Billy Bean while Linda was pregnant, but separated when Billy was six months old. Linda married Ed Kovac, a police officer, and they had five children together. Bean attended Santa Ana High School, and won a state championship with the school's baseball team. He enrolled at Loyola Marymount University on an athletic scholarship to play college baseball for the Loyola Marymount Lions. After his junior year, the New York Yankees selected Bean in the 24th round of the 1985 MLB Draft. Though the Yankees offered Bean a $55,000 signing bonus, Bean followed through with his promise to return to Loyola Marymount for
Billy Downer Billy Downer Billy Downer attended Pretoria Boys High School and then graduated in law at Stellenbosch University in 1979, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, where he obtained the BCL degree. He joined the South African Department of Justice (the forerunner of the National Prosecuting Authority) in October 1982. Since then he has focused in prosecuting corruption and other high-profile cases. One of his more successful cases was the State vs Shaik trial. His investigations, which led to the discovery of a handwritten encrypted fax in French promising an amount of R500,000