they had got it. they d figured it out. but now, doug carlile was dead. and detectives tallied up the signs of his earthly wealth. still parked in the drive, elberta s new mercedes. doug s new pickup. and inside in doug s office, documents detailing the family s fortune. there was a lot of financial paperwork. and the ones that struck me immediately was there was loan paperwork that it appeared mr. carlile had filled out for different businesses and they had his net value at between 6 and 12 million depending which piece of paper you looked at. and then there were the documents the detectives couldn t read. that is, the ones written in arabic. who was doug carlile? successful, god-fearing businessman? or what? coming up i remember him telling us, you know, i m going to make millions of dollars, and this is going to be it.
against the phone records they had acquired back when mr. clark disappeared and mr. suckow s number was in those records. meaning suckow was in the area when casey clark disappeared. sarah, meanwhile, her marriage falling apart, had begun to harbor suspicions about james, and not just his cheating ways. it went back to the day james told her about doug carlisle s death. he walked into the room, doug s dead, straight face, nothing. it was the strangest thing ever. did you think at the time i wonder if james had something to do with this? you know, it seemed fishy to me. it did, but again, your life is already crumbling, you don t want to think your husband could be doing anything like that. what did you get out of that marriage? i was scared of him, you know. everyone wants the fairy tale,
anywhere. yeah the case? well, they knew they had something but what exactly? it was just one of those cases where we knew we were on the right track, but we also knew that there was a lot of work left. and for the carliles, a lot of grief. alberta was a barely functioning mess. i didn t lose just my dad. i lost my mom, too. because she wasn t the same person for a really long time. and adding insult, doug s secrets were exposed for the whole world to see. that big house on the south hill, heavily mortgaged. the fancy cars not paid for. the paperwork that claimed he was worth millions, a facade. doug carlile was flat broke. hadn t even bought life insurance. do you ever feel angry at all at doug for not providing more for like a insurance policy or something? no, not at all. because he was a very good provider all the days that he was alive.
if he hears, me he is going to shoot. me but was this the beginning of the story? or the end? this spokane police detective were pulled into the strangest case of their careers. it was the most unique homicide, i had investigated, and i knew that from the first moments of my involvement. really? just two knew it was cessna coup drove over first to the address on south hill. a place of homicide detective can go a whole career without him a single time. the house, it is in a very upper class neighborhood. in south hill, that is like where you want to be. right. the street isn t, i had never been to before. why would you, as a homicide invective? there is just not crime up there in general. the home, the detective learned, learn to a businessman named doug carlisle and his wife of many years, elberta.
they loved their grandpa. he was the greatest to all three of them. they had really good relationships with them. it was a relationship that almost wasn t for any of them. doug and bertie, as he liked to call her, were teenaged sweethearts, married young. and as often happens, even as their family grew their marriage shriveled. what happened? life happens. bertie found god. doug did not. the closer i got to the lord, it s like the further we got apart. until it became clear to bertie, she won t go into detail, that she and doug were doomed, unless i did something drastic. i left him without his knowledge. take the kids with you? of course. so you went off on your own with four kids. mm-hm. no job, no nothing. yeah. to a city i didn t know.