i was looking for documents or text messages or e-mails. like an onion he peeled book the layers of texts which though they d been deleted reappeared under his expert touch. boxes of deleted documents, 88,000 of them, buried deep inside michelle s hard drive. and out spilled some of michelle s most intimate sexual secrets. she seemed to be seeking affairs with a number of people over time. she was looking for an alternative lifestyle. she was seeking a partner escort for sexual clubs. that would be carolina friends, a swingers club. it boasted more than 10,000 members. and within michelle s lengthy list of e-mails detectives also discovered that not so innocent inquiry she typed seeking a rendezvous man. that was john diamond, of course, who replied and who the e-mail trail revealed quickly joined michelle in the lifestyle. she was taking him to these sex clubs and saying, it s okay, go, you know, if you want to
it was a week before christmas, 2000, and fayetteville was aglow, but not everywhere with the lights of christmas. and a few hours after air force captain marty, theer turned up dead in the parking lot of his wife s office building, the news was out and it was big. michelle theer, now marty s grieving widow, told the police she was inside her office looking for a book when she heard someone firing outside. by all counts it was an assassination. greg buckner was a deputy district attorney at the time. someone would kill marty theer, that night, no evidence of robbery, no evidence of any other thing going on here. inside michelle s office, what they found seemed, well, a little odd. maybe. she d gone to the bathroom. the toilet had not been flushed. they found a candy wrapper opened and in the trash can. it was almost like a scene where