolver, his refusal to take the annually required training classes (which is confirmed by his after death heavily doctored training record posted on this f/b page), and the numerous complaints by civilians of his unprofessional "napoleonic" treatment of them.
And as for Ms. Arizola's accusation that we didn't get Marvin the medical help she claims he needed, Marvin was an adult who had just turned 40 years old and although he had been hospitalized twice, he admitted himself both those times.The first was in 1987 when there was an argument between Marvin and me when I demanded he leave the home of our parents which he refused to do saying he has as much right as I did to be there. This resulted in my calling the police and although no charges were brought, the situation resulted in Marvin realizing he needed help in dealing with all the emotional and mental stress he was experiencing from the abuse he was suffering at the hands of several PPD officers which included Ginn but in particular another PPD officer named Mike Gibson.
The second self-admitted hospitalization was in 1989 when Marvin was again falsely arrested, this time for shooting guns off inside his house during the night, which he was not doing! It was after he was told by the arresting officers that there were men who wanted him dead, which terrorized him even more, that he knew he needed additional help to deal with the continued "bullying" and "harassing" of him by Gibson, Ginn and the others which had "stepped up" after his first hospital stay. Thankfully no charges were brought for this false arrest either as he was asleep the entire night, which we could attest to as we were outside his home all night and the search of his home by PPD in the morning failed to find that any guns were present. How we were able to be there was due to our mother receiving a phone call from an unidentified man telling us to immediately go to Marvin's home! We never have discovered his identity but whoever he was, we believe he saved Marvin's life because surely it was the intention of PPD to murder Marvin that night and say he committed su***de.
This terrorizing treatment of Marvin by PPD began in 1983 when Marvin was a "bouncer" at Gilley's and became a "Whistle Blower" when he reported to his employer, co-owner Sherwood Cryer, that he just witnessed PPD officer Mike Gibson and another PPD cop "rolling" a drunk customer in the parking lot. Not long afterwards Marvin was falsely arrested and severely beaten by Gibson and several other PPD officers with Gibson kicking him in the head causing Marvin to suffer severe headaches and to begin to hear tormenting "voices". When the judge dismissed the false charge of Marvin smoking a ma*****na cigarette, and publically chastised Gibson for the false arrest and the beating, Gibson told Marvin in front of our father and my eleven year old nephew that he was going to make Marvin's life "one of hell"! And he proceeded to do that for the next eight years with several PPD cops joining him, including Ginn, in constantly taunting and bullying Marvin, publically calling him "Crazy Marvin" and "Hey Re**rd" to his face, banging on the exterior walls of his house during the night, calling him 24/7 on his phone and chanting, "Dead boy! Dead boy! Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?!" This eventually caused Marvin to discontinue his phone service two weeks prior to Ginn illegally entering his backyard where Marvin was preparing his yet to be lit grill with peach tree debris (as stated by the police report confirming there was no ma*****na in it and no smoke coming from it) to cook for his lunch the two (2) pieces of meat found thawing on his kitchen counter.
And as for the two (2) hospitalizations, Marvin's diagnosis was "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" due to the initial false arrest and beating and the continued bullying and terrorizing of Marvin by Gibson, Ginn and the others and although there are "meds", used to treat PTSD, we could find none that were prescribed for Marvin, and the autopsy toxicology report states that the only "stimulant" found in Marvin's body was "caffeine". No ma*****na or any other drugs, "legal or illegal," were present, and his medical records, which we have, state that Marvin was no threat to himself or to anyone else.
And finally, as to Ms. Arizola's claim about seeing a TV interview in which I said that Marvin held a knife to my throat, that is a false statement. Marvin never did that and I have never said that he did. I did mention the argument we had in 1987 in the only interview Jen and I gave with our parents which was on "Good Morning Houston" with Host Don Nelson and to confirm that was not said, I offered to let Ms. Arizola view the tape I have of it, but instead of taking me up on that offer, my comment was deleted!
But, Jen and I sincerely thank Ms. Arizola for responding and for giving us another chance to tell what really happened on July 10-11, 1991 and to also let her know that on Friday July 12, 1991, I received a vision of Jeff Ginn welcoming Marvin into Heaven! Per a Baptist pastor friend of ours who knew Jeff, Jeff had become a Christian as a teenager but had backslidden when he became a police officer and Marvin prayed with me to accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior two (2) months before he was murdered ex*****on style by a SWAT bullet to the back of his head as he lay sleeping.
Since seeing the vision, many others have told me that the Lord has shown them also that both Jeff and Marvin are in Heaven which continues to bring us much peace and comfort. Therefore our continued prayer for Ms. Arizola (and the sister-in-law who called us) that she too will find the same for without forgiveness there is no hope of the promise of eternal life as taught by the gospel, the teachings of Jesus and the Ten Commandments of which the greatest one is to "love thy neighbor".