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the impact Dana's actions have had on my
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life.
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I'll neve r forget the day that Mom
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called me to inform me that Mike and
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were dead.
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in California and I just came home from
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church.
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small kiddy pool for my boys Timothy and
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Joshua, ages five and three.
K~ren
My wife Robin and I were living
I was in the backyard setting up a
Robin came to
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the back door with a phone in her hand and
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I'll never forget the look on her face.
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asked what was wrong and she said it's mom
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and I asked 1s mom okay.
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She told me it's
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not mom, it was Mike, he's dead and so 1s
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Karen.
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shaking hands and spoke to mom.
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as she told me what was known.
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Karen had been brutally shot to death 1n
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Karen's home.
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anguish.
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I took the phone from Robin's I listened Mike and
I fell to my knees in
First thought that came to my mind was
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Dana did this.
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that he felt Dana was going to kill him.
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It's taken years for me to cope with the
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tragedy of the murders, on top of all this ,
Reported by :
Mike told me a year before
April C. Shepard, RPR, CCR, CSR