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months. she may have forged rob s signature on the life insurance policy, making her the beneficiary. her first attempt on rob s life involved cutting rob s brake lines. police believe it was james pavatt who called rob with the fake story that brenda was in critical condition at the hospital. when that didn t work, the couple devised an elaborate shooting scenario. they planned to kill rob when he came to pick up the children for the holiday weekend. on the night of the murder, pavatt hid behind the van in the garage. when they heard rob s car, they set the plan in motion. rob walked into the garage expecting to see the children. instead, brenda asked him to fix the furnace while she got them
rob andrew, salt of the earth. i mean, this was a christian man, attended church all the time, loving father. just a great guy, very successful businessman as well. two days before thanksgiving, rob andrew left work to pick up his children. they planned to spend the holiday weekend with his parents. on the way, rob called his best friend. rob had called my house around 5:30, telling me how hurried he had been all day and that he was looking forward to picking the kids up and spending a long weekend with them for thanksgiving. rob didn t plan to stay long, so he parked his car in the driveway. i heard the overhead garage door start up and then rob paused and said, hey, i m going to have to let you go. as he walked into the garage, his wife, brenda, asked him to relight the furnace because it had gone out earlier in the day.
mail. fortunately, the man didn t go upstairs or he might have been killed, too. investigators never found the murder weapon, but they did find some important information. during our investigation, we also found that mr. pavatt had purchased a .22-caliber pistol at a local gun store with the use of a credit card about a month before the homicide. everything was a piece of a puzzle. all of those little things out there by themselves meant nothing, but when you started laying it all out, clicking the pieces together, making the matches, it just started pointing. there s no way this woman couldn t have been involved. brenda andrew and james pavatt were both charged with first-degree murder and were tried separately. pavatt s trial was first. we the jury having heretofore found the defendant james pavatt guilty of murder in the first degree.
extramarital affairs. mr. andrew was convinced at this point that his insurance salesman, mr. pavatt, and his wife were having an affair. 48-year-old james pavatt taught sunday school with brenda, and they flaunted their relationship, even in front of rob s children. james and brenda had a very interesting relationship. i mean, even prior to rob s death, the two of them went on a vacation together down to texas with the children. i don t know of any husband who would willingly just say okay to his wife going down to mexico with a complete stranger and taking his kids with them. just a few months before his murder, rob demanded that brenda end her affair with pavatt. brenda refused and filed for divorce. rob immediately changed the beneficiary of his $800,000 life insurance policy.