Phil Conahan

He was an incredible mechanic at getting into things.

The final, the thing that broke my back was the fact that I had rebuilt the back door to where he couldn't get in that way anymore.

And so he tied his vehicle to my front door and pulled the front of the building down to get in.

And then he took everything he wanted that trip, I guess.

I thought, I can't get any help.

Figure it out, Colin.

I remember

getting that shotgun and going back to the back room and sitting on that stool and putting it all together and testing it, make sure that it was gonna work.

And I ran a trip wire about foot off the floor and then loading it and getting it ready to do its job.

I didn't really plan on it.

I just did it.

I guess it was the only thing that I thought would catch him.

Never did.

He and I were the only ones that ever went back in that room.

There wasn't any reason for anybody else to go in there.

They couldn't get in there.

It was Easter.

Easter morning.

And I had worked to put the front of the building back together.

And I got in my little MG and headed for Kansas City and was gonna spend Easter with some friends over there.