home only briefly, and come back to find vicky shot. his gun cleaning kit lay right beside her. he said before he left, he took his gun out, and he was gonna clean it. because vicky and him were gonna go to the range in the next day. he told me, she must of been trying to clean my gun, because she likes to tinker with stuff. and she may have tried to clean my gun, and it may have accidentally went off. police photos show the grisly result. her wound was fatal. vicky was gone. her mother arrived home later that evening, to a crowd of investigators. the castle she helped pay for had now become her daughter s coffin and it fell to richard to break the news. oh no, not my vicky. not my vicky. and she sobs whaling and, bobby what happened. she s screaming at him, you never forget the sound of a mother who s lost her child, the whaling of that sound. somehow, in the middle of all that grief, viki mother