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- case #9 - the forbes report
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- "the huxley courier," a weekly and
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- the town's only newspaper, had just been
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- delivered on the morning of tuesday,
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- august 13th. sgt. haskill was reading
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- the lead story on clifford weathers,
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- recalling the events of six years ago,
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- two years before sgt. haskill had joined
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- the force.
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- cliff weathers had just moved into
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- huxley with his wife, clarissa, and
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- their six month old daughter, nina.
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- cliff had been hired by the union
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- savings and loan to program their new
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- computers. soon after moving in,
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- weathers took out a $100,000 term life
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- insurance policy on clarissa and insured
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- the house for its full market value. a
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- week after the policies were issued,
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- the weathers' home was gutted in a
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- fire. cliff escaped with tiny nina in
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- his arms, but clarissa died in the fire.
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- the fire department proved the fire
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- had been purposely set. because cliff
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- weathers had just taken out the two
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- large insurance policies and perhaps
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- because he was both black and new in
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- town, he was convicted of premeditated
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- murder and sentenced to life
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- imprisonment.
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- two months ago, tom welker, a
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- drifter, turned himself in to the f.b.i.
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- he confessed to setting 39 fires across
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- the country over the past seven years,
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- including the weathers' fire. cliff
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- weathers had just been released from
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- jail after serving six years for a
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- murder that he didn't commit.
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- sgt. haskill's reading was interrupt-
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- ed at 8:15 a.m. by a phone call from
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- leon scruggs, a coach at huxley college.
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- coach scruggs was calling to report a
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- dead body on the huxley college athletic
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- field (v) quarter-mile dirt track. the
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- coach said it looked like murder.
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- to win, you must:
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- 1. name the murderer.
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- 2. explain the murderer's motive.
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- all players start at the huxley college
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- athletic field (v) at 8:45 a.m.
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