during the week, james and rachel were together almost constantly. we tried to spend as much as time as possible we could together. what d it feel like when you did? it felt like we were family, felt like we were one one heartbeat. europe, our hearts were intertwined together like i can t describe. indescribable love, never loved someone so intensely in my life. their children were soon in on the secret. katelynn was beguiled by rachel. you could be talking to her, like we re talking, and she would make you feel like the most important human being on this earth. how did that make you feel? special. loved. i could open up to her. if todd suspected anything he didn t let on. but rachel s dad, don, began to get a queasy feeling during his visits to the airpark. tell me what you thought about him, at the time. he came across as this christian guy. and he you know, he s helping rachel. yeah.
i didn t like the fact that here s a marriage in trouble. and there s guy s will prey on that, you know? if he s a gentleman, he says, i ll wait in the wings. and if this flies, fine. but you know, he didn t. no. apparently, nothing could keep the lovers apart. james emailed rachel, hey, my love. i miss you something awfully bad. i ve be crying on and off since sunday. i m dying inside. my heart is shattered. i love you endlessly my sweet love. no, this wasn t over. not the affair. not the marriage, either.. and not the confrontation. something was coming. watch out. 9-1-1, what s your emergency? i m calling to report a fatality. where did this occur? it s in the cameron park airpark. coming up i was in my yard and saw the
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airpark that last sunday of february 2012. todd and rachel winkler s marital issues did not noticeably ruffle the surface of normal suburban life. a neighbor bumped into todd that afternoon. he stopped and talked to us for, you know, a couple a minutes and, you know, wished us well and kept going. he was pushing the two strollers with all three kids and he didn t look particularly cheerful. todd had no way of knowing that sunday afternoon that rachel was back at james mountain house, double-checking her divorce application. she finished the paperwork and she says i m going fax him the next morning. you re continuing the relationship. she is filling out divorce papers. he s trying to block her. she s determined to do it. uh-huh. she turned to me that day, she say, you know what, james? whether you re in the picture or not, i m divorcing todd. i want out. whether you re in the picture or not? but was there some doubt about that? no. she said the reason why she wants to b
james and katelynn set up house together here in the foothills of the sierra nevada mountains, coincidentally, just a few miles from rachel and todd winkler s airpark. james started a handyman business and again, pure coincidence, got some jobs at the airpark. he also started a website called ammosmith.com. not so much about guns as about the craft of creating custom ammunition. we have an automatic pistol that shoots a rimmed revolver cartridge. and that was his life in the spring of 2010, a nicely varied little business. a second marriage, that was not going terribly well, oh, and he had a secret mad crush on the beautiful young woman who managed the airpark. rachell winkler. and then one day she called me into her office. this is in june, beginning of june of 2010. she said, have a seat. and i said, okay. i thought i was in trouble.