a complex and massive fraud and fake disability claims. how do you and your agents ever encountered anyone as complex the fraudulent? i ll never work another case like this in my career. but another sinister detail was about to unfold. family and friends were only finding out about the fraud over early morning coffee, martha ann s best friend debbie was reading her newspaper. i m thinking to myself, this cannot be true. this cannot be true. so i start yelling at the top of my lungs. jim! get up! you have to see this. debbie s husband, jim, is a marine veteran. they couldn t believe what they were reading. fooled the federal government, stole money from the veterans. was it money that mattered? no it was the fact that they got it out of a veterans pockets that need it. that is that just sticks in my
we were just like in disbelief. what had happened to her last husband? whoever did this was very evil. the hurt, the anger. it makes you question everybody. it seems alive, somehow, here in the foothills of tennessee s appalachians. the creeping tendrils of mountain mist that snake and swirl. like lies. there is gold in there, somewhere, so they say. the sort of place where you could strike it rich, or maybe get away with murder.
it will make you feel close to a person? it did. then he tried, in vain, to ease martha anne s grief. i will talk about fun things we did with bob. that wouldn t happen anymore. then i would start balling, then she would start falling with me. to make it even worse, bob s best friend chuck had been taking away by sheriff s deputies. debbie watched as martha anne trying to deal with her own sorrow as she planned her husband s funeral, anxious at the same time for her friend, that the small town cops had the wrong idea about chuck. i said, you know, this was bob s best buddy. you are grieving for bob, now you have to take care of chuck. a tough situation. it was about to get tougher. courtesy of the sheriff deputy travis jones. something strange here, he thought. he in the other detectives. they held chuck for questioning.
honorable thing to do the bob while you are planning and killing him while slipping with his wife? i wasn t killing him. you won t killing him. while you were letting him die and slipping with his wife. yes. i think there were evil but the root of their evil was their greed. there it was. martha had poisoned bob and truck was her willing servant. match made in. hell they wanted money. close to $1 million. the motive? they wanted to be together. and they wanted. money how much money? close to 1 million dollars. the prosecution rested with a scathing indictment of martha and. to have your husband die in stages thinking that he was losing his mind because you keep overdosing with these drugs until you get to the fatal dose. and it s hard to comprehend how some people can be that evil. how would the jury judge martha? the jury was out for quite
and up to 4 hours of battery back-up to keep you online. only from xfinity. amazing, isn t it? home of the xfinity 10g network. how life can change on a dime? in the spring of 2006, martha ann was burying her husband, a great love, bob mcclancy. by the end of the year though, she had rebuilt her life and had a new partner, chuck. in the meantime, bob sister kathy had questions for martha ann about chuck, but couldn t reach him. what with the state department, travel schedule, and air duties i wanted to give him the