that summer, home from college, he d taken a weekend trip with old friends and returned on sunday. with a nightmare waiting. my mom was hysterical and my brother was crying as well. hearing your dad is gone. and you re like, what? what do you mean he s gone? did they tell you he was murdered? i don t think they use the term murdered right away. like he d been shot. noah knew more than most the ways grief can drag a family down. though it had begun, the stout family saga, so well. bill, his apparently murdered father, had grown up in california. farm country, central valley. it s where he met and married anne. adopted her little boy, ben. noah and matt soon followed and they idolized big brother ben.
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the spent shell landed by that plant. one of those little flowers gets into the box. she puts the box back, and, the botanist narrowed the time that plant blooms to about a ten-day window of time. it all happened within ten days, or so, of bill s death. that s right around the time that is reporting the kind of missing. exactly. and, after she killed bill? i have every reason to believe, simply, she carried the weapon out into the garage. wrap it in a towel, stuck in the handbag. oh, and, there was insurance, to. a half million. the beneficiary? anne. so, the affair with barbara miller, the 500,000 in insurance money. an angry woman, scorned. if you had to pick a motive here, what was it? it s difficult to ascribe a single motive. the question that stands out is, what would motivate someone to
the one living in fear, not of bill, but of bill s wife, anne. i m very scared of her. i don t want to upset her. i don t want to be involved in this. scared? of sweet, kind hearted, anne stout? please. but that s what she claimed. barbara miller told those detectives that after the affair with bill broke off, it was she who started getting and series of unnerving emails and phone calls, from anne. or so she said. what was the nature of the conversations? was she angry? were they friendly? as far as i can remember, she was trying to be calm about it. it i could hear the animosity animosity and the anger come through. she was trying not to get that come out. i didn t want to be rude. it was almost like she wanted to be my friend. i didn t want to be her friend. but i didn t want to hurt her
handgun is missing and he s concerned, because he knows, or he believes that there s this lady out there who won t leave him alone. stalking him. well, there s been evidence that she s been right there at the house. right. tapping on the window. right. putting feces on the car. eggs. yes, it s very clear that this deeply affected bill. he was worried. and now bill was dead. sheriff s detectives received calls from nearly a dozen friends and family after bill, about the woman in arkansas. her name? barbara miller. my reaction was, we ve got a murderer running around. put out a dragnet. find this woman. there were people all the way from here in montana to down in california that were pointing their finger at barbara miller. yes. did that angry woman have something to do with what happened to bill stout? barbara miller of arkansas was about to receive a visit from