accused doug of being less than honest and of not paying his bills. how would doug react to those? he never gave up. and we always took care of what we owed. and we would move forward. and, as he entered mid-life. doug carlile seemed content doing deals while his sons shane and seth ran the business. he d give the shirt off his back to anybody. he had a huge heart. enough room in it for everybody. huge heart. and taught you what you know. absolutely. every aspect of business. every aspect of life. when the kids were grown, doug and bertie ended up in spokane, to be near their favorite church, whose pastor preached the prosperity gospel, that god rewards belief with financial success. they certainly looked successful when they bought that sprawling house on the hill. they wanted to get an older house like that.
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. to seattle. 350 miles from the little town in oregon where they lived back then. her church kept her going. while doug well, here s the story according to bertie. he kept guns, said bertie, lots of them. and lost and alone, he decided to use one on himself. as he crawled toward the guns, he said he heard this horrid voice that said he s mine. and then he heard another voice that said no, he s not. he belongs to me.
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about a masked man killing her husband of 42 years. it almost seemed like it was rehearsed or like she thought about this and what could i say? rehearsed is a good word. it sounded that way to you? yes, it did. but you don t have to take it from the detective. we were able to arrange an interview with elberta, too. my whole life was over as i knew it. elberta told us that when she and her husband returned from church that evening they drove through the gate of their property as usual. he says i ll get the gate, you get the door. did everything look pretty much the same as when you left? no. no. it just didn t feel right. i started heading up the stairs and i got all the way to the top of the stairs and i started down the hall when i heard muffled voices. headed right down the stairs, i got back to the bottom of the stairs and i called out to doug, doug, is somebody here ? and i looked to my left. the man was standing right in
floods of phony tears. so he paid careful, experienced attention when elberta carlile told him what happened that sunday evening in the house on south hill. what happened tonight? we went to church. then we went to a church function. nothing i don t know what happened. hell happened. a nightmare happened. that s what happened. okay. and elberta s story, said detective burbridge, just didn t add up. all of a sudden i hear it s okay, it s okay. then i hear back off, back off, back off! and when i heard the back off, i saw, i looked and saw a man standing there in all black. her story was concerning about a masked man wearing all black, coming into the house