The Country Club Murders | Full Episode | Forensic Files

Castlewood Country Club is located in Pleasanton California it's an upper middle class Community it's a beautiful
place to raise a family for lack of a better word um very hoyy toyy most crime we have is a out of hand cocktail
party my mom and dad were wonderful adventurers they love to travel in March 2008 we were planning to go to Hawaii my
husband my two children and myself with my two parents I had been calling my mother
several times a day for four five six 7 Days continues to go to voicemail every [Music]
day and so I call my brother hey have you heard from Mom or Dad we're supposed to be going to Hawaii on Saturday and he
says to me no I haven't heard from Dad I finally called The Country Club to see if all was well at the home but it
was not an exclusive address did not stop murder there was blood spatter on the ceilings of the home on the walls of
the home on the doors of the home that Truly Spoke of the violent nature of this crime the shearers were inside the
house both of them were in their pajamas and they were brutally murdered Ernest I believe was the first victim he
suffered multiple blunt force trauma wounds to his head Charlene's injuries were much more dramatic she suffered 20
blunt force trauma injuries to her head cut wounds to her wrists her cored arteries and her jugular vein Mr Shear
fought so hard that his wedding ring flew off his hand I mean he fought until he could fight no
more I sat there with tears just coming down my face what do I do now called my brother
you need a plan to drive to Northern California I just found out that Mom and Dad are
dead and there was pause and he said oh my God what are we going to do this was not a burglary this was not
a robbery there was something else a foot here there's money there's women there's
greed there's lies there's deceptions there is poker when you can't imagine in your wildest dreams that someone could
do this it becomes clear that really anyone could do it I'm Peter vanand tonight on 48 Hours
the country club murders [Music] [Music] [Music] it was March 22nd 2008 when the sheerer
family gathered to say goodbye to their parents Charlene and Earnest it's horrible I hope that no one ever has to
endure it it's horrible Catherine watched as her brother Ernie helped carry their father's casket his wife
Robin offered support Ernie and my son and I were all standing holding the flower and I'm just sitting there crying
and crying my son is like sitting there right with me and he doesn't know why we're
there I'll know someday I'm going to make sure he knows who they were there was a point in which someone
told you how they died oh oh boy that was a hard moment I kept seeing it in my head while no
weapons were found at the scene police told Catherine her parents were bludgeon to death the killer then used another
weapon to cut their throats and wrists to make sure they were gone her mother suffered the worst damage her face was
unrecognizable it was it was horrific I remember closing my eyes and and crying and wishing that I could have taken it
from her her so she didn't have to suffer and who could do something like that I don't
know word of the murders rocked the quiet upscale Castlewood Country Club Community in Pleasanton California we
have our homicide detectives here and they're meticulously going through the home and the surrounding area and
neighborhood to find any clues in this uh case before they moved to Castlewood Charlene and Ernest sheerer raised their
family in San Ramone not far from San Francisco they had a passion for traveling we had family vacations we
would go to big sir we would go to Yus and one of my mom's favorite things I used to say why do you put in all of
this effort and tolerate all of the whining and the complaining from us kids you know why bother and she said because
you don't understand history until you can live in it till you can see it and touch it and experience
it Charlene was an accounting professor for 31 years she was also a devout Mormon who expected hard work and tried
to instill ethical values in her son and daughter she wanted us to do the best that we could 100% of the time and it
wasn't that she was harsh or critical just that she wanted us to achieve our biggest
potential Ernest sheer had made his fortune in real estate he also got involved in politics becoming a member
of the San Ramone School Board in the late ' 80s mayor Abram Wilson says Ernest could rub people the wrong way a
lot of people were very uncomfortable around erest he was the one that was always the one that voted against Ernest
confrontational style eventually got him ousted from the board an event that led
him to carry a grudge against his opponents for almost 20 years they recalled him and as it turned out he can
continued to fight them in fact Ernest was scheduled to have a meeting with Wilson to reveal
what he thought was corruption on the school board just days before that meeting he was found beaten to death the
first thing that came to my mind was that Ernie ticked off the wrong person Ernie was digging too
deep do you believe that Ernest and Charlene knew their attack that they open the door and let that person in
there's no doubt in my mind that they knew who the person was inside their house detective Scott Dudek spearheaded
the investigation for the Alama County Sheriff's Department when we arrived at the scene it was March 14 2008 based on
the decomposition of the bodies we felt that the murder had occurred several days before and it appeared to us that
the last newspaper paper that was picked up was March 7th the last time the shearers were seen was on the night of
March 7th they had gone out to dinner around 6:30 p.m. at the Castlewood Country Club restaurant before heading
home when their bodies were found by police a week later they were in their pajamas and their home was turned upside
down as I walked through the house it looked like a person had watched the TV show to say well this is what a burglary
supposed to look like it wasn't ransacked it was just okay I'm going to take a piece of linen out and throw it
on the thing so it looks like it's ransacked but the home showed no signs of forced entry and even though Ernest
was a bit of a gambler who just that day won a large sum of money this burglar wasn't interested in any of it there was
$100 bills sticking out of the jeans that you could see from 50 ft away looking into the bedroom what burglar is
going to leave ultimately it was over 9,000 sticking out of somebody's jeans and police discover another odd
clue one they think the killer wanted them to find oh wow wow that looks like it happened uh
yesterday this is the entryway floor to the Castlewood home we took the whole floor not only the tile but we took the
entire floor Detective Mike Norton believes these bloody Footprints were intentionally made the night of March
7th 2008 as part of a staged crime scene these Footprints were made maybe slow and methodically where the suspect
wanted us to know what kind of shoe made this and how big the shoe size was we were able to determine that there's a
Nike uh swoosh you can make out a swoosh right here correct there's no way that a
professional killer would have left that type of evidence at the scene unless it
was an attempt to sort of throw authorities off the track prosecutor Michael Neo was assigned to the case
where must you turn next you go inside you look at everybody and the family and in this case who are you looking at in
this case they looked at Katherine shear and Ernest Shear II police were quickly able to eliminate
Catherine as a suspect she'd been at her home in Utah the night of the murders I
was at the alamina County Sheriff's Office for questioning and I said so where are you going with this and he
said well there's only one person we can't rule out oh who you know he said well your your
brother my my brother [Music] really we were able to eliminate close circle of friends we were able to
eliminate political enemies it just constantly would come back to we couldn't eliminate their son
investigators began to focus in on Ernest and Charlene sherer's son Ernie who traveled the country as a
professional poker player why would my brother do it there's nothing to gain from
that killing my parents that's ridiculous but there was something to gain Ernie stood to inherit more than $2
million from his parents estate cops say he was desperate to see the will who asked to see your parents will
on day two of a murder if you see it right there for me you got it um just 4 days after his
parents' bodies are discovered Ernie agrees to be questioned by police once we can either rule you in or
rule you out as a suspect then we can move on to other people and that's Ernie tells police that on the
night of March 7th the date cops believe his parents were murdered he was fast asleep at his home in Brea California
hundreds of miles south of the crime scene drive time from my house to my parents house was roughly 6 and 1 half 7
hours so it's kind of unrealistic for me to have driven from my house all the way
up to their house killed them ransacked the house drive all the way back Ernie tells police he was home alone his wife
Robin was away visiting family but he assures cops they can easily verify his story what car were you driving in my
Camaro your Camaro my Camaro and you you'll be able to you'll be able to track me almost all the way to my door
on my cell phone I wanted to have him clear himself so they can move on and focus on what I
thought would be more important finding the real person who I thought was responsible Ernie sheer had been married
to Robin for 9 years and the two had a three-year-old son Ernest IV I'd like to think I've always been a good wife Robin
even supported her husband when the economics major she married decided to leave a promising career in business for
the unpredictable world of professional poker give me a sense of what life is like with a professional Gambler what
are the the highs what are the lows gosh all over all over the map you have good
days where there'll be wads of cash that come home and the next day you could lose 15 $220,000 and what's it like
living that roller coaster stressful very stressful at the height of his gambling
career Ernie made more than $100,000 in a single year and even played in the World Series of
Poker he was doing so well his father agreed to loan Ernie $616,000 to buy his dream home
what were the terms of this loan from Ernie's parents um the it was for a 5year loan and every month we owed them
a payment of $38.50 did this loan create tension between Ernie and your mom yes she didn't think that supporting him in
any way with his Boker was a good thing and would bring good things in any way Charlene was unrelenting in her
criticism of Ernie's chosen profession you can't be a professional Gambler that's like saying I'm a professional
nose picker at the time that she died what was their relationship like were they close no no when he became a
professional poker player it was like snip that relationship just severed and Charlene's intuition that
Ernie's gambling could lead to trouble came true we met at a craps table in the Rio in Las Vegas Adrien Solomon was
living in North Carolina in 20 6 when a business trip led her to a chance encounter with Ernie sheerer I like that
he was tall he had uh you beautiful blue eyes I do remember looking at his left hand to see if there's a ring and he
didn't have one so I said okay you this is a guy I can talk to for a little while Adrien was in the dark about
Ernie's wife and young son in California and Robin had no idea her husband was on
the prowl in Las Vegas how did the casinos treat Ernie was he comped things he was a High Roller Show tickets
restaurants everything he felt like a rockstar being able to treat me to to these things are you getting kind of
famous in the poker world or I'm very well known in the poker world did the two of you talk about a future together
we did I remember going into Tiffany's and looking at engagement rings he talked to my mother about marrying
me but Adrien soon saw a side to Ernie that made her think twice about getting serious
throughout Our Time dating his betting went from you know maybe $75 5075 for his initial bet up to like $500 for his
initial bet you he um increased his betting dramatically I routinely carry 5 to 10,000 in cash and then maybe another
40,000 in ships police wondered if Ernie's volatile risky lifestyle might have created a motive for murder
they confront him but let me ask you bluntly did you have any involvement in your parents death no okay did
you hire anybody or did you pay anybody no to kill your parents no investigators have their suspicions
but without solid evidence Ernie is free to go and thank you for doing your job guys you know but just one week later
they would unearth a chilling lead this building here here is called the lower Castlewood Country Club up there you can
see a surveillance camera that surveillance camera points the street out there after combing through hours of
video police spotted images of a red convertible with a black top entering Castlewood Country Club at 8:27 on the
night of the murders it left 4 hours later could this blurry image be Ernie's red command
Arrow armed with this new information cops want to confront Ernie but he has vanished he said
goodbye to me and I said when am I going to see you again and he said I don't know I'll be in
touch just 5 days after his interrogation Ernie sheer hit the open road for Parts
Unknown did he say where he was going no he just said he had to grieve Ernie took off in his dad's car
leaving behind the red Camaro cops believe is seen on this surveillance video when cops search Ernie's Camaro
for evidence they learn he is one step ahead of them he had a full detailing done of both the exterior and interior
of his Camaro Police discovered just days after the murder Ernie spent $140 having his car scrubbed at this car
wash even following it in on foot what a bizarre seat he's a bizarre individual and this was his way of sanitizing the
car with no trace of evidence left in the car cops pour over crime scene photos searching for Clues starting with
those bloody Footprints investigators conclude the size 12 Nike shoe prints left behind at
the crime scene were part of a grand deception there this isn't CSI Miami this is Ernie normally wears size 10 and
I believe that's why he left those Sho prints intact in an attempt to throw off investigators in the event that they did
come to him with questions about those bloody shoe prints he would simply be able to say I wear size 10 is this being
taped yeah it is and there was another intriguing blood trail that always troubled police there were footprints
that led from Charlene to Earnest and then continued on to a linen closet why would the attacker go
to a linen closet it was clearly somebody who had personal knowledge of the contents of that
closet someone like Ernie Ernie knew his dad stored his decorative sword collection in that closet after the
murders when family was allowed inside the Shearer home Ernie LED his wife Robin directly to the closet
he reaches in he pulls out this sword takes the sheath off the sword and he's looking at it and he said isn't
this a beautiful sword and he's putting it back in the closet under his breath he says I wonder where the second one
went remember both parents had been savagely slashed after Ernie fled Robin thought
about that missing sword and then just something clicked I thought oh my gosh there wasn't a doubt in my mind that he
had something to do with it as soon as I thought of that I first thing I did was
call the police Ernie is now the number one suspect but cops don't have the concrete forensic evidence they needed
to arrest him all they could do was watch Ernie and he made that easy he posted Craigslist ads all over the
country looking for women and I'm talking from Oregon all the way to Upstate New
York what was his typical ad like on Craig's List uh his typical ad 29-year-old man
looking for someone who can carry on a conversation is up for fun whenever the moment grabs you enjoys a good bottle of
wine and the nauseating comments went on from there how many women on the side do
you think he had over the years you know it would be difficult to say but I I would probably say it's
easily a 100 100 yeah Ernie met this woman who asked we not reveal her name in New
Orleans during the city's annual JazzFest celebration seemed like a nice guy he was a gentleman he was very
non-threatening Ernie now had a new identity he said his name was Bill Franks and he was writing a novel The
Plot was uh poker player in Vegas finds out that his parents are murdered and he
essentially ends up going on the run after telling her his work of fiction the two head to a casino near Bourbon
Street where Bill Franks suddenly became Ernie again we would walk up to the craft table and they would call him Mr
shear and I looked up and I'm like well what hello what Ernie explained that bill Frank's was just a pen name
and this isn't getting weird yet uh you know um no it wasn't I blonde Roots didn't ding at all so what did you start
calling him Ernie Ernie's Behavior then took an even stranger turn as the two walked into his
hotel room and then I turned back around and he had basically taken all of the furniture that was not bolted down and
he had it against the door with some bungy cords and it was like a ninja and I turned around and I looked at him and
I said what the is this he's basically barricaded the door to keep you in or keep someone out keep someone out she
then pointed at a second bungee cord and I said could you please explain and he said well it's for a
quick getaway out the window out the window and you're thinking what to yourself at this point I'm barricaded in
a room with a guy with a bungee cord whose name was Bill but now it's Ernie light don't didn't go off I felt
this guy had some kind of emotional BS going on with him that's how I explained it away but after Ernie left New Orleans
this woman decided to Google his name that's when I found out that he was indeed a professional Gambler and that
his parents murder had happened a month and a half before and the more I read the more I researched literally
physically the scker I got I met Ernie Sher on Craigslist Pamela Nichols who lived in
Las Vegas had already been on two dates with Ernie when he called the day his parents' bodies were found to cancel
their dinner plans for that night he had just gotten a call saying that that his
parents' house was broken into and burglarized and both of them were murdered if I had received that news I
wouldn't I wouldn't even be able to talk on the phone let alone make a phone call
to somebody I hardly knew phone records reveal Ernie told Pamela about the killings before he informed his own wife
this had to be a jaw-dropping moment when they gave you all this information about your husband's secret life oh
yeah he had had Secret credit cards secret PO Boxes secret everything secret lovers oh
[Music] yes it's sad not just for me but all the women who they have no idea they had no idea
that he was married that he had a son as they say there's nothing worse than a scorn woman you know and and once she
became that scorn person she was my third detective on this investigators laboring to build an
airtight case against Ernie sheerer weren't ready to arrest him evidence was still being gathered that's why I said
it's never too late to discover the truth but they would soon use Robin to turn the tables on her husband
I would just along to do what I needed to do to catch them and get them locked up either people loved your dad or they
hated [Music] Ernest Shear Jr six blows to the Head six stab wounds as your son is born you go oh God
I hope my son is just perfect Charlene 20 blows to the Head 12 stab wounds what this individual ended
up being was your worst nightmare as far as a son could be 3 months into Ernie Shearer's cross
country Joy Ride police get a tip he's gambling in Vegas a detective secretly places a GPS tracker on his car to keep
closer tabs on him his sister was a number one concern and she knew that if this person who is my brother could
willingly and knowingly walk into my parents' house and beat them and slice them until they were dead he'd have no
qualms walking into my house and doing that to my family Catherine sheer living in Utah
was now afraid of her brother it was a very tense time for me my family's hiding I'm
hiding she was warned every time Ernie was nearby it was horrible got to get out got to leave were you living in fear
of Ernie yeah I didn't know if he was going to come get me or my son or my family where I was
staying the blinds were shut doors were locked the alarm was on Ernie's movements were being tracked so too were
his finances giving cops a motive for murder he ran out of money just plain and simple you believe that he killed
his own parents just for some cash absolutely police learned Ernie had gambling debts approach
$90,000 and carried more than $40,000 in credit card debt did it get to a point where you couldn't pay the
bills yeah it did I kept saying I need you to give me some money cuz every month we owed his parents around that
same time in 2008 the real estate market was collapsing Ernie's Mom and Dad suddenly wanted their loan back now the
Noose was tiing around his neck he had no reliable stream of income and he side attacked investigators say Ernie wanted
a gun the day before his parents were murdered Ernie came here to the Master at Arms in parump Nevada owner Robert
brentlinger they were acting very strangely Ernie brought his friend piano player Billy Krauss to help one was very
stoic quiet didn't say much the other was bouncing off the walls all over the shop he made me very nervous
as a Nevada resident Billy could purchase the weapon and leave with it the same day did Krauss ever say why
Ernie wanted this gun he actually asked Ernie why he wanted the gun and Ernie said that he wanted it for self-
protection when brentlinger let Krauss know that buying a gun for Ernie an out ofate Resident was illegal Krauss told
Ernie the deal was off he wanted it right now and I wouldn't do it the failed gun purchase cop said
didn't deter Ernie the following day they believe he drove West out of Las Vegas with murder
in mind we have him at prin Nevada at a Chevron station based on gas receipts we have him at a McDonald's
where he charged $5 worth of hamburgers at McDonald's and mysteriously his cell phone records
stopped in the early afternoon of March 7th 2008 Ernie Sheriff's cell phone went
dead he was driving along this stretch of road Interstate 15 which runs from Vegas to Los Angeles 17 hours passed
before his cell phone came back to life his cell phone was off because he didn't want to be tracked to Pleasanton
when he was committing the murders of his parents Ernie's cell phone was off but the surveillance camera near his
parents' home was on police build a timeline we believe that he arrived in the evening of March 7th 2008 after 8:00
p.m. and that he entered the home sometime after that he's on the lower level of the home
and confronts his mother first and that she's able to run up the stairs and attempt to
flee and that he catches her at the very top of the stairs Neo believes Ernie then turns on his father inflicting six
fatal blows with an unknown weapon before grabbing a sword from the linen closet to complete his violence
vicious inhumane I can't come up with the words for this can you it's difficult to put
in the words at 12:42 a.m. police say that's Ernie's car leaving Castlewood country
club by the time Ernie's cell phone comes back on he is at his home in Brea 3 90 M away how long does it take to
drive from his parents house to his home in Brea members of the Alam County Sheriff's Department did exactly that
departing at the same time shown on the surveillance video and they arrived at the vicinity of his BR home at 2900
Primrose at exactly 6:36 a.m. the exact minute that his cell phone came back to life the exact minute correct is that
the closest thing for you in this case to a fingerprint it's close but investigators wanted to find a way
to get Ernie to admit it's his car on that surveillance tape Robin received a phone call from detectives asking for
her help he'd asked if I'd be willing to do a recorded phone conversation with Ernie and it was
arranged hello hi Hi how are you oh I'm so glad to be talking to you how are you you're not Robin had not
spoken to her husband for weeks since the day he disappeared she tries her best to act like nothing is wrong where
are you Northern California Northern cforia I'm not I'm not really trying to hide
myself they trying to hide I mean Robin was about to play one of the most important cards in this investigation
and Bluff her poker plane husband they're trying to build the circumstance her face against me because there is no
physical evidence that I committed this crime so I can the [ __ ] they have a police video with something that looks
like your car and you in it you can see the face of the driver yes were you there it was a lie you can't see a
driver on this surveillance tape but Ernie didn't know that were you there cuz I thought you were driving back home
and there's this video that they have and it clearly looks like it's your car hello what else you tell me about the
video I'm here I'm just thinking that long pause convinced cops it was Ernie's car and him in it what did that pause
tell you oh that was just the moment where I like he was there and on February 23rd 2009 nearly 1
year after the bodies were found Ernie sheerer is arrested in Las Vegas for the murder of his parents I want to advise
you you have the right to remain silent do you understand that yes dispite his arrest Ernie tells a friend in a
jailhouse conversation he'll soon be out I will never have to worry about this again for the rest of my life I can just
go on and live my life and never give it another thought [Music] awaiting his trial a confident Ernie
sheerer mocked the case against him that was one of his statements to me I Want to Be Free by Christmas hey come on
prosecutor Mike Neo admits his evidence is circumstantial I want you to tell me about the witness who saw Ernie enter
his parents home that night there is no witness that saw Ernie there is no witness are there any
fingerprints there were no fingerprints so no witness no fingerprints and you can't verify the car yes that's a strong
case it is when you consider everything together everything points to Ernie being responsible the defense counters
with solid forensic evidence saying foreign DNA found mixed in with the victim's blood does not match Ernie
that's your killer isn't it that's what the defense would have you believe just because someone's DNA is present doesn't
mean that they're the responsible party could have been one of the first responders at the scene it could have
been anyone that had been in the shear home prior to March 7th 2008 looking for anything to bolster his case Neo took a
second look at those crime scene photos something caught his eye I'm getting chills just telling you the story now he
made a startling Discovery this bloody piece of paper which turned out to be a warranty card from a Nike youth baseball
bat I called my investigator and I said you got to get up here we found the murder
weapon these two people 57 and 60 years old have no reason to have a youth baseball bat in their home never mind a
warranty cards a fixed to the barrel of the baseball bat with dad's blood on it you don't have a physical murder
weapon but you essentially have a murder weapon don't you with this little piece of paper yes
more than 2 years after the murders investigators finally knew the instrument used to kill Ernest and
Charlene now they needed to find a way to put the bat in Ernie's hands though I focused on Prim because he had used the
McDonald's and the Chevron station as the starting point for his Alibi so I said let's see what else is in Prim and
just like that The Dominoes started to fall into place standing just footsteps away from the McDonald's a Nike outlet
store that led us to a particular cash transaction in which an individual purchased three items the baseball bat a
pair of Nike Tomahawk impact shoes size 12 and a pair of youth soccer goalie gloves those three items might as well
be a 101 kit for how to commit murder they were purchased on March 7th 2008 and what are the chances on the day of
the homicide that a person buys a bat and buys the exact same size shoe that we find in the crime scene
the sage words of my grandmother one to many coincidences is not a coincidence on January 4th 2011 with
cameras banned from the courtroom the murder trial of Ernie sheerer would begin the prosecution would take the
jury through the surveillance video were are you there cuz I thought you were driving back home Robin's phone call
Ernie's lies I was not in Northern California and of course that Bloody warranty card Ernie Sher decides to take
the stand why do you think he's doing that I think it's consistent with his narcissistic personality I think he is
persuaded that he can convince at least one member of that jury to either find Reasonable Doubt or to find that he's
completely innocent and there was one female juror that gave prosecutor Neo cause for concern Ernie appeared to be
flirting with her exchanges of smiles glances and she is appeared to flirt back and then once the juror left the
courtroom he would look at me and laugh and make comments about essentially how he had this one juror uh in his
Corner as they await the verdict Robin and her son serve as a reminder of just what is at stake would he be willing to
hurt me or hurt Ernest is really scary but would this professional Gambler win his final
hand after an exhaustive 3-month trial Ernie sheerer is found guilty of murdering his
parents it is an overwhelming feeling to know that all of that hard work all that
sacrifice comes to that moment and knowing that the right thing happened there is no other feeling like it what
was it like for you to hear guilty emotional I was shaking and I wanted to make sure that I
looked at him and saw his reaction what'd you see he put his head down and then when he lifted it back up
at one point and I saw his eyes he had that look like I got caught robin lives each day
knowing she will eventually have to explain to her young son just how his father murdered his grandparents does he
have a living memory of his father he doesn't really know him he just remembers that we used to live with
somebody who had this red convertible it's horrible to look at your brother and say why would you do
that where is there any logic any love any anything and to feel like not only have
you lost your parents but you've just lost effectively your entire family [Music]
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Brief Summary

The episode details the brutal murders of Ernest and Charlene Shearer and the investigation that led to their son Ernie's conviction.

Key points

The Shearer Family Murders. The brutal murders of Charlene and Ernest Shearer shocked their community.
Catherine's Heartbreaking Discovery. Catherine learns of her parents' murder, leading to a devastating family crisis.
Ernie's Inheritance Motive. Ernie stood to inherit over $2 million from his parents' estate, raising suspicions.
Ernie's Bizarre Behavior. Ernie's strange actions after the murders raise red flags for investigators.
The Shocking Phone Call. Ernie informs Pamela about his parents' murder before telling his wife.
Ernie's Secret Life Revealed. Ernie's hidden life comes to light, shocking those closest to him.

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What do I do now?

The moment of discovering her parents' murder.

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Tension

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