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own?”
    Miriam replied, “He never really expressed it. But he did tell me, ‘If Alan Jr. ever shows up, call the cops.’ That’s when I realized, this was an area where I shouldn’t step.”
    Of course all the statements about Alan Jr. were from Miriam’s perspective of the situation.
    While Miriam had been talking about Alan Jr., both detectives had been busy writing down notes. In light of Alan being murdered only hours before, this information was being taken very seriously.

C HAPTER 6
    “L IFE S TRESSORS ”
    Moving to a different subject, Detective Norris said, “You brought up about Alan’s daughter or granddaughter taking riding lessons.”
    Miriam said that Portia’s daughter took riding lessons at the ranch in Whitewater. Then Miriam said that this granddaughter lived in Delta, with Portia. Concerning how often Miriam saw Portia, she said about once a week, and she talked to her on the phone almost daily.
    Detective Jarrell excused herself at this point and exited the room. Norris continued wanting to know about Alan keeping his work away from the home, and wondered if he had an office somewhere. Miriam said that he had an office in Delta, or at least he did until about six weeks before when he sold his interest in a title company there. From that point on, he did most of his work at home. In fact, he did it near the spot where he had been murdered. Miriam didn’t know of anything that Alan was working on, for which someone might want to kill him.
    As far as the liquor cabinet went, Miriam said that she might have a glass of wine once in a while, and Alan only had a few drinks at the end of the day. He preferred Crown on the rocks or Jack Daniel’s.
    Norris asked, “Did he get intoxicated every night?” Miriam said no, but that he would once in a while. And when he did, as she put it, “he was a happy drunk.”
    Norris wondered if Alan had any “life stressors. Any financial problems with work?” Miriam said those weren’t really stressors. “He always had to have a project going. I know that he had a note due at the bank. I don’t know any more about it than that.”
    In relation to having dogs at the house, they had two but neither of them was a watchdog. They were friendly dogs that weren’t aggressive at all, Miriam said. Then she added about the dogs that day, “They were outside. Alan doesn’t like to leave them in the house when I’m gone.”
    Getting back to the wallet, Miriam recalled that Alan usually kept it on his desk. And when he traveled, he just laid it out on the car seat or truck seat until he had to exit the vehicle. Then he stuffed the wallet in a pants pocket, since it was cloth.
    Norris asked, “Does he normally keep a cell phone on him?”
    Miriam responded, “Mm-hmm” (meaning yes). Then she laughed, and said, “It’s pink.”
    Norris was surprised, and said, “It’s pink?”
    She laughed again and explained, “He liked the color pink.”
    Norris wanted to know if she or Alan had seen anyone strange around the property in the last week. Miriam answered, “In front of our property, there is an open space, where people walk. Sometimes we see people out there. But no one was out of place or any problems.”
    Getting back to Alan Jr., Norris questioned, “You said that Alan supported the mom on the adoption of Alan Jr.’s daughter. In what way did he support it?”
    Miriam answered, “I think he went to Denver or wrote a letter to the judge. He told the judge that his son, Alan Jr., had no business being a father.”
    “Do you know if any threats or problems came from that?”
    Miriam heaved a big sigh. Then she said, “I don’t know. Alan didn’t really say. I just know that he said that his son still blamed him for it.”
    “How long ago was that?”
    “About two years ago.”
    “Have things calmed down since then?”
    Miriam replied, “I’ve never actually seen them at odds. Well, really, Alan didn’t give him much of a chance to argue over