Susan Spencer

Harwood put his hand on it and pulled the newspaper towards him.

It wasn't until they were back in the car that Belinda realized the newspaper had an envelope in it.

That's when he opened the newspaper and there was an envelope in there containing money.

Lots of money?

Yeah.

In fact, half of what Harwood said was the $25,000 payoff for the murder of Leta Sullivan.

Now, finally, Belinda believed him and she split, moving to Texas to start over.

Eventually, she got married.

But Harwood never let her forget what she knew or what would happen if she told.

Yeah, he threatened me pretty much the whole time.

He never stopped?

No.

For 11 years, it worked.

Belinda kept her mouth shut.

But by January of 1998, she had had it with the threats, and she finally challenged him.

And I even bluntly said it on the phone.

I said, did you kill that woman or what?

And he says, I don't want to discuss that right now.

And that's when Belinda decided to go to the cops.

Her boss, the lawyer, knew that they would have two big questions.