Sharon Lynn Douglas Fuller Nelson Harrelson

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Hi. I'm Tina and I'm Rich. And if there's one thing we've learned

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in over twenty years of marriage,
it's that some days you'll feel like killing

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your wife, and some days you'll
feel like killing your husband. Welcome to

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love, Mary Kill, Hey Rich, Hey Tina. How are you?

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I'm pretty good. How are you
quite handsome today? Oh? Thanks?

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I just got my haircut. I'm
struggling a little bit though, because I

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was eating an apple right before we
came on, and I was I was

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rushing because I knew you were ready
to record, and I bit my lip

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that. Oh no, yeah,
I might impede my voice. Yeah,

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you're wearing your Detroit Versus Everybody sweatshirt
today, feeling feisty. It's kind of

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weird. This time of year is
strange because there's no sport. Yeah,

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I'm not a basketball guy. Well, March madness. You you like March

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madness? When does that start?
By the way, in March? Sometimes?

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Okay, thanks for arrowing it.
It's got to be starting soon.

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Yeah, it's got to be.
But I really recording this a week before

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it's being released, so it's March
tenth, so it's got to start within

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the next week. I would say, Okay, we took a break and

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did a quick google because we didn't
want to provide incorrect information. But March

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Madness starts the selection day, which
is when they come out with the brackets.

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That's March seventeenth, and then it
goes over the following three weekends and

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the final four is Sunday, April
sixth, So it's in April, right.

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Doesn't it usually end at April?
I don't know, maybe it's ending.

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How does Michigan look? I have
no idea. Really, I'm really

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like not a basketball fan. I
do enjoy March Madness, but I honestly

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don't pay any attention until the brackets
are picked, and then I'm like,

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oh, Michigan's been doing good or
not good. I didn't realize the brackets

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were picked last minute, but I
guess that makes sense because they're playing until

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Yeah, okay, well everyone knows
this is a sports podcast. I don't

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know if it's because it's been winter
for so long, but I've been feeling

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this sense of existential dread. Yeah. I wonder if anyone else out there

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is feeling that, or if it's
just to me. I feel like I've

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been feeling that for many years now, really many years kind of yeah,

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huh, maybe I need more sunshine. Yeah, we could probably all use

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a little more sunshine. We just
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review we got this week. Do
you can you summarize it real quick?

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I mean yeah, Basically, the
person said that our reading from our script

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doesn't sound natural, that the words
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we're getting it from or generated by
AI. We don't address negative reviews generally,

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it's just a waste of time.
People feel how they feel, and

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they have a right to those feelings. But that felt uncomfortable to me because

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you and I both we work super
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me hours and hours and hours,
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We do read books, and sometimes
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similar to the book, but every
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just wanted to make that and we
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like that. We just have big
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recently tabulated how much money we make
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make six cents per hour? That
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That that's that's the only point I
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a snack. Our lovely, lovely
friend Susanna sent us snacks from Colorado.

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It was so excited when we get
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and she went out of her way
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nick She send us really nice sample
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put it on you made some toe
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she sent us buffalo jerky, beef
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candy chocolate bars. They're really pretty
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milk chocolate and sorry talking to the
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Let's take a break a while.
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be really full. Those were yummy
snacks and no delicious. I've never had

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elk jerky before. We had buffalo
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was it was really good. They're
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yeah, and the chocolate was delicious. Sugar free chocolate it was really

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good. Yeah, it was really
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Susannah Joysilkwood. Very cool. Thanks
Susannah for the next Yeah, thank you

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so much. Today, I'm going
to tell you the story of Sharon Lynn

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Douglas Fuller, Nelson Harrelson. Oh
that's a mouthful, I'll say. My

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source for today's episode is a book
by Greg Olsen. It's weird because there's

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two names of the book. It
was released with one name and then re

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released under another name. The first
name was American Black Widow, the shocking

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true story of a preacher's wife turned
killer, and the second name was John

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Wheels. Oh okay. It was
a good book, but a little perverse

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at times. Perverse, like in
what way, like in a sexual way.

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Okay, like Sharon's I mean,
Sharon's a little racy, She's yeah,

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okay, So I don't really go
there too much. But yeah,

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the author, the author did okay, but uh, he has a lot

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of true crime books and he did
it was it was well written, so

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we should definitely check out his other
books. Cool. There was something about

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Sharon Lynn Douglas Buller Nelson Harrelson that
men couldn't resist. From her first husband

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to her last, no men left
Sharon willingly thrice married. Sharon was a

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bed hopper who quote would give the
frogs of Calaveras County a run for their

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money. She'd bet at half the
married or single men in one hundred mile

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radius if you wore pants and we're
looking for a woman to show you a

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good time. She was always ready
for an encounter. And you know what

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I mean by encounters? Oh,
I think I know what you mean.

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End quote. When Sharon was forty
three, she married her third husband,

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Glen Harrelson, a firefighter. They
hadn't yet commingled their homes when there was

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a raging house fire at Glen's home
in Thornton Colorado. Sharon lived about four

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hours away in the mountains in western
Colorado on a remote mountain road named Cougar

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Ridge. On November eighteenth, nineteen
eighty eight, Thornton Police and fired departments

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responded to a fire at one two
three seven zero Columbine Court. Firefighters soon

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realized the house belonged to one of
their own, Glen Harrelson, Sharon's new

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husband, Bob Lloyd, a criminalist
with the Thornton Police Department, had investigated

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over one thousand homicides, mostly in
Detroit. You know, I'm always going

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to shout out Michigan when I can. Of course, he'd spent twenty years

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there investigating grizzly crime scenes. He
moved to Colorado for the fresh air and

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lower crime rates. Murders weren't daily
there. Life was peaceful. There was

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still crime, but there were space
further apart. On this day in November,

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he shifted through the smoldering rubble of
misshapen household items and melted heaps of

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plastic that had succumbed to the heat. It was a very hot fire,

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indicating to Bob that an accelerant had
likely been used. He found coins and

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two shotgun shells in the living room, spent shotgun shells in the basement.

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A chair was pushed over to the
window. The grate covering the window was

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missing. Could this be a point
of entry? Spider webs were still intact.

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Though no one got in or out
of here through that basement, Bob

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thought, but someone wanted him to
think they did. No one appeared to

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be home, but an officer scanned
his beam of light into a crawl space

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and it landed on the burned figure
of a man next to a charred gasoline

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can. Although his black and remains
were unrecognizable, the officer knew it must

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be forty five year old Glen Harrelson, lying on his back. The officer

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remarked that his head this is a
little grizzly. The officer remarked that his

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head was intact. Typically, in
the intense heat of fire, a human

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head explodes unless the skull has been
bludgeoned or pierced by a bullet. Oh

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boy, Later they would learn that
Glenn had taken two bullets to his face,

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or Glenn was a really sounds like
he was a really good guy.

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Sharon Lyn Douglas was born on July
third, nineteen forty five to Morris and

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Josephine Douglas, the middle of three
daughters. The Douglases were devout Seventh Day

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Adventists. Do you know anything about
Seventh Day Adventists? I really don't.

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I'm going to tell you a little
bit about Seventh Day Adventists. The Seventh

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day Adventist Church is the largest of
several Adventist groups that arose from the mill

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Rite movement of the eighteen forties in
upstate New York. The Seventh Day Adventist

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Church was officially founded in Battle Creek, Michigan, in eighteen sixty three.

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So tell us a little bit about
Battle Creek. What do you know about

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Battle Creek? Oh, Kellogg's Cereal
and what about like the Kellogg family and

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what's that one movie? Yeah,
I know, well Wellsville, wells is

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that it? But it's about like
the sanitarium that was in Battle Creek,

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And you know the cereal was cereal
was initially made. It was like a

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medicine, right, like, yeah, it was like a health It was

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how far we've come from, you
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you know, frosted flakes and whatnot. Today the Kellogg family was part of

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the Seventh Day Adventist movement. The
movie was The Road to Wellville from nineteen

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ninety four. I'm looking at the
cast photo here Anthony Hopkins, Matthew broder

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Bridge at Fonda, and John Cusack. Oh, John Cusack, Yeah,

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my favorite. There are twenty million
Seventh Day Adventists globally in eighty five thousand

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churches, eight thousand schools, and
two hundred hospitals. Seventh Day Adventists is

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a Christian religion that believes the body
is a temple of the Holy Spirit.

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The beliefs of the church are meant
to permeate your whole being. The Bible

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is to be the ultimate authority of
one's life. Adventists don't drink, smoke,

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or do drugs, or eat meat, and they are discouraged from drinking

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caffeine, caffeine or eating processed food. I think some of these views have

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shifted a little bit since their origins. The church believes God created Earth in

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six days and rested on the seventh
day, Saturday. The Sabbath, or

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day of Rest, is observed from
sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday.

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Church is attended on Saturday Seventh Day
Adventists believe that death is a sleeping state

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and one will be awakened when Jesus
Christ returns. Marriage is meant to be

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a lifelong commitment for Adventists, and
marriage is only between a man and a

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woman. Strict chastity is observed before
marriage. Back to the Douglas family,

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Maurice Douglas was a carpenter and Josephine
was a homemaker and part time bus driver.

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Music, dancing, and movie watching
were forbidden in their home. Television

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was allowed until Elvis Presley appeared on
The Ed Sullivan Show in nineteen fifty six

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swiveling his hips. After that,
television was forbidden in the Douglas household.

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Gandalus Sharon had no memories of her
mother laughing or even smiling. She was

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an austere woman who was on the
earth to serve God. When she was

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pregnant with their third daughter, Joy, Josephine planted herself in the middle of

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the railroad tracks and waited for a
train to come. She wanted to end

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her life, but she changed her
mind and went home to her family.

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The children were discouraged from playing together
and they were kept from one another to

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keep the house peaceful and quiet.
They were taught to suppress their feelings and

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emotions. This doesn't sound good.
No, it doesn't sound like a happy

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household, does it. Punishments in
the Douglas house were swift and stern,

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and always involved hours of prayer,
meetings with a hair brush or sometimes with

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a switch. The punished child picked
from the yard. Morris was a more

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permissive parent than Josephine Sharon's happy His
childhood memories involved going for a ride with

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her father to town where he would
treat her to a soda. That's her

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happiest memory. Yeah. Judy,
the oldest daughter, was sent to a

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girls school for being rebellious after getting
caught on a picnic with a boy.

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She once went to the police after
she received a harsh beating with a belt

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buckle that left her back bloodied,
but the police didn't intervene. Not surprisingly,

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at age sixteen, Judy moved out
of the house. Sharon was sexually

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assaulted twice as a miner, once
by a church elder and once by a

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janitor. Both were by men who
she trusted. In November nineteen sixty three,

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three days after JFK was assassinated,
eighteen year old Sharon married Mike Fuller,

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a young Seventh Day Adventist preacher.
Days before the wedding around her parents'

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kitchen table, Sharon had told them
she didn't want to marry him, but

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they convinced her that he was a
good man and it was the best possible

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decision she could make. She regrets
it every day after. Being married to

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a minister in small town America wasn't
exciting enough for Sharon. She didn't like

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playing second fiddle to her husband,
and she found the obligated tasks of a

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preacher's wife tiresome and mundane. In
the first years of their marriage, the

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couple moved frequently, first to Ohio
and then to Durham, North Carolina.

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Sharon worked part time as a secretary
for a printing company when she began an

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affair with her boss, who was
twenty five years her senior. She became

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pregnant from this liaison. When Sharon
told Mike she was pregnant, she hoped

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that he wouldn't question the paternity.
One fateful evening, Sharon overheard Mike on

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the phone say, quote, I've
never loved her. She's like a millstone

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around my neck. Quote. So
it's mutual, she thought. Near the

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end of Sharon's pregnancy, she walked
into the icy waters of Lake Erie with

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the intent of ending her life.
With each step, as the water rose

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higher, she contemplated what life would
be like if she were free of Mike.

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The frigid waters gave her clarity.
She went home and told Mike she

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was done with their marriage, but
Mike convinced her they could make it work.

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It's tragic that Sharon, like her
mother, wanted to end her life

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in pregnancy. Yeah, it's truly
sad. On June first, nineteen sixty

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nine, Rochelle was born, adding
to the stress of the marriage. Rochelle

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was a Colaguy baby. One night, Mike confronted Sharon and told her he

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knew that the baby wasn't his child
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Mike stormed out of the house,
intent on fighting the man. Sharon called

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a friend who was able to calm
Mike down. Things were good with the

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couple for a few years. In
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daughter, Denise. In the summer
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Mike and their two daughters, Rochelle
seven and Denise Toio, traveled from

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Durham, North Carolina, to southeast
Colorado for a fresh start. Their previous

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church had sent them packing after four
years when Sharon had another a with a

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parishioner named Craig, who she was
deeply in love with. He wrote her

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poetry and loved her like no one
had ever loved her. She was heartbroken

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to leave him. Mike was livid
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We're being kicked out because you're a
little slut, Sharon unquote. Others

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said their departure was due to Mike's
terse and unyielding ways. He could sometimes

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be a difficult man. Mike was
hired to be the pastor for two Colorado

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churches in the neighboring towns of La
Junta and Rocky Ford, about eight miles

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apart. When they arrived at their
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it abandoned and unfinished by the builder
after he went bankrupt. They were forced

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to live in a bleaque cramped motel
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The community rallied around the young pastor
and his family and invited them to their

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homes for dinner to welcome them to
the community. One of the first families

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to entertain the Fullers was church elder
doctor Perry Nelson, his wife Julie,

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and their three teenage daughters. Sharon
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three. Doctor Nelson owned two successful
optometry offices. He was the only optometrist

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for miles around. Surely a doctor
was a step up from her boring minister

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husband. Sharon reasoned, Perry Nelson
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Not like a you know, a
major just like a little layer plane.

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Okay, it was just a little
a little plane. Still, the doctor

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used the mobile home for more than
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stood by his side despite his wandering
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okay. The women in Colorado took
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husbands noticed the way she's sacheted into
a room. Sharon was attractive and flashy.

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She dressed far more seductively than a
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dresses, low cut tops, and
short shorts. The Foolers and Nelson's became

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fast friends. They went hiking and
camping together. Sharon was very attracted to

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the charismatic optometrist he had riz that's
what the kids, you don't know what

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it's all right. He was so
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and he was interested in what she
had to say. I don't know

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why people think that we're using AI
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That's what I love that discussion.
There's a word I don't use very

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often, but it's a really good
quote. He was so easy to talk

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to. It was like I'd known
him all my life. We just fell

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into a real easy friendship, she
said. Later. By fall, doctor

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Nelson hired Sharon to work with him. Barbaria Sketty, Perry's loyal, longtime

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assistant and friend, was told she
could take extra long lunches now that there

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was another office assistant. Barb had
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years, and she knew Perry well, and she had a feeling that trouble

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was brewing with Sharon. She tried
to like her, but she didn't like

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her in titled attitude and the way
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You know where this is going,
I do. A torrid affair began between

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the two. They were careless about
keeping it a secret, often escaping to

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Perry's motor home. They were in
love and didn't care who knew it.

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Huh when I wrote that, I
thought of Elf. Perry told Barb he'd

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never felt the love like he had
with Sharon. In September of nineteen seventy

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six, Perry and Sharon left their
spouses. They checked into a hotel and

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took seven year old Rochelle with them. Remember, Rochelle isn't Mike's biological child,

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but he never saw it that way. He considered her his own.

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But maybe Sharon, you know,
thought she needed to take her with The

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two spurned spouses, Mike and Julie
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Mike was enraged when they found Perry's
car at the motel. With the assistance

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of the police, he broke into
the hotel room and took Rochelle with them.

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He had the police because he was
like, my child's been kidnapped,

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because otherwise I don't think the police
would intervene. Mike filed a restraining order

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against Sharon and Perry, prohibiting them
from seeing Rochelle and Denise. People were

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shocked that Sharon would leave her girls
for the doctor. She was judged harshly

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and she felt their vichery all for
her. She missed her children and began

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questioning everything, which was rare for
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A friend in Fort Worth, Texas, who was a Christian counselor,

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told her to come and see him
and then he would help her through the

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hard time. Sharon left two men
behind, who both desperately wanted her,

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but she was torn. She spent
two weeks in Texas and then Mike joined

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her there. They attended several days
of marriage counseling together and decided to try

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to make their marriage work. What
do you think of that? I think

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it's probably not going to probably a
bad idea. Sharon agreed to never contact

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Perry again. Mike took a position
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Colorado, about ten miles from Denver, which was about two hours from where

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they had previously lived, so Mike
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Mike's new congregation of about two thousand
was much larger than his last. Sharon

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could feel them all judging her.
She was sure her reputation in the Seventh

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day Adventist community preceded her. Sure, that's probably true, right, because

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the church, it sounds like they're
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that, I'm sure probably made waves. It definitely did. And I didn't

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go into this too much, and
the author of the book I read alluded

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to it. But we talked about
she had two affairs. I think she

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had many, many affairs. It
wasn't just too it was a lot.

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And when they first moved, people
didn't know, but eventually they caught wind

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of her past. Sharon got a
job as a staffing coordinator at a hospital,

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trying to make herself busy to forget
about Perry. She began drinking at

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night when she came home from her
job, and then began day drinking to

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get through the days too. Perry
sent her a music box that played somewhere

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My Love. Do you know that
song? So No go ahead, No

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keep going? Really I thought I
might know it, but I don't think

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I did. These songs to singing. Ah. It broke Sharon, and

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she decided to move out on her
own and end her marriage with Mike for

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good. Sharon moved to Colorado Springs
and stayed with her sister Judy. She

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took Rochelle and Denise with her,
but Mike soon appeared with a court order

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in his hands and a deputy by
his side, and took the girls with

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him. Sharon didn't fight him.
It's hard to imagine a mother just willingly

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leaving her kids behind and not fighting
it. I don't think Sharon's children are

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her top priority. Life sounds like
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Sharon moved back to Rocky and began
her life with Perry. Julie,

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Perry's wife and his youngest daughter,
Laurie, moved to California to start their

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own new life. She was saddened
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believed that her philandering husband was no
longer her problem. Sharon started to work

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at Perry's optometry practice again. She
had the entitled behavior of the bosses mistress,

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and she and Barb betted heads frequently. I feel bad for Barbara Barb.

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Barb was pretty awesome and she put
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brusque and rude to patience. Many
said they'd never return. After dealing with

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her, Mike sued Sharon for full
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During their court hearing, the judge
said, quote, I declare you

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a whore, and I am taking
it just the thing judges, I don't

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think judges used that word very often. Think I am taking your two daughters

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away from you. You will not
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years old. When they turned thirteen
years of age, they can make up

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their minds if they want to stay
with their so called mother or go with

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their father. Wow. Mike then
took the girls and moved to Ohio.

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A judge, I declare you a
whore? Right? I mean, it's

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not It was in nineteen nineteen seventies, so maybe judges, I mean,

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I think a judge would still say
that today. Maybe maybe, I don't

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know. It'd be probably pretty controversial, but yeah. On July first,

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nineteen seventy seven, not long after
their divorces were finalized, Sharon and Perry

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were married and bought a new home
together. Sharon took over the books at

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the optometry practice. A big mistake, A huge mistake. Vendors were left

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unpaid and orders unfilled. Sharon would
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The bank account was frequently overdrawn,
and several times Barb's paycheck bounced.

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Perry was financially strained. He had
to pay his ex wife child support and

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alimony, and his new wife was
bleeding him dry. Sharon shopped almost daily.

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She brought her new wares back to
the office to show off to disgruntled

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Barb. By the end of the
summer, Sharon announced she was pregnant.

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The baby, boy, Danny,
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People quickly did the math and realized
that Sharon must have been pregnant when the

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couple got married. Is scandal I
mean, you know they are like Perry

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was involved in the church, So
yeah, I mean it was pretty scandalous.

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Laurie, Perry's youngest daughter, came
to Colorado that summer to stay with

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Sharon and Perry. The summer started
out great. Laurie loved Sharon. She

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was permissive and allowed the fifteen year
old to drink. Laurie decided to transfer

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to a school in Colorado. She
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Academy, in Lovedland, Colorado.
Sharon bought Lurie alcohol to take to school.

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She's fifteen. She told her to
fill her mouth wash bottle with pepperminte

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schnops, which is actually pretty smart. Which was taken a mouth wash bottle

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at school either? I don't think
so. I never knew anyone to carry

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around a mouth wash bottle with them
at school. Well, right, but

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in your dorm room you could have
your mouth washed bottle. Oh okay,

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I guess I wasn't realizing this was
a board It was a boarding You said

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it was a boarding school that I
missed it. It's okay. Laurie was

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later expelled for drinking, among other
rebellious behaviors. She moved back with her

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mother, so it was almost like
Sharon set her up. Laurie wrote a

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heartfelt letter to her father apologizing for
her behavior, but Sharon kept it from

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him. She demanded that Laurie mail
all of the things that she had bought

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for her dorm room back to her. Sharon came between father and daughter and

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the two became estranged and would remain
so for years. In nineteen eighty,

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Sharon and Perry welcomed another child,
a daughter, they named Misty. We'll

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be back after a break. Despite
being extended financially, Sharon fell in love

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with a thirty five acre property in
Weston, Colorado, in the Wet Mountain

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Valley, about thirty minutes from Trinidad, where Perry's offices were located. Building

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their dream house on a remote mountain
was a huge undertaking. Sharon named their

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house Roundhouse for its six sided living
room and stunning mountain views. The property

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was remote and hard to locate,
perched on a mountain side. Sharon loved

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to sing and play the piano,
but didn't have one of her own.

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A neighbor told Sharon she could play
her piano. The neighbor left her house

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to run errands and returned to find
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She beat Sharon with a broom and
demanded she leave. Sharon was really

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bad at making friends with women.
I can't imagine why Sharon grew tired of

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Perry. After she had drained his
bank account and sunk his business, she

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left him and the children behind.
She moved in with Buzz Reynolds, a

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wealthy, self made man and one
of Perry's best friends, who lived on

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an impressive ranch. One day,
she dropped into the optometry office to pick

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up a paycheck. The visit turned
into a fight with Perry. As Sharon

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was leaving the office, she told
Barb quote, I'll tell you what,

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if that son of a bitch doesn't
give me a divorce, I'll blow his

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fucking head off. I'll kill him
unquote. Meanwhile, Perry's business continued to

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struggle. Perry owed everyone money,
vendors over one hundred thousand dollars in back

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taxes along with his large mortgage.
He was forced to close one of his

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offices. He had once been the
only optometrist in two towns, but there

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were other doctors in the area now, and with his sullied reputation as an

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adulterer, his customers left the practice
in droves. One former patient said,

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quote, you don't steal a minister's
wife and do business as usual in Trinidad

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unquote. Barb noticed the doctor often
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He told Barb he wanted to end
it all. A friend found him

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with a gun pressed to his temple. He was able to calm Perry down

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temporarily, but sadly things were about
to get worse for Parry. So remember,

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Perry is a Seventh Day Adventist and
he's not supposed to drink. He

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really didn't drink, but Sharon drove
from him to drink. Sharon told Perry

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that she was pregnant with Buzz's baby. He was devastated and told her he

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never wanted to see her again.
Buzz wasn't excited about the baby either.

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He kicked Sharon out of his house, ending their seven month affair. She

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aborted the pregnancy. Her sister later
claimed that it had been Sharon's sixth abortion.

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Perry still loved Sharon and missed his
life with her. She wore him

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down and let her back into his
life. Sharon began working at the optometry

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office again. Poor Barb was let
go after seventeen loyal years with Parry.

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He couldn't afford to pay two salaries. Oh poor Barb. Yeah, I

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didn't talk about this, but in
the book the author mentioned and that when

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Barb went to apply for unemployment,
they declined her because Perry hadn't paid the

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taxes that he needed to pay to
ensure Yeah, oh gosh. And again

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I didn't talk about this either very
much, but the author of the book

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talks about Sharon's appearance non stuff like
she's beautiful, and she's curvaceous, and

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she's just goes on and on about
how stunning she is. Okay, and

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I couldn't find many pictures of Sharon, but I think he may have embellished

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it a little bit. Just as
Sharon was starting to get restless with Perry

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again, a handsome stranger, Gary
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He was a neighbor who lived in
a mobile home near the roundhouse. He

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was well known in the community for
his skills as a carpenter, rufer,

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00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:51.000
and handyman. Sharon decided to have
a Halloween party and invited all of her

404
00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:56.039
neighbors, among them Gary and his
wife Nancy. She dressed as Scarlett O'Hara.

405
00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:00.279
Gary was dressed as a mountain man
in leather pants. I don't know

406
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:03.880
what that means to be dressed as
a MoMA man and leather pants. Sharon

407
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:08.160
asked him to dance and pressed her
body close to his with their spouse's just

408
00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:12.119
feet away. Did Sharon ever go
for unmarried men or was it always married

409
00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:17.400
men? I don't think Buzz was
married. Okay, but I think the

410
00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:21.400
ones you hear about are the ones
that are married. Gotcha. Gary had

411
00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:23.880
learned his trade from his carpenter father. He was close to his family.

412
00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:29.119
Gary dropped out of high school after
he was told to get a haircut and

413
00:31:29.160 --> 00:31:30.920
he joined the Marines instead, and
he had to get a buzz cut.

414
00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:37.119
He was a simple man who enjoyed
the outdoors and earning an honest living.

415
00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:40.240
He didn't need to be rich,
He just needed enough to live on.

416
00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:44.400
He was good with his hands and
could build or fix anything his family needed.

417
00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:48.039
He loved his wife and his two
children. He was kind of a

418
00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:52.119
departure for Sharon, right. So
you know, she'd been with the preacher

419
00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:56.039
and she really loved being married to
a doctor. M hm. So Gary

420
00:31:56.160 --> 00:32:00.319
was just kind of a well,
he was a mountain man, right.

421
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:05.720
Sharon and Gary, not surprising to
anyone, began an affair. They were

422
00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:10.440
explosive together. Gary quickly fell in
love or lust with Sharon. She loved

423
00:32:10.440 --> 00:32:15.680
his rugged, carefree demeanor. She
confided in him that she was afraid of

424
00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:20.960
Parry. Parry was abusive to her
and their children. Gary had also forged

425
00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:25.680
a friendship with Perry. He and
Sharon hid their affair well. Sharon considered

426
00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:30.119
Nancy her closest friend. The couples
got together frequently to play cards and drink

427
00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:36.759
together. Gary knew Perry to be
a good kind man and question Sharon's stories

428
00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:39.960
of abuse. Sharon hatched a plan
to get rid of Perry and solve her

429
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:45.880
money problems. She needed Gary's help, and he obliged. One night in

430
00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:47.960
June, Perry and Gary went out
drinking at a strip club. Do you

431
00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:51.880
think they took their friend Larry with
them? I think there was a Larry

432
00:32:51.920 --> 00:32:55.319
there too, and Harry too.
Of course, Gary drugged Parry's beer when

433
00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:59.200
he went to the bathroom. When
Perry picked up the beer and put it

434
00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:01.799
to his lips and said, well
this tastes funny, I'm drinking, I'm

435
00:33:01.839 --> 00:33:07.440
done drinking for the night. Anyhow, Gary was disappointed but undeterred, but

436
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:12.119
Sharon was shocked. When Perry later
returned home, she was furious that Gary

437
00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:16.160
had botched the plan. Weeks later, Gary convinced Perry to join him on

438
00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:21.799
a four hour road trip to Denver
to buy some contraband guns. Only one

439
00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:24.759
of them returned from the trip.
No one knew that Gary had also been

440
00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:30.240
in the car on the way there. Parry's black VW Bug was found crumpled

441
00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:35.640
in a creek bed, but he
wasn't inside. The car had floated downstream

442
00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:39.079
from where it had landed in the
water. Crime scene investigators determined that the

443
00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:44.319
car must have been going at least
eighty miles per hour when it went through

444
00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:47.519
the guard rail. Oddly, there
were no personal effects or paperwork in the

445
00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:52.759
car. Search parties looked for Perry
for days. Sharon helped in the searches,

446
00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:59.759
but she seemed emotionless and bored.
She began selling Perry's possessions days after

447
00:33:59.799 --> 00:34:04.680
the accident. She even put the
optometry office up for sale. Gary moved

448
00:34:04.680 --> 00:34:08.199
in with Sharon within the week Wow
and was he was driving a new truck

449
00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:14.519
around town. The small mountain community
was scandalized. I can imagine. Whispers

450
00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:17.800
began to circulate that Parry's body hadn't
been found because he had been murdered and

451
00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:22.639
his car crash was staged. Maybe
his body is buried in the untamed mountain

452
00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:28.239
forests surrounding his home, people thought. But some friends thought that maybe he

453
00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:31.920
had left the country to evade the
irs and escape his troubled marriage. But

454
00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:37.039
Parry would have never left his children
behind. I don't think I didn't talk

455
00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:38.760
about this very much, but Perry
was a really he was a really nice

456
00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:44.199
man. He wasn't a faithful husband, but he did a lot for the

457
00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:50.119
community and for his church. He
was very generous in his practice. If

458
00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:54.280
someone couldn't pay for their glasses,
he would help them out or give people

459
00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:59.199
things for free all the time.
So before his business turned, he was

460
00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:04.440
known to be very kind and generous
in the community. Three weeks after Perry's

461
00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:09.159
disappearance, Laurie remember Laurie. Laurie
is his youngest daughter. Laurie was now

462
00:35:09.199 --> 00:35:14.159
married and she wanted to come help
look for her father. Sharon wrote her

463
00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:19.039
a letter dissuading her. It said, quote, this is such unusual circumstances

464
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:22.079
that even the friends in rocky Ford
are having a difficult time knowing what to

465
00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:27.119
do or say. At the point
where his body does surface, people will

466
00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:30.760
be able to see the reality of
the nightmare I have experienced for the last

467
00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:35.079
month. Laurie. I want him
found more than anyone, but I also

468
00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:37.440
know I couldn't handle being the one
to find him. At this point.

469
00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:43.199
Your dad lives in my heart wherever
his body is Another person will be the

470
00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:45.719
best one to find him, for
no one loves him would be able to

471
00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:52.159
emotionally handle the situation. End quote
strange strange note She's a piece of work.

472
00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:55.960
What happened on that June night when
Gary and Perry were on their way

473
00:35:57.000 --> 00:36:00.079
home from Denver. Gary told Perry
to stop the car so he could pee.

474
00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:04.719
When he returned to the car,
he told Parry he'd lost his wallet

475
00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:08.400
down a rocky embankment and asked him
to help look for it. Parry grabbed

476
00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:13.119
a flashlight to help his friend.
When they got to the dark embankment,

477
00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:17.239
Gary picked up a large rock and
repeatedly bashed Parry in the head, but

478
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:22.440
Parry wasn't dead. He tumbled down
the rocky hill and fell into ice cold

479
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:27.039
water. He sprang up and lunged
at Gary. Gary was able to overpower

480
00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:31.039
Parry again and tried to drown him. Parry proved stronger and more tenacious than

481
00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:36.599
Gary had anticipated. The two men
fought for a few minutes before Parry fell

482
00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:40.239
into the water and was washed away
by the current of the creek. Gary

483
00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:45.400
wasn't sure if he was dead.
He then pushed the VW off the road

484
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:47.360
and into the creek. So I
have a couple of questions. Okay,

485
00:36:47.559 --> 00:36:52.440
So did no one knew that Gary
was on this trip with other than Sharon?

486
00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:57.119
No one knew Gary was with Parry
like Kerry and Sharon didn't tell anyone.

487
00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:00.039
And how did Gary get back home? He called a friend and a

488
00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:04.079
friend came and picked him up.
Okay, so I guess that person knew.

489
00:37:04.119 --> 00:37:07.599
But yeah, yeah, no one
else did. Okay. Two months

490
00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:12.039
into their new living arrangement, Gary
moved back with his wife. He told

491
00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:15.199
Sharon that she was too difficult to
live with. She didn't mind. She

492
00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:19.960
loved Gary, but she had rekindled
her relationship with Buzz and his wallet was

493
00:37:20.039 --> 00:37:23.360
much bigger than Gary's. However,
Sharon and Gary always found their way back

494
00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:29.760
to each other among Sharon's never ending
string of lovers. Part of that they're

495
00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:34.559
linked by this murder too. And
I think they probably, you know,

496
00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:37.559
they both knew the secret between them, right, so they kind of had

497
00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:42.119
to be together. I would think, Yeah, Gary seemed like, you

498
00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:45.480
know, kind of like that cowboy
type guy, and I like a secret

499
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:50.239
would die with him. He seemed
like that kind of like he wouldn't turn

500
00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:53.559
on Sharon less than a year after
Perry disappeared, Sharon had his wedding ring

501
00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:59.920
melted down and had a gold and
diamond pendant made for Gary. It's crazy.

502
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:02.360
That is crazy. And they still
hadn't found Perry. They hadn't found

503
00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:07.639
Perry. So her, you know, just days after he went missing,

504
00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:12.000
Gary moves in. She's selling his
stuff, just no regard to Crazen.

505
00:38:13.719 --> 00:38:17.159
In the weeks before Perry's death,
Sharon had taken out three life insurance policies

506
00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:22.039
on her husband, because of course
she did, valued at two hundred and

507
00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:24.719
fifty thousand dollars, which would be
almost seven hundred and fifty thousand today.

508
00:38:25.559 --> 00:38:30.960
However, the insurance companies informed Sharon
they wouldn't pay out until Perry's body was

509
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:36.440
found. Days after Sharon had received
the notification from the insurance company, on

510
00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:39.800
August fourteenth, nineteen eighty four,
a man's body was found in a creek

511
00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:45.119
bed not far from the crash site. The body was estimated to be that

512
00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:47.880
of a thirty year old man.
Perry was fifty and said to be in

513
00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:52.559
remarkably good condition for being exposed to
the elements. A friend of Perry's,

514
00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:58.280
a doctor, offered to identify the
body surely a gruesome task for a widow,

515
00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:01.039
he thought, But Sharon had had
already identified the body and sent it

516
00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:07.519
to the crematorium immediately. His death
was ruled an accidental drowning. Do you

517
00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:10.039
see what she did there? I
mean kind of so it sounds like it

518
00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:15.079
was not his body, probably not
his body, but she just said that

519
00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:19.119
it was. Yeah, she identified
his body and she said, yep,

520
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:22.719
that's my husband. That's Perry.
Wow, that's crazy. Perry had been

521
00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:28.960
gone for over a year. That
area had been searched exhaustively, and hikers

522
00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:31.719
I think went through that area frequently. And then his body shows up and

523
00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:37.159
it's in good condition. And I
didn't mention this earlier, but the body

524
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:39.840
had clothing on it, and it
even had socks on it, and just

525
00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:45.480
seems very unlikely that a year later. Yeah, yeah, but I can't

526
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:50.199
tell you if anyone had gone missing, or who's that body that body could

527
00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:52.760
have been. I'm really surprised they
didn't do like DNA testing or something.

528
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:55.320
It was in the nineteen eighties.
Oh yeah, I guess so, I

529
00:39:55.320 --> 00:40:00.320
don't think that was, but yeah, they could have done media something.

530
00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:07.039
Sharon said it was too painful to
have a memorial service. She sent Perry's

531
00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:09.760
remains to his family in Michigan,
and they had a service for him there.

532
00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:15.719
Sharon and Gary realized they were better
as friends with benefits than a real

533
00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:21.280
relationship. They agreed to split the
insurance money. Sharon deposited some money into

534
00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:24.039
high interest earning accounts at the bank, but she also went on a spending

535
00:40:24.079 --> 00:40:29.239
spree. She bought a new Mustang, two fur coats, and an expensive

536
00:40:29.280 --> 00:40:34.519
wardrobe. She bought Gary a motorcycle. Rochelle, now fifteen, came to

537
00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:37.599
live with Sharon in Colorado after years
of living in Ohio with her father and

538
00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:42.960
younger sister. Sharon didn't mind having
her there, but had no interest in

539
00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:47.239
parenting another child. She treated Rochelle
as a drinking buddy and friend. She

540
00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:52.079
introduced her to a much older man, whom she married when she turned eighteen.

541
00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:57.880
Sharon continued her flip flopping relationships with
Buzz and Gary. Buzz asked her

542
00:40:57.880 --> 00:41:01.039
to marry him. Sharon said yes. Her parents and sisters came for the

543
00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:06.199
wedding and found her in bed with
Gary. Her parents had been tolerant and

544
00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:08.960
even supportive of her antics, but
that was the final straw for them.

545
00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:15.480
They left Sharon's house and never returned. Although the marriage between Sharon and Buzz

546
00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:19.400
was probably just for show, there's
no official record of it, so they

547
00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:22.079
weren't actually married legally. I don't
think so, no, okay, which

548
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:25.880
is kind of If the marriage had
been real, Buzz probably would have not

549
00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:34.239
lived, okay. Sharon was heartbroken
that Gary wouldn't marry her. The marriage

550
00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:37.400
quote unquote between Sharon and Buzz was
short lived. She decided to rent an

551
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:42.760
apartment in Denver where she could live
without everyone knowing about her checkered past.

552
00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:46.559
Glenn Harrelson and his wife Andrea or
Andy lived in Des Moines, Iowa,

553
00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:52.360
but after they had vacationed in Colorado, they fell in love with the mountains

554
00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:55.360
and clean air and moved there.
The couple had two children, a son

555
00:41:55.440 --> 00:42:00.519
Todd and a daughter, Tara.
The Harrelsons had a good marriage. Glenn

556
00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:04.320
loved working as a firefighter. He
was also a great asset to the firehouse

557
00:42:04.360 --> 00:42:08.320
with his easygoing personality. He entertained
his coworkers with his singing, guitar playing,

558
00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:14.159
and practical jokes. He was a
beloved squad member, respectful, hard

559
00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:19.360
working, loyal, and dedicated like
a lot of firefighters. Glenn had several

560
00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:22.119
side hustles. He and his friend
Jim owned a carpet business and a car

561
00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:27.519
wash. After twenty two years together, he and Andy split up but remained

562
00:42:27.519 --> 00:42:31.280
close friends. Glenn hated to be
alone. Feeling insecure and middle aged with

563
00:42:31.320 --> 00:42:36.000
a receding hairline, he made the
bold decision to get a two pay.

564
00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:39.679
Not many men get two pays anymore, No, they don't. Soon after,

565
00:42:39.800 --> 00:42:45.000
Glenn met forty three year old widower
Sharon Nelson through an ad in the

566
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:52.000
newspaper. He was instantly smitten.
So back in the nineteen eighties, tinder

567
00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:57.559
and all those things didn't exist,
so sometimes people would place ads in newspapers.

568
00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:00.320
Oh yes, what do you remember
that? Did you place that?

569
00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:05.039
I never did, but I do
remember those ads? Okay. So Glenn

570
00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:08.519
was instantly smitten with Sharon. He
thought she was the bee's knees. She

571
00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:13.920
made him feel loved and secure.
She even liked his bald head and he

572
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:19.159
gave up the tupei. But his
children and friends found Sharon abrasive and rude.

573
00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:22.400
They didn't like being around her at
all, but Glenn didn't care.

574
00:43:23.719 --> 00:43:27.800
One time though. Glenn was so
sick with Mono that he needed to go

575
00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:30.519
to the hospital. It wasn't Sharon
that he called. He called his ex

576
00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:34.599
wife Andy. Well. He was
in the hospital, he found out that

577
00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:39.159
Sharon had been seeing an ex boyfriend
and he ended the relationship. When they

578
00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:44.039
broke up, Glenn's friends and family
couldn't hide their happiness, but it was

579
00:43:44.119 --> 00:43:47.639
short lived. Like so many other
men in Sharon's life, Glenn just couldn't

580
00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:52.679
quit Sharon, and he took her
back. Can you like all these times

581
00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:54.079
like people are just you know,
back and forth, back and forth.

582
00:43:55.199 --> 00:44:00.000
It's exhausting. He soon asked Sharon
and her children to move in with him.

583
00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:04.760
She declined she wasn't ready to give
up her freedom and her beloved roundhouse.

584
00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:08.440
But when Glenn asked Sharon to marry
him, she said yes. Soon

585
00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:14.800
after, Glenn changed the beneficiary on
his life insurance policy. Bad idea Glenn.

586
00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:19.159
On a summer day in June nineteen
eighty eight, Glenn suggested that they

587
00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:22.639
go to the courthouse and get married. He didn't want to wait any longer.

588
00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:27.599
Sharon agreed. She wore shorts of
tank top and sandals to the spur

589
00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:30.920
of the moment wedding. Sharon was
adamant that she wouldn't move to Glenn's home

590
00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:35.719
in Thornton, near Denver. She
didn't want to move her children, and

591
00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:38.840
Glenn didn't want to leave the fire
station. On his days off, Glenn

592
00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:43.920
would make the nearly four hour drive
to Sharon. It was an odd arrangement,

593
00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:46.800
but it was the best compromise that
they could make. I think they

594
00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:51.639
had met when Sharon was renting the
apartment in Denver, and Denver and Thornton

595
00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:54.920
were close to each other. And
then Sharon moved back to the roundhouse in

596
00:44:54.960 --> 00:44:59.880
the mountains and it was a four
hour drive. Okay. By Novem,

597
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:02.519
Sharon and Gary were plotting to get
rid of Glenn. You didn't think we

598
00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:06.519
were done with Gary, did you. Of course, it had worked so

599
00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:08.880
well the first time. She told
Gary quote, I want it done before.

600
00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:14.519
I want it done before Thanksgiving.
Glenn's mother is coming from Des Moines,

601
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:16.960
and I don't want to spend the
holiday with her. I can't stand

602
00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:21.800
her. Wow, that is a
reason to schedule your murder. I guess

603
00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:24.000
she's a brutal woman, I'll say. One day, Glenn called his best

604
00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:28.639
friend Jim Schindler at the firehouse.
He told him he had to talk to

605
00:45:28.679 --> 00:45:31.400
him about something important. Jim told
him to call him back on the non

606
00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:36.960
business line in five minutes so he
could get to a secure location. Glenn

607
00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:40.280
had recently confided in Jim that his
marriage was already in trouble and he thought

608
00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:45.920
he'd made a mistake. He'd found
cigarette butts outside of the roundhouse that didn't

609
00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:47.840
belong to him, and he was
pretty sure he knew where they came from.

610
00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:52.599
Glenn had even called Judy, Sharon's
sister, to ask her if she

611
00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:55.960
knew if Sharon and Gary were still
seeing each other. Judy assured Glenn that

612
00:45:57.079 --> 00:46:00.239
Sharon was happy with him and that
she was done with Gary, and Judy

613
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:06.440
did think that Jim waited by the
phone, but Glenn never called him back.

614
00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:09.920
He never talked to his friend again. On Friday evening, November eighteenth,

615
00:46:10.039 --> 00:46:14.639
nineteen eighty eight, Sharon, Danny, and Misty decided to pay a

616
00:46:14.679 --> 00:46:17.239
visit to their neighbors, the Brownings, down the mountain. It was an

617
00:46:17.320 --> 00:46:22.360
unexpected, but not unwanted visit.
Diane Browning had rented some movies earlier that

618
00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:27.320
day, so she invited Sharon and
the kids to stay for dinner. Snow

619
00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:30.679
started to fall, which made their
steep road dangerous. But Sharon accepted the

620
00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:36.360
invitation and they didn't leave it till
about nine pm. Diane later said that

621
00:46:36.440 --> 00:46:38.360
it was unlike Sharon, like Sharon
didn't like to drive when it was snowing,

622
00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:43.440
but Sharon was like, oh,
it's okay, I'll stay. Meanwhile,

623
00:46:43.559 --> 00:46:46.679
Gary Adams drove the four hours to
Thornton. Sharon had drawn him a

624
00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:52.400
map to one two three seven zero
Columbine Court Glenn's house. She told him

625
00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:57.199
she needed proof that he had done
the deed. She wanted Glenn's wedding ring.

626
00:46:58.320 --> 00:47:00.639
Gary arrived at the house just before
any pm, as Sharon had told

627
00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:04.639
him to do. He lay in
wait with a lead pipe in his hand.

628
00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:07.239
When Glenn entered the house, Gary
smacked him with the pipe, but

629
00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:12.760
Glenn fought back. Gary would have
to go with Plan B. Plan B

630
00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:15.159
was the gun in his back pocket. He was hoping not to have to

631
00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:21.679
use the gun, but Gary show
Glenn twice in the face. Gary removed

632
00:47:21.679 --> 00:47:23.679
the grade over the basement window to
make it look as if a burglar had

633
00:47:23.800 --> 00:47:28.280
entered there. He tried to make
the house look as if it had been

634
00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:31.840
robbed, emptying drawers of their contents. He threw coins throughout the room,

635
00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:37.239
but he forgot to take any valuables
from Glenn's house other than his wedding ring.

636
00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:43.519
No one knows how to make a
burglary look stage. No. Gary

637
00:47:43.559 --> 00:47:45.760
poured gas throughout the house, lit
a match, and walked out the door.

638
00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:51.960
Sharon and Glenn knew the two best
ways to destroy evidence were fire and

639
00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:54.840
water. They had used water the
last time, so they decided to go

640
00:47:54.920 --> 00:48:00.280
with fire this time. Gary returned
to Sharon at four am in and gave

641
00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:06.079
her Glenn's wedding ring, Poor Glenn. First responders at Glenn's house didn't know

642
00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:08.599
what to think. A firefighter wouldn't
die in a fire. Could it have

643
00:48:08.679 --> 00:48:15.239
been suicide? Poor Sharon, Glenn's
friend's thought she'd already lost one husband.

644
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:21.840
Then they said she'd already lost one
husband. Wait a minute. The roundhouse

645
00:48:21.880 --> 00:48:24.400
didn't have a telephone. There was
no easy way to inform Sharon of her

646
00:48:24.519 --> 00:48:30.159
husband's death. Officers would need to
drive to her remote mountain sign home and

647
00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:34.440
tell her face to face. Glenn's
mother was informed of her son's death.

648
00:48:34.599 --> 00:48:38.159
She was devastated, but she was
kind enough to reach out to Rochelle she

649
00:48:38.239 --> 00:48:42.760
knew that Sharon didn't have a phone. She asked Rochelle to tell her mother

650
00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:46.119
about Glenn's death. Rochelle raced to
the roundhouse. She made the thirty minute

651
00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:52.119
drive in fifteen minutes. Rochelle consoled
her devastated mother. She had no idea

652
00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:57.400
that Sharon was play acting. The
officers arrived to break the news to Sharon.

653
00:48:57.719 --> 00:49:00.559
They were relieved her daughter had already
told her. Sharon was brought into

654
00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:06.320
the police station for questioning. She
was forthcoming and talkative until the questions became

655
00:49:06.400 --> 00:49:10.079
tougher and more direct. She lied
to officers and claimed she'd never had an

656
00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:15.239
extramarital affair. She said she was
in love with Glenn three over. Her

657
00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:19.119
children were with her at the police
station, which was really awkward. I'm

658
00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:22.519
not sure why she brought them.
After a couple of hours, Sharon became

659
00:49:22.599 --> 00:49:27.639
paranoid and said she would only continue
the questioning if they continued at a neutral

660
00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:32.440
location. She said, these walls
have ears. They drove around for forty

661
00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:37.039
minutes until they came upon a pizza
hut and Sharon said, let's stop there,

662
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:42.280
perfect neutral location. Yeah, pizza
huts used to be pretty magical.

663
00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:45.199
Yeah, did you ever go to
Pizzahut. Oh. I remember going Red

664
00:49:45.239 --> 00:49:49.920
Cups and there was video games in
a jukebox, and yeah, I remember

665
00:49:49.960 --> 00:49:53.039
going when I was young. My
mom my family never went there, but

666
00:49:53.119 --> 00:49:57.199
my friend did and I went with
my friend and it was like so special.

667
00:49:57.239 --> 00:49:59.119
I was like, oh, man, like when we were in high

668
00:49:59.159 --> 00:50:01.360
school. I think we would go
like after a game or whatever, and

669
00:50:01.480 --> 00:50:05.400
you know, they would always move
the tables and they could see like twelve

670
00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:07.760
people or whatever. It was was
a fun place to hang out. Yeah.

671
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:10.960
Sharon was read her rights and placed
under arrest at the Pizza Hut,

672
00:50:12.159 --> 00:50:15.280
but the officers let Sharon sit there
and tell her story. At the restaurant

673
00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:20.639
with her children eating pizza in a
booth nearby, She confessed to the officers

674
00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:24.760
that she and Gary Adams were responsible
for the deaths of Parry Nelson and Glenn

675
00:50:24.760 --> 00:50:29.960
Harlson. She told them that the
irs had a two hundred and sixty five

676
00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:34.199
thousand dollars lean on her house and
she felt like she had no other choice.

677
00:50:34.320 --> 00:50:37.960
One day, while Sharon was in
the county jail awaiting sentencing, she

678
00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:43.239
had an unexpected visitor. Laurie Nelson, now married Perry's youngest daughter came to

679
00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:46.039
see her. Sharon was happy to
see her, but Laurie had no interest

680
00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:50.800
in polite greetings. She said,
quote, I want you to know that

681
00:50:50.840 --> 00:50:53.519
you not only killed my father,
you also killed my children's grandfather and my

682
00:50:53.599 --> 00:50:59.639
grandparents' son. You killed your own
children's father, and they said you paid

683
00:50:59.679 --> 00:51:02.239
a man to do it. I
hate you, and I will hate you

684
00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:07.559
forever. End quote. That's crazy
to me that Sharon was happy that Laurie

685
00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:09.880
was coming to visit her, and
like she thought, Laurie was going to

686
00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:14.320
be happy to see her too.
When you're in jail, you're probably happy

687
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:17.960
to see about anyone that's going to
visit you. I guess. So what

688
00:51:19.079 --> 00:51:22.760
was Sharon's motive for all these crimes? Agreed? Right, I would say

689
00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:28.000
so. So by killing Glenn,
she would have owned his house, and

690
00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:30.679
he had over one hundred thousand dollars
in equity in his house, he had

691
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:37.159
a life insurance policy of thirty thousand
dollars, and he had his businesses too

692
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:40.360
that she would have gotten a part
of, and his pension would have paid

693
00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:45.159
her twelve hundred dollars a month for
the rest of her life. That's a

694
00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:49.400
lot of money. Yeah. On
November twentieth, nineteen eighty eight, Sharon

695
00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:52.400
and Gary were both arrested. They
were each charged with two counts of first

696
00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:59.039
degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and solicitation of murder. Sharon said

697
00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:01.559
she pleaded guilty to say spare her
children from a lengthy trial, but in

698
00:52:01.639 --> 00:52:05.840
all likelihood it was to avoid the
death penalty. Yeah, we know how

699
00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:10.320
much care Sharon cares about her children. So Gary maintained his innocence, but

700
00:52:10.320 --> 00:52:15.039
when Sharon planned to testify against him, he too pleaded guilty to avoid the

701
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:21.519
death penalty. They both received two
life sentences without the possibility of parole.

702
00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:28.679
So that is the story of Sharon
Lynne Douglas Fuller, Nelson Harlson. I

703
00:52:28.679 --> 00:52:31.280
have a few things to wrap up
here. Danny and Misty were raised by

704
00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:36.960
their older sisters. All of Perry's
children, including Danny and Misty, sued

705
00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:43.280
the life insurance company that had paid
Sharon years before after Perry's death. In

706
00:52:43.320 --> 00:52:47.199
Colorado, there's something called a slayer
statute which says that a person who murders

707
00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:52.320
someone cannot collect in the victim's life
insurance, which I think a lot of

708
00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:57.119
states must have something similar Yeah.
The lawsuit alleged that the insurance company had

709
00:52:57.159 --> 00:53:01.559
investigated Perry's death and they discovered so
several pieces of evidence and failed to inform

710
00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:07.239
the police. Among the evidence was
that Perry had not left Frinidad alone the

711
00:53:07.320 --> 00:53:12.760
night he disappeared, Sharon had purchased
five life insurance policies less than six weeks

712
00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:16.480
before his death, and that within
days of Parry's disappearance, Gary moved in

713
00:53:16.519 --> 00:53:22.719
with Sharon, and Sharon almost immediately
began selling Parry's possessions and assets. It's

714
00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:27.519
a lot of red flags. Well
was it that they the insurance company found

715
00:53:27.559 --> 00:53:30.840
these things out and didn't really inform
the police, Which is kind of wild

716
00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:34.320
that their investigation was more thorough than
the police. But I guess the police

717
00:53:34.320 --> 00:53:38.159
weren't really investigating Perry's death as suspicious, assuming it was an accident. Yeah,

718
00:53:39.639 --> 00:53:44.960
Perry's children won a settlement plus ten
years of interest, and they won

719
00:53:45.039 --> 00:53:47.239
five hundred and sixty five thousand dollars. I believe good for them, and

720
00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:52.960
they split it amongst themselves. Sharon
died in prison in twenty seventeen, and

721
00:53:53.119 --> 00:53:57.800
I'm not sure about Gary, but
I think he might still be alive.

722
00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:00.800
Do we know how Sharon died.
I think she died of being a horrible

723
00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:07.880
person. Well that makes sense.
Yeah. Sharon's daughter said that her favorite

724
00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:12.840
movie was Black Widow. She would
watch it over and over. It was

725
00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:17.920
a movie from nineteen eighty seven with
Deborah Winger and Dennis Hopper and yeah,

726
00:54:19.440 --> 00:54:22.519
Sharon just she really loved that movie. You know, we talk about this

727
00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:25.960
a lot, but like every every
woman killer seems to be labeled the black

728
00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:30.000
widow, it seems to fit in
this case because she had multiple She was

729
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:32.920
a double black widow. If you
kill one person or you still considered a

730
00:54:32.920 --> 00:54:37.039
black writer. I think there's got
to be a pattern there before you call

731
00:54:37.119 --> 00:54:39.719
somebody a black widow. But you
know, I don't make the rules.

732
00:54:40.440 --> 00:54:45.360
Rest in peace, Perry and Glenn. I'm sorry that you met Sharon,

733
00:54:45.559 --> 00:54:49.519
and I bet you are too.
Yeah. Why do you think Sharon was

734
00:54:49.559 --> 00:54:53.400
the way she was? It sounds
like she had a pretty bad upbringing,

735
00:54:53.639 --> 00:54:57.880
but I don't know, there's no
excuse really. Yeah, she was always

736
00:54:57.920 --> 00:55:01.760
seeking out that love that she didn't
eve when she was a child. I

737
00:55:01.760 --> 00:55:07.360
think it drove Sharon crazy that Gary
didn't want to marry her. He remained

738
00:55:07.400 --> 00:55:09.480
married to his wife the whole time. He wasn't loyal to her, but

739
00:55:09.559 --> 00:55:14.199
he was loyal to her and in
the aspect that he didn't want to divorce

740
00:55:14.280 --> 00:55:20.000
her. And I think Sharon really
wanted to marry him. Yeah, he

741
00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:23.800
was the one man that she couldn't
get to marry her. Right. I

742
00:55:23.800 --> 00:55:28.280
feel like I really wore you out
today. I have been worn out since

743
00:55:28.320 --> 00:55:30.239
I woke up this morning. So
it's not your fault. Yeah, we

744
00:55:30.280 --> 00:55:34.159
had the time change, so that
was he lost an hour of sleep.

745
00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:38.199
I know, it's always a little
disruptive. I think we owe the people

746
00:55:38.280 --> 00:55:45.440
of Colorado anthology, or do we
owe the people of Colorado an apology?

747
00:55:45.599 --> 00:55:51.320
I don't know. I mean if
someone if someone mispronounces Illinois, I mean

748
00:55:51.320 --> 00:55:55.480
I go after them. So we
have this thing sometimes where I'll say a

749
00:55:55.519 --> 00:55:58.880
word, I'm like, I don't
think that's right, and then you'll say

750
00:55:58.880 --> 00:56:04.079
it. I'm like, I don't
decided to go with Colorado Colorado. But

751
00:56:04.119 --> 00:56:10.679
then we listened to some pronunciation.
Yeah they said Colorado, And I apologize

752
00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:16.960
if you're not listening to this podcast
because we pronounced English flawlessly. How do

753
00:56:17.039 --> 00:56:22.519
people most commonly mispronounce Illinois? They
say the US Illinois. They don't say

754
00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:28.199
Illinois. Maybe, I mean,
that's kind of a nice pronunciation, but

755
00:56:28.280 --> 00:56:35.079
yeah, I don't really hear people's
mispronounced Michigan because you're Midwest. You're very

756
00:56:35.079 --> 00:56:37.000
familiar with Illinois because you grew up
in the Midwest and I grew up in

757
00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:42.719
the Midwest. So yeah, Colorado, we think it's Colorado. I know

758
00:56:42.760 --> 00:56:46.360
you're gonna let us know. And
the other one that we were talking about

759
00:56:46.760 --> 00:56:51.760
is Nevada. Nevada. Yeah,
I think same thing as Nevada. Well,

760
00:56:51.760 --> 00:56:54.519
I think sometimes I flip flop and
I shouldn't do that. I should

761
00:56:54.559 --> 00:57:01.519
stick with oneiation Harrelson, Harlson,
I'm a mess, I admit it.

762
00:57:02.880 --> 00:57:08.320
No wonder I get one star review. The last case we did was set

763
00:57:08.320 --> 00:57:13.000
in France, and so we had
a really good excuse me France for mispronouncing

764
00:57:13.039 --> 00:57:15.360
those names, but this one,
being in America, you would think you'd

765
00:57:15.920 --> 00:57:20.960
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766
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