Piper’s Former Boyfriend

Piper Roundtree and I at one time were girlfriend, boyfriend.

We exchanged phone numbers and started talking on the telephone, went out to supper a time or two, and it just went from there. She was very sweet, great off-the-wall sense of humor, which I appreciated. Cute, obviously. Pretty much a normal person.

I was in Houston quite often on business, so it was not difficult. I was there probably two days minimum a week. Their long-distance relationship lasted for about a year. Then that evolved into a continuing close relationship, close friendship.

I came home from an LSU football game about 10, 30-ish, 11-ish, and my cell phone rang. And it was Piper, and she said she was asking me to come to Houston. And she said it's important Fred's dead. And I said, what happened? She says, well, I'm not certain Fred's dead. And she was not screaming, but she was not far from hysteria, I would think.

She was very concerned with the kids. But in my whole relationship with Piper, she was very concerned. But more so, obviously, this was to the extreme.

I think he asked me how well did I know Fred, and I didn't know Fred at all. I never had any conversation with him in my life.

I don't think anyone on the face of the earth was more shocked than myself to find out my card was in Richmond, Virginia. I did not have a clue.

They said, well, Mr. Walters, the account's overdrawn. And I said, why? And they said, well, you've got pending ATM charges in Richmond, Virginia. And I said, really? And they said, uh-huh. I said, okay, get back to you. That's when I started getting a little concerned that Jerry Walters' card was floating around a murder scene in Richmond, Virginia.

I asked her, what's the deal on the card? How come my card was in Richmond and not with you? And that's when she said, well, the last time I saw the card was when I went to the tennis club and apparently someone stole it there. And I said, well, why didn't you tell me? And she says, well, I just hadn't missed it. She said, if you don't go to use it, you don't know it's gone.

So that kind of made sense.

He asked me, did I think she did it? And I said, I just can't fathom that she did.