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Thank you.

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My wedding present never made you very
happy.

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Wedding present?

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That's a laugh.

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You know how I did it, Will?

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Just five seconds after we left the
preacher, he hands me a deed.

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To heaven, he says.

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And I thought I was going to have a real
honeymoon in Las Vegas.

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Now, Yuli, you know we had a couple of
days. Every penny, every penny he spent,

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every penny he ever owned on this
godforsaken pilot. Yuli, you said you

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simple life. Just the two of us. Honey,
I'm sorry. I know it's my fault. It's

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all my fault.

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Well, it's been three years now, and
I've tried.

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I've tried, haven't I?

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Well, it just isn't going to work.

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Please, honey, listen to Will.

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He's got a buyer on the hook.

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Stop writing those shilly -shally
letters to that man's lawyer and pick up

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and tell him we'll make a deal, okay,
honey?

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All right.

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The price isn't right.

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You got any other offers?

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Anybody else with money enough to buy a
hunting lodge this far away from

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nowhere? Grover, you don't make a deal
with this guy's lawyer. You are going to

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lose this place.

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What are you worried about?

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Parking here long, stranger?

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Oh, I'm sorry, ma 'am. I seem to have
your path blocked.

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Will you all forgive me?

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Sure. Get that aircraft carrier out of
the way.

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I'll just do that, ma 'am, right away.

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I've been fascinated by this country,
the natural beauty.

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It's prettier than Texas.

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Say, you all wouldn't happen to know who
owns this gorgeous piece of property,

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would you?

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Doggone, this sure is a fascinating
country.

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Well, that's the way I saw it when I
bought it, Mr. Barcliffe. Kind of land I

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always wanted, too.

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Good land. Rugged land.

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Not like that fancy stuff them real
estate people trying to show me up

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Then, uh, you are in the market?

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Yes, ma 'am.

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That is, if the right place comes along.

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Kind of like this place.

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Of course, I don't suppose you folks
would be busting your leg trying to get

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of it.

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Oh, well, Mr. Bartlett, you bring up a
touchy subject between me and my

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How's that, Mrs. Johnson?

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Oh, well, Mr. Huff here, he's in real
estate and an old friend.

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And I'm afraid he's been bringing offers
for the property to my husband behind

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my back.

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Well, as a matter of fact, I do have
four or five clients who are anxious to

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up top money for a parcel of land like
this.

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Would I stand a chance at the bidding,
so to speak, Mr. Johnson?

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If not, you might as well not show me
the rest of the place.

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I'll show her around some more if you
want. Fine.

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Why don't we do this?

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Why don't you drive us back to the
house, me and Will, and I'll cook up a

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lunch while Grover takes you on the 40
-cent tour. How about that?

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Oh, now, ma 'am, I hate to impose on you
like that. Oh, don't be silly.

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I cook a full -course lunch every day,
Mr. Bartlett.

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You finished?

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Will you simmer down to a boil, please?
Why do I have to write up an offer when

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you don't even know what the man's going
to buy beats me?

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Will, he has been back here three times
for crying out loud.

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Don't you know a goer when you see one?

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This guy is ready.

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But what price do I put in? How do I
write up an offer without putting in

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We're turning down an offer from a man
in Los Angeles who wants to do... Dear,

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why don't you put the stakes on?

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You do them so much better than I do.

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Please, honey.

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Charred, blood -rare, and heavy on the
smoke for me.

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And what was that figure Mr. Johnson
said you turned down?

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$150 ,000, Will.

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Or was it $175 ,000? I never did know.

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$175 ,000, I...

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Guess it was.

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$175 ,000.

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I can't possibly go that high.

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Well, then I guess we stay here.

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Doggone, I want this layout, too.

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That kind of puts a crimp in my plans.

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What do you intend to do with the
property, Mr. Bartlett?

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Well, I just intend living on the
property, realizing a boyhood dream.

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What's a few extra thousand to realize a
boyhood dream?

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Guess you got something there, all
right, Mrs. Johnson.

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Which puts me in mind of what my dear
old saint of daddy used to say. Son, he

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said, man don't live forever.

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But it ain't no good being the richest
one in the cemetery.

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175 ,000.

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You know, maybe I ought to pay some
heed.

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Maybe I could go that high.

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We turned that down, Mr. Barcliffe.

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Remember?

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Doggone. I've been driving so many hard
bargains all my life, it's just second

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nature to me. But honestly, on my saint
of daddy's grave...

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175 ,000 is as high as I can go.

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I wrote down on a piece of paper what
you really think is a fair price, Mr.

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Barclay. I don't really know what's
going on in that tycoon's brain of

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What's this?

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Offer to buy the property.

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Am I right?

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Isn't that really the top figure you set
for yourself?

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No, little lady.

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That is not the top figure I set for
myself.

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I set $175 ,000.

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I'll tell you what I'll do.

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If we can arrange the financing, go on,
I'll stretch a point and buy that

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boyhood dream of mine.

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For $200 ,000?

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For $200 ,000.

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$200 ,000?

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For a piece of property your client
almost bought for, what was it, $50

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$52 ,500.

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I don't get it. Fifty -odd thousand is
all a place is worth, if that much.

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What did you find out about this $200
,000 buyer?

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Well, he's known in some of the best
places in the West, and he shows signs

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having money.

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But he's here, he's there, he's
everywhere. He just doesn't seem to have

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roots, if you know what I mean.

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You mean you don't see a man like Mr.
Barcliffe making good a $200 ,000

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purchase? Not a chance.

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What do I write to Mr. Anadon?

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He was so anxious that you purchased the
property before he got back from

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Europe, Perry.

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Don't write our client anything, Dylan.

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But if there's even a chance of this
Barclay deal going through, and Mr.

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says he thinks it will go through any
time, so... Yeah, we're the ones that

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should... No, no, it's my party. I
absolutely insist. Come on, boys. We'll

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a good one.

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I should have my head examined.

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Fooling around with a help.

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Isn't that why you phoned me, asked me
to rush out here?

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He catches you making passes, you'll get
your head handed to you.

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Come on now, baby, he's nothing.

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You're passing up a genuine Texas oil
millionaire.

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What about the dentist?

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Oh, the dentist. I still feel like I
have a horseshoe in my mouth.

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Horseshoe's good luck, that's it.

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Oh, don't worry, I got the extra bridge.

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I paid for it, I want to see it.

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Beautiful.

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Now, come on, Eula.

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Why did you want to see me?

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Hi, Mr. Barcliff.

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Glad you came out.

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Soon as I find Les, maybe we can check
the stock over today.

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I saw Les about a half hour ago out by
the barn.

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I'll be right out, Grover. Right with
you.

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Anytime.

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I'll meet you in town this evening. We
can be in Arizona before morning.

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We can what?

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You mean you two have already found a
body so soon? Mm -hmm. At Hills, back at

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Flagstaff. Some old prospect, a friend
of Grover's.

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He just passed away. The body's still in
the shack. Nobody knows a thing.

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Even the Indian who found it was happy.
Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute.

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I mean, what about this guy? His size,
his shape? Unless he's... Listen, when

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that beautiful extra bridge work of
yours is found in the wreckage, don't

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so much.

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Les, Grover's looking for you.

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That so?

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Say, I sure hope you all stay on and
work for me.

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Yes, sir, I do.

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Waddy's in there?

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Mm -hmm. Make you nervous?

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Here. Have a belt, sir.

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What's the matter?

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I heard something in the shack.

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Don't be ridiculous. Come on, help me
with the gasoline.

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There's somebody in there.

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Somebody alive.

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You're seeing things.

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You know it too, don't you, Hila?

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I thought you told me that the man we're
supposed to use is already dead.

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Dad?

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Well, don't worry about it. He'll be
dead soon enough.

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He what?

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I don't want to have anything to do with
any killing.

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So it's a dirty word. So what?

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Listen to me.

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Eula, you listen.

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I've pulled every sort of con game there
is in my life.

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Sure, I've been a big rich Texan for you
too, but I've done a good job, haven't

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I? I even had a tooth jerked out so I
could have bridge work that could be

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masked. So I could put it in some form.
You've been paid, haven't you?

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Not murder. I won't have any part of it.
Stay away from me. Stay where you are.

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I'll warn you.

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Small down payment, only a few dollars a
month.

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I got more. The police at Flagstaff
found a batch of them. They must have

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thrown out of the trunk of Barcliffe's
car as it rolled over.

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I... I wondered why Barcliffe didn't
want to give us much cash at the start.

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He asked me and never intended to make
another payment.

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All Barcliffe wanted was to have title
to the property for a short while.

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He could make a quick killing and take
off.

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With you holding the bag.

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Whatever Barcliffe intended to do is...

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Water under the bridge now.

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Point is, when he died, title to that
property passed to his estate.

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So it's the estate that owes the balance
of the $200 ,000.

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Mr. Mason, Eula doesn't know I'm here.

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She's all raw nerves these days, like a
bomb ready to explode, ever since Mark

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Cliff died.

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I suppose it's because for a while
there, it looked like we were going to

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rich, and now we're going to be poor
again.

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Anyway, I... I figured maybe I could
save something for her if your client

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still... But I just explained.

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The place is no longer yours to sell.
The property belongs to Barker's estate.

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But if nobody makes any more payments?

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Well, the public administrator will
probably enter into it.

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It might be his treatment.

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Anyway, there'd have to be a foreclosure
before the property could revert to you

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and Mr. Hupp as the mortgage holders.

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I suppose that'd take forever.

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Not necessarily.

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If someone who understands these things
does a little pushing here, a little

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expediting there.

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Mr. Mason, I'd like to live in a place
like that forever, but, well, it's half

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Eula's, and if I could make her happy
somehow... Mr. Johnson, my client is not

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only wealthy, but he's also a little
eccentric.

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He's had his heart set on your place,
and I was rash enough to assure him I

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could get it for him. Well, couldn't
you...

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I mean, Mr. Mason, could you maybe...
That's what I'm saying.

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I don't think there'd be any conflict of
interest if I help you get what you

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want, too.

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You worked like you were supposed to
instead of hanging around at her foot

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some creepy cat every time I turn
around.

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I do what your husband tells me to.

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Mostly.

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Miss Gilpin, I... He's back, you know.

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What? On the house.

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You want to check the mare. She's almost
ready to fall.

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He wasn't due back till tomorrow.

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How'd you know to pick him up? He called
from downstate last night.

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I answered the phone.

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You weren't home.

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He said they'd be getting in this
morning for me to come get him.

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They? Some friends came up with him.

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Somebody named Perry Mason, some lawyer,
and a guy named Drake, a detective.

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And what was it that you... Yes, yes,
the coat I wrote you about.

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I wanted to be sure the mink was
properly matched for my length.

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Of course I'm going to buy it.

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I may buy the ermine stole you had
advertised, too, and if you don't think

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going to pay cash... Yes, that's better.

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Well, I'm very busy right now.

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I'll be in San Francisco in a week or
two to do lots and lots of shopping.

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No, I'd rather you didn't write.

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All right, thank you. Goodbye.

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What about liquor? Do you drink much?

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Son, did you ever see him drunk?

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Don't think so, no.

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Eula? Yes, sir.

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Rains it pours. Not a stranger asking
questions.

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Mother.

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I told you, those friends of your
husband's, that lawyer and detective.

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Now this one.

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He's asking questions, too.

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That's him.

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About that man named Nelson Barkley.

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Cousin, I gather.

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Well, Mr. Edmund, if you want to take a
look at that file.

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Just me, Sheriff.

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Mr. Drake has some work to do.

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I have.

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You can stay in town if you like, Les.
Wait a minute, ma 'am. You forgot your

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purse.

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The last time. Why do we have to see
Will today?

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He just called, I told you. I don't know
anything about it. No, you never know

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anything about anything.

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I have a headache.

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I told you I wasn't feeling well.

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Beulah, darling, I just want you to be
happy. That's all I'm doing is trying

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to... Oh, give me some daisies.

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Well, well, well.

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Here we are all together. Mr. and Mrs.
Grover Johnson, meet Mr.

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Weplow. And Eula, you will never guess
who he is. Here we've been thinking all

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along that Nelson Bartlett didn't have
any relatives. Well, Grover, shake hands

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with Mr.

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Bartlett's cousin.

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Hi, Mr. Weplow.

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Howdy.

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Folks, I was deeply disturbed when I
heard about Nelson's accident.

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What's the matter, boys?

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My tie uncrooked or something?

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My name is Perry Mason.

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I'm an attorney.

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And this is Mr. Paul Drake.

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Attorney? For whom?

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If you have a moment, I'll be glad to
explain.

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Your name is Jeffrey, that'll be it.
Just explain why Drake here has been

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following me, that's all.

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Now look here, Mr. Jeffrey.

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When anyone dies who owns property,
there always seems to be a gathering.

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A gathering like flies or like vultures.

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I didn't say either one, but... Never
mind, Mr. Mason. I won't ask you which

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you are, but you want to know which one
I am, right?

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Right.

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You see, my only interest here is in
clearing the air around the land deal,

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which... Sure, I know. Me, I'm just a
working stiff, too.

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Statewide mutual.

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Insurance?

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Investigator. What the heck have you
been snooping around for?

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00:18:36,670 --> 00:18:38,550
Well, I've been trying to save my
company some money.

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I wired them a full report two hours
ago.

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I figured they'd better make a final
decision.

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You mean Nelson Barcliffe's had life
insurance?

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I mean exactly that.

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As far as I could find... Yes, sir.

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Nelson Barcliffe had a $200 ,000
insurance policy on his life.

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In the event of his death, it was
payable to his estate.

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When was this policy taken out?

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Approximately six months ago.

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Mr. Jeffries, as chief investigator for
your insurance company, I take it you

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thoroughly checked out this claimant. I
did. The police and coroner felt there

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was no question that this was an
accidental death.

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And certainly none that the deceased was
the insured.

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Certainly none, Mr. Jeffers? Well, in
accidents of this nature, particularly

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where there's fire, we do our own
investigating, too.

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Bartlett has some dental work, for
instance.

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A single tooth missing.

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But we found not only a fixed bridge in
his mouth that matched with the records

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of some work he had done four years ago,
but there was also a spare bridge among

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his effects.

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And so you recommended the claim be
paid?

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No, I did not.

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At least not right away.

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Barcliffe was so obviously nothing more
than a small -time con man, a land

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promoter of some sort.

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But unfortunately, his life insurance
was in perfect order. We had no choice

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to pay the $200 ,000.

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Thank you, Mr. Jeffries.

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You're a witness, Mr. Mason. No
question.

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Quite in one minute, kiss in the next.

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That was the Johnson's.

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00:20:02,780 --> 00:20:04,120
What did they fight about?

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00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:08,480
How he'd taken some money he'd had
before he was married and just wasted it

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worthless dirt and rock.

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and him always apologizing. And her
hollering back how he'd buried her a

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miles from nowhere.

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00:20:17,350 --> 00:20:21,450
In three years, didn't he ever let her
leave the ranch?

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00:20:21,830 --> 00:20:25,930
Oh, once a year or so, she'd run off to
San Francisco.

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He'd fret and fume, get ready to start
after her, but she'd always come back.

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00:20:31,590 --> 00:20:34,750
Now, what would happen then? Start right
in kissing again. Those were the only

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times I ever heard him agree to sell.

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00:20:36,630 --> 00:20:38,470
Now, you specifically heard him...

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00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:40,060
agreed to sell the ranch.

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If they could figure out some way to
make real dough by selling.

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00:20:44,740 --> 00:20:49,220
Of course, when the Texans showed up,
that was it.

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00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:51,780
By the Texans, you mean Nelson Barclay?

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00:20:51,980 --> 00:20:54,580
Yeah. They really went to work on him
good.

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00:20:55,900 --> 00:20:56,900
Especially you.

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00:20:57,120 --> 00:20:58,540
How so, Mr. Gilpin?

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00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:02,820
Oh, I saw him for a little bit longer,
maybe 10 or 15 minutes. I figured maybe

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things would be a little bit smoother by
then.

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00:21:06,780 --> 00:21:08,080
When I got up on the...

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00:21:08,490 --> 00:21:14,990
Front porch, I heard this kind of awful
gasping, choking sound coming from

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inside. It was Eula trying to say
something. And there was this thud.

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00:21:21,670 --> 00:21:25,870
I mean, like she was fallen, maybe.

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00:21:26,210 --> 00:21:27,750
Did you hear anyone else?

360
00:21:28,030 --> 00:21:29,210
Well, yes.

361
00:21:29,530 --> 00:21:31,830
Only I didn't hear Eula anymore.

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00:21:32,890 --> 00:21:34,850
There was this little scuffing sound.

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00:21:35,670 --> 00:21:36,670
And then...

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00:21:37,260 --> 00:21:43,660
He started sobbing, like crying almost.
He was trying to talk to her.

365
00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:45,540
By him, you mean the defendant?

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00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:52,960
Yes, he said, Eula, I didn't mean it.
You're just scared, that's all.

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00:21:53,620 --> 00:21:56,600
Eula, I can't let you spoil everything,
he said.

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Eula, no.

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00:21:58,720 --> 00:21:59,720
Eula,

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00:22:00,100 --> 00:22:01,380
Eula, don't die.

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00:22:01,940 --> 00:22:06,220
That's when I lit off that front porch
looking for help, when he said, don't

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die. Eula, he was saying. Eula.

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00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,540
Still holding her body there in his
arms.

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00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,700
You could see the bruise marks on her
throat where she'd been choked.

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You could see the blood on her head
where it had smashed into the corner of

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fireplace hearth and killed her.

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00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,640
Yes, when we arrived, Grover Johnson was
still pleading.

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00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,620
But Eula was already dead.

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00:22:31,780 --> 00:22:33,540
You went back to Hupp's house?

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00:22:33,820 --> 00:22:35,320
From the tavern? Yeah.

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00:22:36,140 --> 00:22:37,510
But... Not right away.

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00:22:38,350 --> 00:22:42,810
When I got out in the street, I felt a
little dizzy. I choose to drink here,

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00:22:42,810 --> 00:22:44,130
I better walk it off for a little while.

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00:22:44,550 --> 00:22:45,550
For how long?

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00:22:46,310 --> 00:22:47,930
I don't know how long.

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00:22:48,150 --> 00:22:51,370
Look, all I know is that when I walked
in that house, she was already lying

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00:22:51,370 --> 00:22:52,370
there on the floor.

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00:22:52,490 --> 00:22:53,810
I didn't choke her.

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00:22:54,050 --> 00:22:55,170
I didn't throw her down.

390
00:22:55,450 --> 00:22:56,670
But you were pleading with her.

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00:22:56,910 --> 00:22:58,290
That's when I saw she was dead.

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00:23:00,430 --> 00:23:04,490
Look, I don't know what I said, but I
swear I didn't say any of those things

393
00:23:04,490 --> 00:23:05,490
Will Hutt told about.

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00:23:05,850 --> 00:23:06,850
What was lying?

395
00:23:06,930 --> 00:23:07,930
I hope not.

396
00:23:08,690 --> 00:23:09,690
You hope what?

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00:23:09,950 --> 00:23:11,070
That Hup wasn't lying.

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00:23:11,370 --> 00:23:12,690
Perry, is this some kind of a joke?

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00:23:12,990 --> 00:23:14,230
I was never more serious, Paul.

400
00:23:14,690 --> 00:23:18,110
This business makes sense only if Hup
was telling the complete and unvarnished

401
00:23:18,110 --> 00:23:19,870
truth. I sure don't understand that.

402
00:23:20,430 --> 00:23:22,470
That's probably because you have a
toothache.

403
00:23:22,790 --> 00:23:23,790
I have a what?

404
00:23:23,890 --> 00:23:24,890
Let's see.

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00:23:26,170 --> 00:23:27,170
Friday night.

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00:23:27,350 --> 00:23:30,110
Only tomorrow morning in his office,
probably.

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00:23:31,070 --> 00:23:33,190
You'll have to scramble if you're going
to get to that dentist.

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00:23:40,669 --> 00:23:46,410
Mr. Barkley came in to see me, oh, I'd
say six to eight weeks ago. But all he

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00:23:46,410 --> 00:23:48,370
wanted was a spare punty. A spare what?

410
00:23:48,590 --> 00:23:49,590
A false tooth.

411
00:23:49,710 --> 00:23:51,330
He had one missing right here.

412
00:23:51,690 --> 00:23:53,630
But he was already wearing a bridge, of
course.

413
00:23:54,210 --> 00:23:55,530
Nice -looking porcelain job.

414
00:23:56,250 --> 00:23:57,470
Porcelain cap to hold it in.

415
00:23:57,690 --> 00:23:59,430
But wasn't it a fixed bridge? That's
right.

416
00:23:59,650 --> 00:24:00,730
Well, then why would he need a spare?

417
00:24:01,190 --> 00:24:02,850
Well, that's not all unusual.

418
00:24:03,130 --> 00:24:06,990
Lots of people get concerned about
breaking a bridge or losing it.

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00:24:07,490 --> 00:24:10,070
His great concern, as I recall, was the
fact that...

420
00:24:10,270 --> 00:24:13,250
He spent all his time out in the cattle
ranches, and he was afraid he couldn't

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00:24:13,250 --> 00:24:15,850
count on the local veterinarian to fill
that hole in his mouth.

422
00:24:16,490 --> 00:24:17,490
Oh.

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00:24:19,390 --> 00:24:23,130
I'm sorry if that's not the answer you
wanted, but I think I told the

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00:24:23,130 --> 00:24:26,310
authorities everything. Doctor, when you
identified the spare bridge that you

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00:24:26,310 --> 00:24:29,530
made, did they also show you the one
that was found in his mouth, the four

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00:24:29,530 --> 00:24:30,089
-old one?

427
00:24:30,090 --> 00:24:32,430
Yes, the insurance company was curious
about that, too.

428
00:24:32,750 --> 00:24:36,450
But there was no mistake about it. It
was the identical formation I copied.

429
00:24:37,370 --> 00:24:38,810
How many years did you say?

430
00:24:39,110 --> 00:24:42,680
Four. He had the original made in
Sacramento, I believe, four years ago.

431
00:24:42,940 --> 00:24:45,080
No, no, Mr. Drake, that's not right.

432
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:46,520
Well, how come?

433
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,380
Well, with porcelain, you can tell.

434
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,360
That original bridge of his was
practically brand new.

435
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,040
Not more than six months old, I'm sure
of it.

436
00:24:56,300 --> 00:24:58,500
Doctor, you've just struck a nerve.

437
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:04,360
We contend that the three of them,
Grover Johnson, Eula Johnson, and Nelson

438
00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:08,680
Barcliffe, conspired to defraud an
insurance company.

439
00:25:09,470 --> 00:25:10,970
of $200 ,000.

440
00:25:11,690 --> 00:25:16,890
The extra denture suggests that someone
else, other than Nelson Barcliffe, may

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00:25:16,890 --> 00:25:20,290
have been planned as the occupant of the
wrecked car in Arizona.

442
00:25:20,610 --> 00:25:26,430
But three conspirators became two
conspirators when Barcliffe himself was

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00:25:26,430 --> 00:25:27,430
from the wreckage.

444
00:25:27,970 --> 00:25:29,570
Accident? Murder?

445
00:25:29,770 --> 00:25:30,770
Who knows?

446
00:25:30,910 --> 00:25:35,630
But we do know that two conspirators
became one too many.

447
00:25:36,060 --> 00:25:41,880
when in his own words, Grover Johnson
told his wife, I can't let you spoil

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00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:46,700
everything. Your Honor, the prosecution
moves that the defendant, Grover

449
00:25:46,700 --> 00:25:50,700
Johnson, be bound over to superior court
for trial on a charge of murder.

450
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:52,320
Mr. Mason?

451
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:58,840
If the court please, we should like to
present a defense at this time.

452
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:03,080
to the transcript, you testified that
the decedent, Eula Johnson, said he...

453
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,820
He finds out you're making passes,
you'll get your head handed to you.

454
00:26:07,340 --> 00:26:08,420
That is what you said.

455
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:09,619
What Eula said.

456
00:26:09,620 --> 00:26:10,620
Of course.

457
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,720
You went on to say, then he came in.

458
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:15,260
Mr. Johnson, the defendant.

459
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,880
That's right. That's exactly what I
said. Is that exactly what you meant?

460
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:21,980
What? He finds out.

461
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:23,320
He came in.

462
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:25,160
Mr. Gilpin.

463
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,760
Was it your intent that the court accept
both he's as referring to the same

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00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,960
person? Why, sure, to Grover. Who else?

465
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,340
Suppose after Mrs. Johnson had said, he
finds out, I walked into that room.

466
00:26:37,540 --> 00:26:41,000
Your testimony would still be, he finds
out, he came in.

467
00:26:42,020 --> 00:26:44,480
But would you claim both he's referred
to Perry Mason?

468
00:26:44,820 --> 00:26:45,820
Of course not.

469
00:26:46,180 --> 00:26:49,580
Obviously, from what you overheard,
Nelson Barcliffe and Eula Johnson were

470
00:26:49,580 --> 00:26:54,140
conspirators. The he Eula Johnson
mentioned also, obviously, was a third

471
00:26:54,140 --> 00:26:57,900
conspirator. But why did you believe
that Grover Johnson was the third

472
00:26:57,900 --> 00:26:58,900
conspirator?

473
00:26:59,220 --> 00:27:01,280
I guess I didn't know it for a fact, no
sir.

474
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,240
Now let me get my position clear here.

475
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,460
I have never claimed to be an heir of
Nelson Barcliffe.

476
00:27:06,780 --> 00:27:08,840
I didn't even say I was a direct
relative.

477
00:27:09,140 --> 00:27:13,700
But you did come into the town with the
idea that you might somehow benefit from

478
00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:15,080
Barcliffe's death, is that right?

479
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:19,600
Well, yes, I suppose. I knew he didn't
have any other relatives, so... I think

480
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,440
the court understands your position, Mr.
Wetbow.

481
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:23,720
Now tell us.

482
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:30,460
When was the last time you saw Barclift?
He dropped by the place to visit the

483
00:27:30,460 --> 00:27:33,140
wife once, oh, five or six years ago.

484
00:27:33,940 --> 00:27:37,800
I guess that's the last we really ever
knew of him. Did you or your wife ever

485
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,580
have a reason to try to locate him after
that time?

486
00:27:39,780 --> 00:27:45,080
Well, there was a letter we received
last year asking his whereabouts, asking

487
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:50,560
him to testify as a witness to somebody
hurt in a revolving door in Sacramento,

488
00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:51,679
I believe it was.

489
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:52,680
Sacramento?

490
00:27:52,910 --> 00:27:54,950
This letter was to your wife, I take it?

491
00:27:55,150 --> 00:28:00,270
Yes. I answered saying that she had just
died and that there wasn't any more

492
00:28:00,270 --> 00:28:05,510
family. As far as I knew, Nelson
Barcliffe just plain disappeared.

493
00:28:06,010 --> 00:28:07,010
I see.

494
00:28:07,810 --> 00:28:14,370
Now, Mr. Weplo, do you recall my showing
you a picture of the local sheriff and

495
00:28:14,370 --> 00:28:15,730
Nelson Barcliffe taken together?

496
00:28:16,130 --> 00:28:19,970
Yes. Do you recall identifying the man
with the sheriff as Nelson Barcliffe?

497
00:28:20,170 --> 00:28:21,670
Yes, sure. That's what I said.

498
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:25,260
But you were lying, of course, weren't
you? No. I mean, I knew who the sheriff

499
00:28:25,260 --> 00:28:29,500
was. And I certainly had no reason to
believe that the other man in the

500
00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:30,459
wasn't Nelson.

501
00:28:30,460 --> 00:28:31,500
Why not, Mr. Wetlow?

502
00:28:32,100 --> 00:28:33,340
Now, let me ask you again.

503
00:28:34,580 --> 00:28:37,140
When was the last time you saw
Barcliffe?

504
00:28:37,980 --> 00:28:39,840
I never met my wife's cousin.

505
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:44,400
I'm afraid I never laid eyes on
Barcliffe in my life.

506
00:28:44,620 --> 00:28:49,460
So the other guy was... Could have been
anybody else?

507
00:28:50,780 --> 00:28:54,290
Yes. I am the treasurer of the Westfield
Credit Union.

508
00:28:54,770 --> 00:29:00,270
And as such, yes, I did grant a loan for
$200 four years ago to a Mr.

509
00:29:00,470 --> 00:29:04,350
Nelson Barclift. Were you sure that he
was really Mr. Nelson Barclift? Of

510
00:29:04,350 --> 00:29:06,370
course. He had every credential.

511
00:29:07,030 --> 00:29:08,170
Real person, all right.

512
00:29:08,450 --> 00:29:10,030
I'm not good at remembering faces.

513
00:29:10,630 --> 00:29:12,550
I couldn't tell you what he looked like,
for instance.

514
00:29:12,910 --> 00:29:14,510
Can you tell us what happened to that
loan?

515
00:29:14,730 --> 00:29:15,730
Never was paid.

516
00:29:16,190 --> 00:29:18,010
Got a job in South America someplace.

517
00:29:18,270 --> 00:29:19,970
We tried to contact him, but no luck.

518
00:29:20,510 --> 00:29:21,790
We tried other places, too.

519
00:29:22,510 --> 00:29:25,090
Looked like Mr. Barcliffe had just
completely disappeared.

520
00:29:25,930 --> 00:29:27,830
I had an idea that he was probably dead.

521
00:29:28,650 --> 00:29:30,030
Nobody even had a record of that.

522
00:29:30,250 --> 00:29:31,250
Thank you, Mr. Morgan.

523
00:29:31,530 --> 00:29:32,750
Just one more question.

524
00:29:33,670 --> 00:29:36,430
Why did you loan him $200 four years
ago?

525
00:29:36,790 --> 00:29:38,050
He wanted to get his teeth fixed.

526
00:29:38,410 --> 00:29:39,630
He'd had one knocked out.

527
00:29:40,190 --> 00:29:41,190
Needed a bridge.

528
00:29:41,410 --> 00:29:43,670
He got one from some dentist over there
in Sacramento.

529
00:29:44,030 --> 00:29:47,410
Yes. I read the affidavit from the
dentist in Sacramento.

530
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,140
And I don't care if he does say it looks
like his work, if it does fit his guy.

531
00:29:52,700 --> 00:29:57,720
The bridge I matched, the bridge I saw
in Mr. Barcliffe's mouth, just couldn't

532
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,260
have been more than six months old.

533
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:03,000
No, sir, our insurance company had no
full dental record. Only what we've

534
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,000
here about the man's bridges.

535
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,840
As an expert in these matters, Mr.
Jeffries, don't you think it's possible

536
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,500
we're actually dealing here with not
just two dental bridges, but three?

537
00:30:13,180 --> 00:30:14,920
Not two dentists, but three?

538
00:30:15,879 --> 00:30:18,180
Well, I'd say that's a possibility, yes.

539
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:22,760
And would you also say that it's
probably complicated to him? Mr. Mason,

540
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,320
investigator, all I can say is it
worked.

541
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:26,760
We got taken.

542
00:30:27,740 --> 00:30:31,120
If Grover Johnson hadn't killed his
wife, none of this ever would have been

543
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:32,980
discovered. Just a moment, Mr. Jeffries.

544
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,280
You're not an expert on who killed
Euler.

545
00:30:37,460 --> 00:30:38,239
I'm sorry.

546
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:39,240
I stand corrected.

547
00:30:39,420 --> 00:30:40,940
For that, we'll have to talk to Mr.

548
00:30:41,140 --> 00:30:41,959
Willard Huff.

549
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:45,100
But I heard him, I tell you. He said,
Eula, don't die.

550
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,060
Eula, don't... He was sobbing, you said.

551
00:30:47,580 --> 00:30:48,900
Yes, Grover was.

552
00:30:49,180 --> 00:30:51,460
Had you ever heard Grover Johnson
crying, sobbing?

553
00:30:52,140 --> 00:30:55,740
Well, no, but holy... So how would you
know what his voice would sound like at

554
00:30:55,740 --> 00:30:57,580
time like that? The things he was
saying.

555
00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,700
Grover loved her. He didn't want her to
die.

556
00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:02,640
And you think another conspirator would
have wanted her to die?

557
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:04,160
I don't follow.

558
00:31:04,220 --> 00:31:07,820
Mr. Huff, Eula Johnson was going to
receive a huge amount of money.

559
00:31:08,580 --> 00:31:12,000
If someone else working with her planned
that whole swindle, how could he ever

560
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,500
get one penny if Eula were dead?

561
00:31:13,820 --> 00:31:15,960
Well, Grover was going to get half of
that money.

562
00:31:16,180 --> 00:31:19,560
And don't you think half of $200 ,000 is
worth pulling a swindle for?

563
00:31:19,860 --> 00:31:20,860
Oh, sure.

564
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,040
All right, Mr. Mason.

565
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:29,020
I'll admit, maybe I shouldn't have sworn
it was Grover's voice I heard. Maybe it

566
00:31:29,020 --> 00:31:30,720
could have been somebody else in there
with her.

567
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,500
Thank you for changing your testimony,
Mr. Hupp. Well, now, that doesn't mean I

568
00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:37,340
was lying. And don't you turn around and
try to hang this thing on me. I didn't

569
00:31:37,340 --> 00:31:39,580
have anything to do with it. Of course
you didn't, Mr. Huff.

570
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,140
You wouldn't have known how to swindle
an insurance company.

571
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:46,300
You wouldn't have known how to get a
policy approved for your con man

572
00:31:46,300 --> 00:31:47,300
with his phony identity.

573
00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:49,900
You wouldn't have even known what
identity to pick.

574
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,980
Where did you get the name Barcliff, Mr.
Jeffries?

575
00:31:56,980 --> 00:32:00,260
Was it that revolving door accident four
years ago in Sacramento?

576
00:32:06,980 --> 00:32:07,979
Yeah, it was.

577
00:32:07,980 --> 00:32:10,460
It was in a medical building where
Barker just left his dentist.

578
00:32:13,380 --> 00:32:18,100
We carried the insurance on that
building, and he was the only witness to

579
00:32:18,100 --> 00:32:19,100
woman's accident.

580
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,900
But I never could locate him, even after
years of looking.

581
00:32:24,260 --> 00:32:29,480
So when you met unhappy Eula Johnson in
San Francisco, you developed an idea for

582
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,260
a perfect insurance swindle.

583
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,640
Eula didn't realize how perfectly it was
working.

584
00:32:36,910 --> 00:32:38,810
He kept getting more and more scared.

585
00:32:40,090 --> 00:32:41,090
Hysterical.

586
00:32:42,170 --> 00:32:47,970
At night when I went over there, I... I
tried to quiet her.

587
00:32:51,690 --> 00:32:53,270
I didn't mean to kill her.

588
00:32:55,530 --> 00:32:59,750
But she... She pulled away from me
and...

589
00:32:59,750 --> 00:33:06,070
Her head... Her head...