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The amazing drama you're about to see is a matter of human record.

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You may believe it or not, but the real people who lived this story, they believe it.

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They know.

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They took that one step beyond.

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It begins here, in the elite bar and grill, with a wedding party.

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There's not one thing that sets Sally and Matt Conroy apart from all the other couples

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who were married today in the United States.

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Not a thing.

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Not yet.

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Hey, when are we going to get out of here?

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Come on, baby.

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How about that Georgie boy, eh, Matt?

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He hasn't had that much exercise since he dumped that load of grapefruit up on the ridge

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road.

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Hey, looks like that little gal of yours could keep on dancing all night, Matt.

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Not if I have anything to say about it.

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Sorry, baby, when I get going, I get carried away.

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Hey, why don't you take it easy, you big logger?

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You all right, Sal?

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Oh, I think so.

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Let's try it again.

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I was just getting warmed up.

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Hey, back in the stag line, Georgie boy, you've had it.

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My turn to dance with the bride.

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Oh, I'd just love to dance with all you gentlemen again.

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Yeah, but they won't hold our room after nine if we don't get there.

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Oh, that'd be a shame.

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Oh, we want to thank you for the party, fellas.

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Just one last round for the road on me.

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Hey, Tommy, say, how'd Conroy ever find you down among those bayous, honey?

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Well, he transported my cousin's belongings when she moved back home a couple months ago.

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And, well, one thing led to another.

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Here I am.

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How do you like it?

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Oh, I love it.

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I've never been northeast or west of Louisiana before in my entire life.

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Well, no one would know it in the way you talk, honey child.

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Come on, Sal, let's get going.

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Well, thanks again for the party, fellas.

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Say, Matt, don't we get a chance to kiss the bride?

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Yeah.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Hey, what were you dreaming about?

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I don't know.

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Why?

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Well, you were making all sorts of funny faces and funny noises.

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Couldn't I look awful?

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You couldn't look awful if you tried.

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Of course, you look a lot better when you smile.

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How much further is it?

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Why?

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Why are you going to be so tired from all this driving?

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I mean, I sure wish I knew how to drive so I could help you.

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You're just going to have to learn, that's all.

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It's nutty for somebody to live in California and not know how to drive a car.

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What's the matter?

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Huh?

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What's the matter?

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I don't know, nothing.

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Those crazy guys down at Tommy's, you sure knocked them for a loop.

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I guess you know that.

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Of course, you kind of knocked me for a loop, too.

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Can I tell you, I'm sure glad your cousin decided to go back to Louisiana and call NorCal Van and Storage.

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Matt, if we turn left about a mile ahead, it's a prettier drive.

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How'd you know that?

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It's beautiful and wild and secluded.

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There's a hill straight ahead, just past those pines.

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Go up the hill.

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How in the world did you know? Never mind, never mind.

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That's it. Eagle Point's just ahead.

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Eagle Point?

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Turn right.

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Be careful.

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There's a fallen tree across the road.

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Hey, wait for me!

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Sally.

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What's the matter with you?

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Sally, what in the world's the matter with you?

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Who are you?

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Oh, come on, Sally, stop kidding.

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Will you please take your hands off me?

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Sally?

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Sally!

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Sally!

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Sally!

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I don't know, her voice sounded so different, she looked so different.

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I don't know.

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Well, there aren't many roads through here. Shouldn't take us long to find her.

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How would she know about a place like this?

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Never been up here before in her life, I'm sure of it.

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Why would she kid me about driving a car?

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She looked so different.

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Now that's mighty strange.

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What are the lights doing out in the Wharton place?

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Is that your car?

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Yeah.

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I wonder what Sally's doing here.

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Beats me, mister.

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Who lives here?

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Nobody now.

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Well, how come the electricity's still on?

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The stay hasn't been settled yet.

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The girl who used to live here jumped from a place called Eagle Point a couple weeks ago.

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Eagle Point?

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Kinda gives me the creeps a nice girl like that committing suicide.

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What a mess.

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Had to make identification from dental records and stuff like that.

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No!

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No!

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No.

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What are you trying to do, scare me?

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I didn't.

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You better do what you silly dame out of bed she wants.

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I didn't kill myself.

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Sally.

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I didn't jump.

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Sally.

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I didn't jump.

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I was murdered.

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I was murdered.

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I was murdered.

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I was murdered.

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Sally.

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Sally.

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How much longer is this gonna go on?

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Is what going to go on, Mr. Conroy?

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Every time she wakes up it's another sedative, another shot.

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Is that the only thing you can do for her, keep her asleep?

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Yes, Mr. Conroy.

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It's been 24 hours.

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Look, I could feed her sleeping pills myself.

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Mr. Conroy, your wife was quite violent when you brought her in here, quite incoherent.

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Every time she wakes up she tries to run away.

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Now how would you suggest that we restrain her?

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Would you prefer a straight jacket?

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You haven't even told me what's wrong with her.

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Well, what's wrong with her?

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I don't know.

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Well, when will you know?

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Do you see that library?

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Every mental and emotional disturbance known to medicine is described somewhere in these books.

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Your wife's case is not among them.

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Well, then I'll just have to go to some other hospital where there'll be somebody who can help her.

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That's your privilege, Mr. Conroy.

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I don't think it will solve anything.

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I'm going to be quite frank with you.

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That young woman you brought in here is not going to be...

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That young woman? What do you mean, that young woman?

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She's my wife!

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She's not your wife!

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Does this sound like your wife?

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Alex, I've told you there's no time.

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Why are you doing this to me?

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Why are you keeping me here?

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To try to make you well, Mrs. Conroy.

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Why do you keep calling me that?

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Because that's your name.

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My name is Karen, you know that.

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Alex, please, why won't you help me?

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I'm trying to help you, Mrs. Conroy.

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There is no Karen Wharton.

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Karen Wharton is dead.

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Karen Wharton committed suicide.

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No! No!

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I was murdered, you must believe me!

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I was murdered! I was murdered!

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Alex, please, Alex, there isn't any time.

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Why won't you help me?

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Please, please, please!

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Alex, Alex, listen to me.

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Listen to me, I'll be calm.

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I promise, please, Alex, I'll be calm.

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I'll be calm.

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My name is Karen Wharton.

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I was born in Fort Washakie, Wyoming,

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on February 10th, 1935.

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My mother's name is Mary Louise.

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My father, Philip Joseph Wharton,

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died of pneumonia on April 12th, 1939.

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Your wife, Ellen, drowned at the Fourth of July picnic

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in 1941 at Lake Etna.

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And four years ago at the Harvest Moon Ball

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at the Country Club.

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You asked me to marry you, Alex.

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Never mind, nurse.

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Who murdered you?

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Dan Stapler.

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Dan Stapler? Why?

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Because I wouldn't give him a divorce.

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Dan Stapler isn't married.

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We were married secretly last year in Mexicali.

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Why secretly?

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You know why.

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Mother hated him.

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And she was right.

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His passion cooled considerably when he found out that

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none of Daddy's money was in my name.

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Then why didn't you give him a divorce?

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Because I loved him.

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I would have been anything he wanted me to be

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if he'd only loved me.

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I can't tell you how mortifying it was.

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How revolted I was when I saw him at the beach

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with other women.

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And at parties.

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I loathed him and I loathed myself because later,

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when he'd come to me,

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when he'd touch me...

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Regarding your inquiry, Daniel Stapler married to Karen Horton,

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this city, June 11, 1956.

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Mexicali Hall of Records.

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Well, can't there be some sort of explanation?

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Maybe she read about the death in a newspaper.

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Well, couldn't it just be a coincidence?

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Well, what is it?

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Some sort of psychic hocus-pocus or something?

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Is that what you're trying to tell me?

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Well, I don't know.

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I don't know.

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Some sort of psychic hocus-pocus or something?

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Is that what you're trying to tell me?

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You'd hardly expect a psychiatrist to tell you a thing like that.

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Why did he murder you?

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Because he found somebody who did have money.

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That night.

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Go on.

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It had been weeks since I'd seen him.

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He dropped by that night without any notice at all.

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And the famous Stapler charm was in full bloom again.

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And of course I fell for it again.

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Dan always had a divine sense of timing.

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He told me his real reason for the visit,

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that he wanted a divorce.

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While he was making love to me.

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I told him I'd never divorce him.

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Not ever.

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And then he behaved like a six-year-old child having a temper tantrum.

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He cried out that I cheated him.

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Ruined his life.

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He stomped his feet.

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And his voice screeched like a petulant woman.

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He looked so ridiculous.

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He suddenly looked so ridiculous that I started to laugh.

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I suppose it was hysteria more than anything else, but I couldn't stop.

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He turned very white and came at me.

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He struck me with his fist.

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And before I could tell him that,

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yes, yes, yes, you can have your divorce,

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he killed me.

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How?

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It wasn't a pleasant death, Alex.

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I didn't die quickly.

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Finally, he crushed my skull with something heavy.

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And then he took my body to Eagle Point

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and flung it off the edge to make it appear as suicide.

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Alex, do you believe me?

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How can I, Mrs. Conroy?

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But you must. I'm not Mrs. Conroy.

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He mad at me. I can prove it. I can prove it.

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Alex, listen to me. I can prove it. I can make it.

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Let me go. I can make you believe me. Let me go.

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Listen to me, Alex. No.

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Nurse.

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No, no, no.

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What am I going to do?

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What am I going to do?

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Yes.

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We'll be right up.

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Your wife's awake.

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Dr. Slauson, let me go first.

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Honey, are you feeling better?

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Alex, I want to call my mother.

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Your mother in Louisiana?

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Alex, please don't start that again.

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Please let me call my mother.

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Why?

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Because she'll believe me.

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Will she?

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Yes.

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I think perhaps I'd better call her, don't you?

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It's going to be an awful shock.

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Tell her I want to see her.

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It's all right if I get dressed, isn't it?

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I don't want her to see me like this. I must look terrible.

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Yes.

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Get dressed.

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You know, Sal, we promised your cousin Diana we were going to wire her right after the ceremony.

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Only in all the confusion down at Tommy's...

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Would you mind leaving so I can get dressed?

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Did you call her mother?

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I mean Mrs. Wharton.

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No.

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No, I didn't.

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Mr. Conroy, I'm going to try something drastic.

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You gave me this a long time ago, remember?

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Of course I remember, Alex.

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Has there been much change in five years?

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Five years is a long time.

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Did you call my mother?

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Not yet.

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I've forgotten. The number is 5211.

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I remember.

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Will you call her now?

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Why don't you rest for a while? I'll take care of it.

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Excuse me.

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Hello?

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Karen.

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Karen, oh my God!

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Baby!

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Baby!

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Mom.

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Mother.

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Mother, I'm so glad to see you.

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Alex won't believe me. No one will believe me.

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They're treating me like I'm insane.

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Mother, please help me.

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Tell them who I am.

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Tell them who I am.

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Who are you?

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Who are you and why are you doing this to me?

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Why are you doing this to me?

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I'm sorry, Roy.

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Mom!

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Mom!

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Mom, please!

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Here, take these.

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When she put her arms around me, it was Karen.

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I know it was.

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And it was Karen's voice.

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But she is dead, doctor, isn't she?

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Yes, Karen is dead, Mrs. Wharton.

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Doctor, Mrs. Conroy's gone.

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There she is.

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Karen!

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With something heavy.

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With something heavy.

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Well, what now?

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We start with this.

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The police, Dan Stapler.

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Oh, I mean about her.

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I don't know about her.

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Hi, darling.

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Matt, is something wrong?

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Not now.

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Oh, we got lost for a while, but we're all right now.

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We're going to be married a long time, Mrs. Conroy,

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and it's going to take me a long time to...

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Oh, thanks.

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There's a nice technical word for what happened to Sally Conroy.

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It's called possession.

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That is, the dead temporarily taking over the body of the living.

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Terrifying?

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It terrified Dan Stapler into a quick and full confession.

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There are thousands of cases of possession in the records,

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many of which are not true.

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There are thousands of cases of possession in the records,

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many of them fully authenticated by respected scientists.

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We've seen one.

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To whom it happened, we know.

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Where it happened, we know.

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How or why it happened.

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We're married.

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