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[narrator] in the suburbs
of nashville,
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A singer's husband
is brutally murdered.
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[ed] he had two gunshot wounds.
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One through the ear canal
and one in the back of his ear.
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He had been literally executed
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And left in the passenger seat
of a vehicle.
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[narrator] police learn
this isn't the first attempt
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To take his life.
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[ricky] he thought he had
a blowout,
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And then he started seeing
this blood everywhere.
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[ed] it was a small red car
that had pulled up beside him
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And shot him with a shotgun.
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[narrator] the investigation
uncovers an adulterous affair.
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She took a job
as a secretary for him.
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I think it was pretty obvious
to everybody
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That she was sleeping with him.
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[narrator] but a sting reveals
motives more complicated
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Than a love triangle
turned deadly.
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The life insurance policies
increased to $250,000.
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I think she got dollar signs
in her eyes
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And to hell
with everything else.
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[narrator] it's a crisp winter
morning in the rural town
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Of goodlettsville,
located fifteen miles
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North of nashville, tennessee.
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Goodlettsville is a small town
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That's been there
since probably the 1850s.
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It was kind of a railroad stop.
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The people are working class,
churchgoing type of folk.
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[narrator] on the morning
of December 20th, 1991,
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A commuter spots a man
slumped inside a vehicle
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By the side of the road,
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And immediately goes home
to notify police.
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My sergeant
and another detective
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Responded to the scene,
which is on kind of a rural road
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North of goodlettsville.
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[narrator] detectives approach
the vehicle with caution
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And quickly realize they have
a crime scene on their hands.
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It's fairly easy to see
that there's a dead guy
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In the car.
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The body was left
in the passenger seat
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Of a vehicle.
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He had two gunshot wounds,
one through the ear canal
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And one in the back of his ear,
on the left side.
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[rodger] if someone is shot
twice,
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Obviously he did not
commit suicide.
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He had not been there very long
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[ed] there was very little
evidence inside the car,
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Or very little evidence on him.
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There was nothing
that would suggest
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That he had been robbed.
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The victim had a wallet on him
and a driver's license
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In that wallet. And it gave
his address in goodlettsville.
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[narrator] the man's license
identifies him
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As 52-year-old
charles donald hurt.
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[rodger] obviously, someone
had been in the car.
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There was no indication
that his body had moved
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Or been jostled.
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And that led officers to believ
that he was shot in the car
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At that location.
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We knew that from the location
of the gunshot wounds
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And the position of the body,
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That don hurt had not had
a chance to move,
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To defend himself.
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Homicides in goodlettsville
are quite rare,
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And particularly
one where someone
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Has apparently
been literally executed.
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So, this was, uh,
from the very start
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All hands on deck.
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[narrator] after nashville
police collect
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What evidence they can,
detectives travel to don's home
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To speak with his wife,
sharon hurt.
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[chuck] they, of course,
had contacted her by phone
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And, and let her know
that he had been found.
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When she called me and told me
that don had been killed,
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I immediately went to her house
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She was stunned.
You know, accidents happen,
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Car wrecks happen,
murder's intentional.
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I don't know what would
motivate somebody
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To want to do that to don.
Something did not feel right.
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[narrator] don hurt,
as he was known to friends,
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Was born in nashville
on July 20th, 1939.
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[ricky] my daddy was born here,
and I think everybody
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In my family was born
right here.
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He was a momma's boy.
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He, uh, always kept everything
clean for his momma
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'cause his momma had five boys,
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And he was kinda the one
that took care
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Of stuff in the house.
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[narrator] don's love of family
never went away.
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And in his mid-twenties,
he got the chance
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To start one of his own.
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[ricky] my momma
was nancy kirby.
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I'm not real sure
when they really got married,
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But I think my momma was young,
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Had my sister,
and then she had me.
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We had just about anything
you wanted, you know.
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My daddy always make sure
we had something
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On the table to eat,
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And most of the time
he was cooking it.
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[susan] donald was a happy man.
He was jolly.
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He was always carrying on
and cutting up,
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And I think he was just happy
with life.
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[narrator] unfortunately,
the marriage only lasted
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Little more than a decade,
but the ending was amicable.
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[susan] even though
they had divorced
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They had remained friends
and talked.
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[narrator] with a good job
and a kind heart,
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Don didn't stay single for long
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I was, I don't know, 11, 12
when they got a divorce.
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My daddy met sharon.
I reckon they went together
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For about a month or two
or three
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And then they got married.
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My dad was, I think he was head
over heels for her.
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[narrator] sharon wiley was born
on March 30th, 1953,
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In frankfort, kentucky,
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One of eight children
raised on a family farm.
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Mom actually, grew up out on,
uh, georgetown road,
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Out there
at the old family house.
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[chuck] she has half-siblings
from her mom,
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And she has half-siblings
from her father.
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He had five children
besides her and marcie.
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Sharon and marcie were just
a year apart in their age.
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And they were besties, you know.
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Marcie was very studious,
very intellectual,
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Very driven to succeed.
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Sharon was intelligent,
but in a whole different way.
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She was people oriented.
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[narrator] as sharon entered
into adulthood,
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Her larger-than-life personalit
made her a natural performer,
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And she loved to sing,
especially gospel music.
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She loved to put
little groups together,
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Little ensembles,
and do different harmonies.
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[chuck] I remember
before she got into church,
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She would sing
in the dance halls,
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Kind of a grand ole opry
type of feel.
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Her focus was on gospel music,
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But she always wanted
to make it.
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[narrator] while pursuing music
came naturally to sharon,
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Matters of the heart did not.
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My father was between tours
in vietnam
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When they got together.
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He went back
for his second tour,
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And then a little later
I was born.
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My younger brother,
my half-brother,
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Was from a marriage that she ha
to a man named ron dearinger.
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They got together
right after I was born.
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[ron] mom and dad met.
She was a waitress
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And she caught dad's eye
is all I know,
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So, and it went from there.
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I would say in between '72
and '73, somewhere in there,
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Is when they actually
got married.
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Chucky is three years older
than me. I was born in '73.
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[narrator] ron and sharon
set out together
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To make her dreams come true.
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[music]
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[lela] music was her dream,
but it was also her comfort.
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Late '80s, they decided
they were going to buy
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A bus and kinda hit the road.
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My mother talked him
into quitting
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And moving to tennessee.
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She was gonna be a star.
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[narrator] but the realities
of pursuing a music career
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Put a strain on the marriage.
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[ron] we were living on the bus,
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And, you know, you can't have
a kid and a mom and dad
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Living on a bus. It was rough,
you know.
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And then dad, he just come
and asked me one night,
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You know, "do you want to stay,
or do you want to go with me?"
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"I'm going with you. Going back
to kentucky."
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So, we left.
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I was still young,
I was only 14, 15 years old.
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My other brother stayed down
with her, chuckie.
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The bus and the, the tension
over all the, the money;
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That was the beginning
of the end.
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There was a point where it was,
"okay, I'm done."
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I had had enough. And so, I went
into the army.
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Eventually, we heard that her
and ronnie had split.
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[narrator] after recording
one gospel album,
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Sharon's dream began to fade.
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[chuck] she made an album.
She worked hard at it.
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But it never went anywhere.
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[narrator] by her late thirties,
sharon's goals
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Still seemed impossible
to grasp,
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But she would get
another chance at love.
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[chuck] she was working
as a cashier
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At a grocery store in nashville
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Don was a truck driver.
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And he made deliveries
to that grocery store.
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And that's how they met.
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Don was "head over heels"
in love with my mother.
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Everything I saw out of that man
was complete devotion to her.
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He seemed like a great guy,
a really nice guy.
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He treated her well.
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[narrator] three years
into their marriage, in 1991,
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Their happily ever after
comes to an abrupt end
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As sharon learns
of her husband's violent death.
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[chuck] there was a detective,
or maybe two,
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That came to her house,
and I told them
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That she was not in any shape
to talk to them.
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And so, they were like, "okay,
can we come back tomorrow?"
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And I was like, "yeah,
let her calm down,
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Let her absorb this,
and then come back."
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[narrator] the next day,
sharon agrees to sit down
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With detectives and tell them
what she knows.
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She says the last time
she saw don was around 7pm
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On the 19th, the night before
his body was found.
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Sharon hurt told the police
that her husband had met up
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With someone at a flea market
to purchase a handgun.
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[narrator] sharon says don
never came home that evening,
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Prompting her to report
him missing
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The following morning.
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When he did not come back
at the appointed time,
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She became worried
over his absence.
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[narrator] police had just
started processing
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The missing person's report
when don's body was discovered.
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Sharon gives detectives
one more piece of information
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That piques their interest.
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[rodger] when the police
were interviewing sharon hurt,
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One of the key things
the police learned
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Is that he had been shot before.
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And, apparently,
she had no details whatsoever
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About the shooting
and what might have caused
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Someone to try to kill him.
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[narrator] sharon says
they were just trying
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To move on from the incident,
but detectives plan
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To dig into these claims
further.
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At the same time, an officer
is sent to the flea market
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To gather intel,
but comes up empty.
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It was such an unusual situation
from the start.
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From there, the police focused
on who had a motive
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To want don hurt dead.
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[narrator] coming up:
Detectives learn more
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About the previous attempt
on don's life.
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He knew if he didn't make it
to the rest area
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Up on top of the hill,
he'd probably be dead.
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[narrator] and his family
suspects someone close to home.
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We was trying to tell him,
"daddy look, wake up,
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Smell the roses. None of this
adds up right."
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