and our suspect list kept growing. how many partners did that guy have anyway? about ten that we could find, there may be more. detective burbridge began calling doug s partners and discovered most of them lived in or around washington. any one of them who could be considered a person of interest was hundreds or thousands of miles away from spokane the night doug was murdered. i don t believe in coincidences like that. coincidences that they were not there? correct. in other words, they planned to be not there when something was going to happen? yes, sir. where do you go and who do you target? i was running this investigation trying to eliminate business partners. did mr. carlile have a secret life? he had a lot of failed business dealings in his other businesses. so i had a lot of concerns. angry ex-business partners? angry current business partners? what, if anything did she have
the exclusive right to drill for oil on 640 acres of land on the mha indian reservation. the catch was that sort of opportunity doesn t come cheap. so you had to raise some money. oh, yeah. the lease was almost $2 million. and to raise that, doug carlile tapped his business partners and even his kids. i put $100,000 in it. it wasn t for a return or anything. it was to help him with his dream to fulfill that. but the next step to fulfilling doug s dream was even more daunting. finding investors to pay for drilling as many as eight wells on the property and that price was much steeper, more than $100 million, but the potential payoff was immense. and doug firmly believed god s will, a reward for his faith. we thought we were walking on water. you know, with the whole deal. we thought this is a miracle.
and christmas happened. sort of. it was really a rough christmas. i look back on pictures. we had smiles on our faces but you weren t really smiling. and my mom, it was so hard to watch her. she wanted to give the grandkids gifts but she was almost like a zombie. you can t not have christmas, you know, but nobody felt like it. but grief wasn t all the family was feeling. the debilitating fear took hold, too. whoever killed their patriarch might not be done. we armed ourselves. i spent about $10,000 on a security camera system around the house. went out and bought an attack dog, german shepherd. meanwhile detectives hit the road and that s when they discovered something truly shocking. doug carlile wasn t the only victim of the weird goings on around the oil patch. coming up. for this investigator, a tantalizing tip at his finger tips.
or a dead end? hard to know. so burbridge and his team of investigators kept working other leads. and christmas happened. sort of. it was really a rough christmas. i look back on pictures. we had smiles on our faces but you weren t really smiling. and my mom, it was so hard to watch her. she wanted to give the grandkids gifts but she was almost like a zombie. you can t not have christmas, you know, but nobody felt like it. but grief wasn t all the family was feeling. the debilitating fear took hold, too. whoever killed their patriarch might not be done. we armed ourselves. i spent about $10,000 on a security camera system around the house. went out and bought an attack dog, german shepherd. meanwhile detectives hit the road and that s when they discovered something truly shocking. doug carlile wasn t the only victim of the weird goings on
real lead? or a dead end? hard to know. so burbridge and his team of investigators kept working other leads. and christmas happened. sort of. it was really a rough christmas. i look back on pictures. we had smiles on our faces but you weren t really smiling. and may moy mom, it was so hard watch her. she wanted to give the grandkids gifts but she was almost like a zombie. you can t not have christmas, you know, but nobody felt like it. but grief wasn t all the family was feeling. the debilitating fear took hold, too. whoever killed their patriarch might not be done. we armed ourselves. i spent about $10,000 on a security camera system around the house. went out and bought an attack dog, german shepherd. meanwhile detectives hit the road and that s when they discovered something truly shocking. doug carlile wasn t the only victim of the weird goings on