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you have any important papers in there?”
    “No. The only important papers were in his desk.”
    “Was his wallet open or closed?”
    “It was like a cloth wallet. Not one you carry around in your pocket. More like a travel wallet. It was lying out flat.”
    “What did he carry in his wallet?”
    Miriam thought for a moment and answered, “Credit cards. Fishing license. A card to get into the national parks. And cash.”
    Jarrell wanted to know how much cash, and Miriam said, “A few hundred dollars. He gave me two hundred dollars today. And he gave me a credit card to use if I needed that. But I didn’t need it today.”
    “What credit cards did he carry?”
    Miriam replied that Alan had two credit cards, both of them from Bank of America. He had given her the one with the lower credit amount to use.
    Jarrell asked if Alan was the primary holder on both cards, and Miriam said yes. Then she added, “We’ve been married for two years. And we had a prenup. Everything was in his name.”
    Jarrell said, “Okay, this prenup . . . I don’t know that much about them. Explain to me about it.”
    “In a nutshell, it said that I didn’t have rights to the things he owned before we got married. Those assets went to his kids. I can get it (the prenuptial agreement) if you want. It was my suggestion.”
    “Your suggestion?”
    “Yeah, because his daughters were learning to like me. And I wanted to make sure they knew I loved him and wasn’t after his things. They’d just lost their mother a couple of years before.”
    Jarrell replied, “It had to be very difficult, not only for you, but them also.”
    Miriam responded, “I think it was good to do. They seemed to have some issues about their mother. They thought I was going to come in and take the china.”

C HAPTER 5
    “W E H AD A W ONDERFUL L IFE T OGETHER .”
    Getting Miriam back to what she saw, Jarrell said, “You walk in here, Miriam, and see Alan. Did you see anything missing? Anything out of the ordinary?”
    “No. Just drawers that had been opened and a garbage can turned over. My desk is kind of a mess, so I couldn’t tell on that.”
    “Anything missing off of his desk?”
    “I didn’t look.”
    Jarrell asked if the doors to their house in Whitewater were generally locked. Jarrell was surprised when Miriam answered that they never locked them. The same went for the downstairs door where Josh went into the house.
    Asked why they didn’t lock the doors, Miriam said, “Alan didn’t think it was necessary.”
    Incredulous, Jarrell said, “He didn’t think it was necessary!” In light of what had happened, maybe it was necessary.
    But Miriam added, “He didn’t even know we had keys to the house until a couple of months ago. We never had any trouble out there.”
    Moving to a different topic, Jarrell said, “Tell me about Alan. Did he have any enemies? Did he have any problems with the contracting that was going on?”
    Miriam shook her head no.
    So Jarrell asked, “Would he share that with you if he did?”
    Miriam responded, “I think so. He shared a lot with me. I didn’t really understand the business end of a lot of things. He was trying to help me understand it. Not that I knew everything he was up to.”
    Jarrell turned to Detective Norris, who was off camera. He said to Miriam, “Speak about his land projects and distributing water. Any neighbors have any problems with him developing that land? Any neighbors have problems with him and the water?”
    Miriam said that she didn’t think so. “He hadn’t gone through the process far enough to even tell them about it. But I hadn’t actually kept up with it all.”
    “How did he get along with the neighbors?”
    Miriam replied that everything with them was fine. The only neighbors they really knew were a young couple that had a play set in the front yard. Otherwise, they didn’t socialize in the neighborhood. Then Miriam said that Alan was kind of a hermit and he didn’t even know