how to be a real person. sounds like you liked bob? i liked bob a lot. in 1995, bob and martha and got married. and on holidays, bob sister kathy got closer to martha and. we would go out shopping, that was our big thanksgiving. bobby would stay home, the girls would just take off and go shopping. bob and martha and retired in the late 90s, left florida, and bought a big secluded hillside cabin in east of tennessee in the shadow of the smoky mountains. not far from where martha and grew up in coaker by then, shawn engine had their own family and visited from time to time. bob especially. oh yeah. he would treat our kids great. he was fond of them? he was the real deal. martha and went back to work, accounting job. she loved numbers.
how life can change on a dime? in the spring of 2006, martha and 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 you the best denim fifth of the doubt, but at the time when i told my oldest sister what was going on, she said oh, there is more to the story. kathy still wanted answers about her brother s death but, you know how people can start to sound like broken records? i think why family, friends, probably everybody was tired of hearing me say this isn t right, i know something had to have
loved animals. but the menagerie was too much for martha and. so her son, shawn, helped her downsize. bob had an animal rescue in his home. he had seven dogs. a couple of cats, chickens, some goats. she started to get rid of all of these animals as soon as he had passed away. then there were other changes. weeks after bob s death, martha and invited debbie and her husband to celebrate chuck s birthday. dinner at chuck s place. when we got there, martha and dining room set was in chucks dining room. what did you think when you saw that? i said, your furniture is up here? and she said it s certainly suits his house a whole lot better than mine. but they are just? friends they are friends. they are. friends still, how close were they getting? i called her one day and i
what, and why? then, out came the investigators, smiles on their faces, chuck talked. that was kind of like the combination of everything, knowing that what we had suspected was correct. nate understood falwell. the state was set for an epic, he said, she said, battle between two major league con artists. they couldn t know which story would win. nate was pretty sure the one finally telling the truth was chuck. we didn t suspect it anymore, now we know. in november 2015, in madison ville tennessee, martha and my clancy went on trial mcclancy went on trial. she was charged with conspiracy to commit first degree murder. matthew rogers was there to defend ann conspiring with her lumberjack, to make bob s death look like a
that is proven and documented. i was in a position to attack his credibility, that was very hard. it was chuck who forged bobs, wilson martha and. she went along with it because of the content of the whale was what bob wanted. that was initially chuck s idea? it was chuck s idea, he did it. you acknowledged they had gone along with that. i did go along with it. she had no idea, she said, that chuck was planning to take those awful pictures. and one question about the flashy government job she told bob sister kathy about in washington d.c., martha and simply scoffed and said it was a joke. i mean, it was just a hoax that s all in the world that was. it was a hoax to, more or less, get her to stop bugging me. attorney rodgers took martha and back to the day bob died and a normal day, she said.