case is solved. but shortly after telling the police that jim had probably killed himself the phone rang again. it was greyhound bus lines in houston, texas. they found a bag that was left on the bus with jim s name on it with a bottle of crown royal, his clothes and a gun in it. how long when did you hear from him? i got a phone call from my attorney saying they d heard from jim and that jim was in a motel down in houston. the lawyer put jean in touch with jim and filled her in on his latest plan, a plan that could only succeed if jean agreed to send jim money. his plan was to get across the border and go from there. and so i sent him yet more money and allowed him to, you know, get out of the country. which wasn t at that point a crime since there were no charges against him. at this point, no.
force and so the next time the caller phoned detective beach was ready. he was asking me were you able to do anything with what i gave you. i said yeah, i think i m looking at a picture of you and the phone went quiet and he said you guys are good. we re not good. it was simple google searching. at last, the detectives had a solid lead. one that raised plenty of questions. who was this jim huden and why was their tipster so willing to give him up? the cops knew the answers to those questions couldn t be found in a google search. they would have to fly to southwest florida at a time of year when violent storm clouds always seem to luck just over the horizon. coming up, was this a case of love turned lethal? detectives learn about an affair between this beauty queen. she was a whole lot of gorgeous woman. and a guitar man with a dark side. jim at one point had told me
plumberg s partner on the investigation mike beach took the call. he just said hey, i m calling to see if you have unsolved homicides from december 2003, and i said yes, sir, we actually have two in december of 2003. which one are you referring to? he says the guy who got shot in the head. beach says he didn t know if the caller was the killer or someone related to the killer, but he knew he didn t want to lose it. i m doing everything i can to keep this gentleman on the phone because at that point he still hadn t given me his name. the caller was using an untraceable calling card and on the phone he seemed nervous. he said if i told you what i know the shooter s going to know that i told you. that first call lasted more than an hour, but the cops learned neither the name of the caller nor the killer. he was still afraid to give us any more information so i m
while vacationing in british columbia. we drove across the border in our friend s vehicle, and my phone had a seizure. it started buzzing for every voicemail message and text message that had been sent, and it s, matt, call me, matt, call me, matt, call me. with within days of his death, russell s far-flung family revisited on widbe island. she stayed in her bedroom a lot. she definitely was sad. nothing seemed to be getting done, so i kind of ended up taking over the organization of the house, what do we do for meals. russell douglas had left behind a lot of unfinished business. the oldest of three children born to jim and gail before they divorced, russell had been a late bloomer. but adulthood intruded early.
to mexico. you call her first or she called you? no. she called me. what did she want to talk about? well, she wanted to know how much the cops had been bugging me and what they knew and if i had heard from jim or anything like that. and you, what? told her? i told her what the cops had said. i didn t tell her anything about jim. why did you not hang up the phone? i don t know. i don t know. this isn t even jim. this is jim s mistress. i know. i m an idiot. jim asked her to fly out to vegas to meet peggy face-to-face and keep her in the loop. we did have jim in common. i never told her where he was. i did tell her i knew he was okay. it was just very weird. we went out and had drinks and saw a band, and i really found it hard to hate her as much as i wanted to. as months passed and jim