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Arthur stayed with the Levines at their home and they loaned him money to help him get established in his new locale. However, despite his efforts, Arthur would file for bankruptcy in 1991, the same year that his grandson, Sammy, was born. Upon his discharge from bankruptcy court, he would begin making plans for his move to Mexico, where he would eventually reside in a caretaker’s cottage on a Lake Chapala estate. The Lake Chapala area is a beautiful setting where many American retirees relocate so that they can live for significantly less money than it would take to retire in the United States.
    Meanwhile, Perry excelled at Vanderbilt, just as everyone had expected he would. He made Vanderbilt’s prestigious Law Review and, upon graduation, claimed that he had received a number of lucrative offers from some of the country’s most prestigious law firms, including two in New York. However, Perry decided to accept an offer as an associate from the prominent Nashville firm of Bass, Berry & Sims at a starting salary of $42,500 annually. In 1988, Perry became the first Jew ever hired as an attorney for Bass, Berry & Sims, the same year the firm hired its first African American attorney.
     
     
    One of Perry’s former professors at Vanderbilt characterized him as being personable and extremely bright.
    “Perry wanted very much to be a good lawyer,” said Vanderbilt law professor Donald Langevoort. “He was quite committed and hardworking in pursuit of just about everything he did.”
    Several of his coworkers thought that Perry was on the fast track to becoming a partner at the firm. Little did anyone know at that time that Perry would be asked to leave the firm three years later in disgrace after an internal investigation indicated that he had written a series of sexually explicit letters to a young female paralegal. The incident would mark the first of many problems that would affect his personal, as well as his professional, life.
    After being forced to leave Bass, Berry & Sims, Perry landed a position practicing corporate law at the firm where his father-in-law was a senior partner. Levine, Mattson, Orr & Geracioti was a much smaller firm than Bass, Berry & Sims, and Perry justified his move there by telling people that he desired more freedom to pursue his own legal interests. Others would say that he landed there because he had nowhere else to go at that juncture in his life. Nonetheless, Perry proved that he could be successful at his father-in-law’s firm. While employed there, he represented several local businesses, including Music City Mix Factory, a strip club, and several prominent and wealthy individuals.
    Perry and Janet’s second child, Tzipi, was born in 1994, and it was during that time frame that they were making plans to build the 5,300-square-foot Forest Hills French-style dream house, which Janet had designed. Even though they had known that it had been several years since Janet had been truly happy in her marriage, Janet’s parents once again put up the money to finance the deal for the house. At the time of Janet’s disappearance they continued to hold the note for the approximately $650,000 home. Janet had purportedly confided to her parents that she no longer trusted Perry, and alleged that he had “badly mismanaged their money.” In part, because her father was an attorney, the Levines thought it prudent that Janet keep all of her assets in her own name, and so advised her as such, just in case she decided to file for divorce at some point in the future.

Chapter 4
    Arthur March didn’t recall for certain the exact date that he arrived in Nashville, following Perry’s telephone call to him after Janet disappeared, but he believed he arrived on either August 21 or August 22. Since Perry had called him on the evening of August 18, a Sunday, the time frame of his recollection would fit. Even if he had left the very next day, it is an approximate four-day drive from the Lake Chapala area of