[3] Jessome was a close friend of another tow truck driver, George "Crash" Kriarakis, who recruited him into the Bandidos.
[4] Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of The Toronto Star, wrote Jessome was "laid-back and easy-going" man who spoke with "a high-pitched, screechy Maritime accent".
[6] Jessome was very close to James "Ripper" Fullaer, the mentor to the Toronto Bandido chapter who also dying of cancer, and spent much time comforting him in the hospital.
[9] The Bandidos national president Giovanni "Boxer" Muscedere agreed that a meeting would be held at Kellestine's farmhouse to discuss the allegations.
[17] At the trial of his killers in 2009, Jessome's son, Richard, resembled his father, which caused Kellestine to be shocked in the courtroom when he first saw him as if he had seen a ghost.
[20] In his 2009 book The Fat Mexican, the private detective Alex Caine alleged Jamie Flanz was driving Jessome's tow truck and had stolen a massive quantity of cocaine from the Hells Angels.
[21] In turn, Caine alleged that there was a conspiracy involving both the American leaders of both the Hells Angels and Bandidos that led to the Shedden massacre.
[24] Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of The Toronto Star, agreed with her, writing the Bandidos had "grandiose rituals and overblown mythology" that were "more the stuff of fantasy and macho escapism than reality" that strongly appealed to weak, insecure men.
[24] Edwards wrote that most of the victims of the massacre such as Jessome were the type of weak men who were attracted to the Bandidos less because they were criminals and more out of a desire to appear important and powerful.
[25] Edwards wrote that Jessome was a pseudo-gangster, describing him as a man who affected a gangster "attitude" as he took to strutting around in his Bandidos bikers' vest as he believed that this made him into someone powerful, but that he rarely committed any crimes.
To have that level of violence fought for absolutely nothing, except being in the pecking order of people who wear a cartoon character on their back.
Just bizarre...Some of (the victims) were pretty nice guys, and my feeling is that if they hadn't gone to the farm that night, within five years they would have just wandered out of it again.