Tim Uehlinger

She died the very day the insurance inspector was going to talk to her.

Talk to her again.

There are some people who believe that coincidences happen and other people who believe coincidence is unlikely to ever happen.

I mean, Paul was really a charmer.

But when it came to choosing girlfriends, and I mean no disrespect to any of the girlfriends he may have had over the years, he would choose people who would be very pleased to be with such a handsome girl guy.

He would pull them in and they would do anything for him.

And by the way, you know, he wasn't convicted of any serious crime.

He got misdemeanors and so no jail time.

Yes, it did.

And he would say that even years and years later, when Paul was living in a different part of the state altogether, hundreds of miles away, he couldn't go to the police, in his opinion or his view at the time, without Paul finding out immediately.

And somebody in Paul's circle of friends and acquaintances in that little town would make life very difficult indeed for Steve.

He lived in fear that whole time, he claimed.

You know, given the sort of personality that he presented to us and the role that he played in that relationship, I can kind of see it.

What do you think about him now?

You don't get that little itch in your back anymore that somebody might do something to you someday?

Interesting, isn't it?

Once you decide not to be afraid of somebody, does it make you look back and say, Jesus, why didn't I have this attitude 20 years earlier, 24 years earlier?

You just look at the brute in the face and say, F you.

I'm going to go tell the cops.

And a skilled manipulator who can make a person feel afraid.