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was offloading the secrets of a lifetime. didn t hold back yes, she killed larry. her husband of nearly seven years, she said. but it wasn t her idea. i said, i don t know what i m going to do. and she said, we have to kill him. and i said, i can t kill him. she said? who was this other woman who pushed elisa to commit murder? turned out detectives had already talked with her. remember sarah dutra, the young secretary elisa s friend who came back with her little dog who had been so helpful after elisa disappeared? now saying that killing larry was sarah s idea. i never would have done it on my own. elisa told the story this way. larry was a heavy drinker and drug user. he was abusive, she claimed and feared for her life. one day he divided in her young friend, sarah, and sarah said
when i first got this case, people will tell you that s what i was saying. poor, sarah. but as i got deeper in the case, i totally turned around. but i started with that very mindset. as he reviewed the evidence, he became convinced that sarah dutra was, in fact, the woman in charge. she didn t like sarah. she accused him of being self centered. so sarah didn t lair au larry didn t want sarah around. that s exactly it. it was a love triangle and one of them-to go. larry was simply in the way.
off the scent. they drove me to the border in canada to make it look like i had jumped the border to see if james would chase me. he did not. but where was he? no one seemed to know. with sarah close enough so they could actually see her, investigators tried to track her husband s phone. you re sitting in a homeland security office and listening to them ping him across the state. he s on the run, he s on the move. a car backfired in the parking lot and all these agents pull their guns out and run to the windows, because they didn t know if james was in town. it s a surreal thing. even if they found him, though, they couldn t charge him with murder or conspiracy. didn t have enough evidence for that. but they did have something quite useful. a few days earlier, a search warrant enhanced federal and state agents descended on james and sarah s empty house while they were out of town.
one of james employees, a man named casey clark had up and disappeared. i printed it off and handed it to mark and said hey, what do you think about this? what did you think about that? it was the first time we had ever heard of that name. so who was casey clark? he was funny, well-mannered. didn t take long to find out. casey was an old friend of james henrikson. he moved to the oil patch specifically to work for henrikson at blackstone, james trucking company. rick airy knew him well. so what did you do, the two of you? we d go up to the bar and chase the girls. do the normal things guys do during the boom. rick and casey were field superintendents for the trucking company which sarah was helping to run. how were you involved with the business? i worked with the accountant, to make sure think got signed off to make sure they got paid and i was sort of the middleman for the paperwork. so you were really kind of a