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for sure if he wanted to develop the property in front of their house and have anyone live that close to them.
    Detective Jarrell spoke up and said, “Why does that not surprise me? The way you talk about things in your relationship.”
    This elicited a small smile from Miriam, who agreed with her.
    Jarrell asked, “Any firearms in the house?”
    Miriam thought for a while and said, “I know he’s got a rifle. I think it’s a twenty-two. He used it when we had prairie dog problems. He’s got a shotgun. And a box with a handgun in it.”
    “Do you know the caliber of the handgun?”
    “No.”
    “Is it like a small derringer? Or is it a larger gun?”
    Miriam said that it was small and could fit in the palm of a person’s hand. “He put it on the back shelf in a closet. And he has bullets there. He had his rifle out the other day, and he thought I should learn how to use the pistol. He showed me how it fired, and how to pull the handle back on it, which I didn’t do. I told him I don’t do guns. So he put it back where I wouldn’t see it.”
    Detective Jarrell wanted to know what Miriam meant by “handle.” They finally agreed that she meant a slide on the small handgun, which opened the breach where a bullet could be placed into the firing chamber.
    Detective Norris spoke up again. “The prenup—did he have a lot of assets, where this is an issue with his family?”
    Miriam appeared as though confused by this statement. She lifted back her head in thought. Finally she said, “You know, I don’t know if it’s been an issue with them or not.”
    Norris asked, “Is he a wealthy person?”
    Miriam replied, “It’s all in dirt.” (By this she meant that it was all tied up in real estate and planned projects.) “He had a title company in Delta and he sold that, like, two months ago. And he had two hundred forty acres in Delta County, but it’s just dirt. He’d been looking into whether he could run electricity and water to it before he could sell it. That was kind of offset by money he owed to investors and the bank.”
    Bev Jarrell responded, “Did that ever concern him, financially?”
    Miriam answered, “He never let on if he had any financial problems. There was a time when he told me to tighten my belt, but I didn’t handle the money, anyway. He did.”
    “Any depression going on with him about his financial dealings? It sounds like he had a lot of money tied up in investments?”
    Miriam said, “If he did have any [depression], he didn’t tell me about it. Sometimes he’d tell me stuff. Sometimes he doesn’t.” Then she corrected herself. “ Didn’t. I kind of liked it that I didn’t have to worry about the bills, that he handled all the finances. We had a wonderful life together and did so much together.”
    Moving on, Detective Jarrell asked, “Did anyone else know where he kept his firearms?”
    Miriam said, “No, not that I know of.”
    Jarrell then wanted to know if Miriam stayed home most of the time. She said that she and Alan usually traveled around together, unless he was doing business. But if it was just for running errands around the area, they usually did that together.
    “How about the landscaper? Would that person come to the house?”
    “Yep.” And then she gave the company name. Miriam said that there had been a beef between Alan and that company. Miriam added, “Alan was kind of upset with them because our sprinkler system was not working. They were supposed to have installed it two years ago, but it broke. And they wouldn’t come out to fix it. Alan was on him and on him and on him. Finally he did fix it, but it was too late for the plants. We used to have nice plants in front, but they died because of the lack of water.”
    Jarrell wondered if any words had been exchanged between Alan and the landscaper. Miriam replied, “I don’t know, because Alan has always handled that.”
    Asked if there was anyone else that Alan had problems with, she said that Alan