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neighbors by taking those people’s charge cards and personal identification numbers (PINs) to the store for them and buying what they needed, saving their friends or neighbors a trip to the store. That did not constitute identity theft, the writer claimed, only lending a helping hand.
    There is just so much in this case that can be explained by our small-town culture, the post concluded. We live in a town that has a population of around 800. (It was also a twenty-mile trip to the nearest Walmart.)
    A skeptic on the other side of the debate answered, You better be careful; you appear to be incriminating yourself, and the poor fools for allowing you to do it.
    The Karri supporter countered with more opinions on small-town life, saying that everyone in towns like Ider knew everyone else, and knew everything wrong that anyone had ever done. The poster also added that he or she could tell stories about the town’s finest citizens that “would make your hair crawl!” The writer went on to say that Karri Willoughby was one of the few people in the town about whom no one ever said anything bad.
    We all know you can’t keep secrets in a small town. All you have to do is tell one person and the cat is out of the bag. I just think they got this all wrong! the defender wrote.
    The skeptic answered, So you were aware that [the husband of] one of Karri’s main supporters was having an affair. Maybe she should spend more time focusing on HER family and not Karri’s. Just saying.

CHAPTER 14
    W hile the controversy raged over Karri Willoughby’s indictment and arrest, her new best friend, the accused killer Nathan Wilder, was also being held in the DeKalb County Jail. Wilder, thirty, of Fort Payne, had been arrested for killing his wife, Elizabeth—the murder had occurred a short time before noon on December 10, 2009. Nathan had strangled his estranged wife with a belt, then called Fort Payne 911 and told the dispatcher that he and his wife had gotten into an argument that had escalated into a fight. He said that he had hurt her very badly and thought she was possibly dead.
    A Fort Payne Police Department squad car, with two officers, happened to be in the immediate area and responded to the call within one minute. When they arrived at the scene, Nathan Wilder walked out onto the porch and surrendered to Detective Lieutenant Andy Hairston and Chief of Detectives Mike Grant.
    â€œI think I have killed my wife,” he told them.
    When the detectives entered the house, where Nathan Wilder was living alone, they found Elizabeth Wilder’s body lying on the bedroom floor. They also noted lots of obvious signs of a struggle having taken place. When personnel from the Fort Payne Fire Department and DeKalb Ambulance Service arrived and examined the body, they called for DeKalb County’s assistant coroner. Charles Williams arrived and pronounced Elizabeth Wilder dead at the scene. Arrangements were made for her body to be taken to the state forensic laboratory for an autopsy.
    During the frenzied activity that took place while the authorities rushed to the scene of the crime following Nathan Wilder’s 911 call, a miscommunication between the Fort Payne Police Department and the Department of Human Resources resulted in a lockdown of Wills Valley Elementary School. One of the Wilder family members was believed to be at the school, and the ensuing lockdown was immediately ordered. The confusion was quickly cleared up and the lockdown lasted only a few minutes, according to officials.
    Wilder and his wife were separated but still married, and he had no previous charges of domestic violence on his record. Within days of the murder, however, neighbors began reporting to the authorities, as well as to the media, that the couple had often been heard arguing. The investigators were told by those neighbors that there had definitely been some obvious issues of domestic violence between the Wilders.
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