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tonight's film a dramatization of events

in the mysterious life of marie hilly is

based on court and police records and

personal interviews

i'm not quite sure frank but we're gonna

make you feel better aren't we marie we

sure are

i think in addition to the ko pectate we

ought to make sure that frank continues

to eat and drink a lot of fluids i don't

want him getting dehydrated well carol

and i'll make sure he does as instructed

i'm going home frank marie

you keep up the tlc all right thanks

come on honey

bye now

hi

hi how's your dad doing he's about the

same i guess

he looks real bad i know

haha vlinda how y'all doing today fine

miss hilly thank you

your mom's so neat you're lucky she's

okay most of the time

carol you could have looked a little

nicer would want a dress or something

nice like belinda mom she's her father's

little boy

doesn't mean you have to look like once

there's your grandma girl help her into

the car

bye

sorry

thanks janelle

mama fixed your favorite daddy

god eat something dry deer

darling i just i i don't think i can

i know it's good but please fry please

for me

well maybe leap for you

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come on daddy

how about a bite for your old buddy here

huh

that's it

okay

where's the car

who took some

rain

is it raining

frank where

did i need the

home ambulance

there's a rock that's right

that's nice

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so

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do

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so

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so

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carol

are you ready to go

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i feel so alone with daddy gone

well

you were so special to him

sometimes i ended you too

you'd like to peas in a pod

well

your daddy's in heaven now

he's looking down at his baby girl

and he wants you to be strong

we'll come through this together

our little family

mom will take care of

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you used to do everything together

god i miss him oh no

it'll be all right

i still can't believe it it was just so

sad

he seemed fine 10 days ago didn't he

mama

it just got worse real fast first he had

these real bad stomach aches and then

his liver stopped working where's your

mama

she's just lost

why do you always do this

so you can see where i came from and

appreciate where we're going now y'all

gonna drive up the hill to where you

think you belong

growing up here didn't stop me from

being voted the prettiest girl in

anderson

all calhoun county for that matter

i think you should have a boyfriend by

now i had one he wasn't good enough for

you oh hilly

you can do better than ronnie harmon we

can do better than this

when i was your age you had dozens of

boyfriends

matter of fact i do

i had my pick and chews

more than a few from up on the hill too

why do you marry daddy then don't be

fresh with me

your father was a wonderful man

those times

y'all didn't just cross you know

there's always been them in us

and i could speak french too

guess we better get going

i think we should find a place to live

up there here

sure mom

well at least close to here

maybe the bottom slowly work our way up

i'd love to live here

i should live here

that's mr coswell's house there

he said i was the best executive

secretary he ever had and why did you

quit

a better offer i'd worked mr gaines

i was in great demand

all these men wanted me to work for them

most important men in town

all of them

i've heard all the good things about you

well that's awfully nice of you to say

i've always tried to do my very best

which is very good indeed from all

accounts

uh would you have time

to help i mean

we're undergoing some extensive

restructuring of the marketing division

and uh

i understand your organizational skills

are impeccable

and uh well perhaps you could uh

sleep only for a few days or so

well mr carkin i'm truly flat at your

consideration really i'd be quite

pleased to help in any way i could well

welcome aboard

wow

uh you uh

do

you you like a little uh

little high ball

i always like a little bit around this

shade of the day

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so

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so

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what do you want

it's it's grandma

she's been terrible all night i feel so

helpless i can't do anything for her

i want her to die

i'll take care of things

oh hell

you go on now

you're going to fit

come on

get it

hello

who is it

hello

those phone calls again they call

breathe in the phone and hang up how

long's it been happening

ever since daddy died

well this harassment sure is strange no

doubt about that miss really but i don't

see any signs of forced entry or

anything

well what about the notes and the phone

calls

well unless we got some hard proof

there's nothing i can do

if you get another note hold on to it

and i'll come get it

in the meantime we'll just have to keep

an eye out hopefully the tap on your

phone will help us out

well

we understand completely and are ever so

thankful for your concern lieutenant

yes ma'am

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yeah

don't clean your room what don't go in

your room carol

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can't wait

please carol don't go in your room

no

mama why are they doing this

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who marie who is they

i

okay okay

i have to get grandma

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gary yes les

i'll talk to you man

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sure is strange

who would want to hurt a pretty lady

like her

i don't know

where she get all the money

we don't have any money

well i checked the clothes in her closet

looks like the movie stars

well mama likes to look nice

well you call us anything else happens

okay sure

so

she says well i declare was simply

mortified like some little west

nashville bell a crack of trash is

practically known the entire first

baptist men's revival choir in the

biblical sense of course

what does she do during the day

who

you know what oh she tends her garden

with little gloves with tiny tulips all

over them

and uh she paints

hates what

birds badly

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out of like that

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yes

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dude

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come on

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and where did all the money go marie

frank's life insurance paid you thirty

thousand dollars

now as any fine southern woman i know

you know your bible

robbing peter to pay paul

i'm afraid we're going to have to put

you on a little monetary diet

now

i have devised a little plan

we're going to float you a small loan

secured on your own good name to cover

these bad checks now just until the fire

insurance proceeds can be

disbursed lord i couldn't live without

you you know that you're a lifesaver i

don't know how i can ever thank you

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so

it's funny without grandma here

well she'll be better than frida

it's funny without furniture too

it's on the way

i ordered a wonderful living and dining

room set from wilmington

i think that's nice don't you

uh-huh

i've never seen snow except for in your

paintings

now i've never seen the real thing

myself either

someday we'll go to the mountains

wear thick furs

why we'll learn to ski and yodel yo lahi

who

how

sometimes i think i'll just get nowhere

like we were born in this little town

with a fence around at five miles high

you gotta stay in it forever

like me

is that what you think my life's been

about

no i could have done quite well thank

you

shouldn't it explode

not if we do it right not like it hadn't

been done by anyone before

we just report it

stolen

come on come on

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what do you think of that

that was pretty cool mama

mama

yes

i gotta ask for the prom

the senior prom

what

lucy kale

we showed off gonna get you all dolled

up cuter than a little itty bitty baby

blue eyed angel i do declare we showing

up well

this is where my daddy taught me to

drive

can we really afford this car yeah

i've already explained this to you

that's why we burned the old one

whatever you say this is slick

just up here

my little father uplift

now stop stop

now

the hardest part of your test is

parallel parallel pocket and we'll

practice here

between these monuments to our founding

fathers

pillars of our fine little town

won't we get in trouble doing this

carol just

just practice parallel all right

well i don't know just doesn't seem

right

personally i think the color is lovely

honor

i wonder if you'll ever fill out carol

curves can be such an advantage

i do kind of like this one mama

what about that blue one that girl has

on

i'll check and see if we have it in her

size

of course i think she looks lovely in

this one

with alterations of course i i do kind

of like this one don't be ridiculous

ta-da

here we go perfect mama i just put it on

camera

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well

i think this will have to do

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a new car marie

not a very prudent purchase under the

circumstances

i do believe the devil made me do it

more

you've closed the account

but lord

of course i'll try to make the payments

yes i can

please

the uh other talent is overdrawn too

i don't know how that could possibly

have happened

give me a month war

please

please i promise

well that check was just a little dress

one month

please

thanks ward

bye

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now carol

i want you to eat something oh mama

every bit of it young lady especially if

you drink

mom i got a drink don't tell me what

kids do at proms

i went to five

youngest girl in aniston

three times princess and then queen they

mix it in soda and you just hope they

throw off on themselves instead of your

pretty little pumps

good evening silly hi billy come on in

stop right there

okay already my my don't you look

handsome

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are you all right here what's wrong

carol need some water are you drunk

come here

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good morning mrs hilly

i'm dr seldis i've been supervising

carol's tip it's a pleasure dr sanders i

know you'll do the best you can i've

heard a wonderful things about this

place and where did you go to medical

school

uh

well uh to lane i i went to tulane it's

a wonderful school son of the south i'd

say and what is your diagnosis

uh dehydration vomiting

chills

fever uh

it's a bit mystifying

we can't find a specific cause mrs hilly

now we'll keep her here under

observation for a few days is that all

you can say

well i'm sorry it's uh

it's very difficult to give an exact

diagnosis with such diffuse symptoms oh

no

oh no you will not keep my baby i will

take her home i will see to her i most

certainly will

doctor

i've got your favorite italian roast

beef

lindy show you when campers on that no

thanks miss ellie all right there you go

and i'll just leave you girls be

thanks mama that's all right sure

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so

carol

carol

um miss haley come quick miss haley

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well she's been like this for two days

darling they gave me something so you

don't have to come back to the hospital

i have permission it's an anti-nausea

drug and i have permission so i don't

have to keep bringing her back into the

er for this now would you help me hold

her um it just don't seem right and i'll

do it myself

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where are you going

um uh

maybe we should just call 9-1-1 you stay

right here you help me hold her legs

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she's got to go to the hospital

you've

for 10 minutes what do you mean no one

found it for 10 minutes just would have

said she was lying there all by herself

marie somebody's got to do something she

can't even walk with himself

saying we've been to three doctors one

member says it's psychosomatic

dr governor

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what are you doing she's doing my job

this stuff was bought with a bounce

check sorry gurley

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carol

melinda

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i can't say it's all cloudy call mama

i don't know what's happening to me

i'm right here

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how was wellington's furniture

marie's check to them just bounced

she's accumulating a stack of bad checks

about as thick as a deck of cards

now why is she doing this ward i don't

know we tried to help her with the

finances ever since frank died

how so well just

simple guidance

she was constantly overdrawn at a few

other banks her accounts closed

so we we tried to help her we opened her

accounts here based on the fact that she

was selling a home of hers down in

florida

well is that going to help with all

these bad checks

it should we're looking to open a 30 000

cd

does wellington's want to press charges

i don't know

i have to call him up

i do know

that marie bought a new car

new car yep

well how's that possible not through us

dealer must have financed it

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i got something for you honey

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nurse gave it to me

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she said

i don't know what they're doing

and maybe

maybe this will help

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but don't tell anyone okay all the nurse

will get drunk

doctor asked me if i ever tried to

commit suicide

what

when

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i ask a silly question like that

yes me if i has eaten pencillets

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what kind of silliness is this supposed

to mean

suicide blood pencils

well i've found slightly elevated levels

of lead and blood and i'm running more

tests you almost certainly not running

any more tests you've had my little girl

in here for a week poking draining

bleeding

i'm taking her out of here right now um

but you can't she can do anything i want

i want her discharged in my care

immediately arrange for this instant i

demand it you cannot keep

but they might know what they're doing

this incompetence is criminal i won't

have it

come on

it all started after the death of her

husband

threatening phone calls well nuisance

calls phoned ring nobody on the other

end

there's the fires first in the closet

obvious arson

some breaking and entering

and then the house fire

we've got a laundry list of slowly

accumulating violence here

it's bizarre you need to tell me that

she's emptied three bank accounts is now

writing checks on a non-existent account

and he's into

two banks for thousands yeah

ward bella may open an account for her

based on the sale of a house doesn't

exist

i don't believe this woman she's got a

job gets a dead husband social security

and has gone through 30 000 life

insurance in less than a year

the only monthly payment she's made good

on

yeah is her daughter's life insurance

policy

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you know why

you're under arrest

oh wow

a lot of bad checks marie

can't tell you how disappointed i am

about this

you have a right to remain silent don't

leave me mama i'm afraid i won't go home

to the uh what do y'all got here

partial paralysis blindness

neurological decomposition

gastrointestinal cancer wait a minute

i don't believe it

i just read about this there's

striations these lines through the nails

this is something if you're not looking

for it's hard to find so what does it

mean honey

honey

can you hear me

either you did this to yourself

someone's trying to kill you

uh look get a hair sam

this kid is full of arsenic

arsenic

no thanks

i'll get back to you

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you have to trust me

we go before the grand jury tomorrow

i know she's your mother

but without you

i have nothing

you had 100 times the normal level of

arsenic in your body

those shots they weren't anti-nausea i

just can't mr hubbard

she's my mother

i can't explain it i just

without you

she set those fires

she's the ones been calling you

she did all of this

deliberately

forget the bad checks

forget the arson

forget these tormenting phone calls

she's made to you

she murdered your own daddy girl

and one more dose and she would have

murdered

you you are now

the only living witness

this isn't a bad check charge i'm after

you have to help

she's my mama

do you think my mom is crazy

what do you think

i kind of wish she was

carol

your mama knows exactly what she's doing

he was all premeditated

indictments will never count

uh come on

the grand jury

has chosen to indict on bad checks

murder first degree on

your daddy

and uh

an attempt to poison on you

what's gonna happen to me

when i see this information joe has to

be

uh excuse me

what

the fowler just got her off on 14 000

bond 14 000

well miss marie called in her markers

from all over town

there's some big ones

where is she

fowler said he wanted to keep the press

off her he's got her checked into a

motel in birmingham

birmingham

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right there

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you led me straight to

her you will

hear from me

i see

been kidnapped

yeah right

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oh my god carol

we gotta get back up dennis

this is 479. let me talk to les

we've arrived at hilly residence do we

have any further updates

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she's escaped

gone carol

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i want you to come over to my place

to be safe with my family

she can't spend her life in fear and

hiding there's no way to live i'll be

all right i'll stay with that

all right

i'll post a watch on you then

we're gonna get her carol

it's the last thing i do she's gonna be

done hurting people

i'm gonna get her

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robbie hannon double n that's right

this is a very impressive resume robbie

i think we'll be able to place you in a

new yoga community

just in time too either that'll find

myself a little sugar daddy

well there's more than a few of those

around if you don't mind i'm a little on

the well done inside

where are you staying now uh hotel just

off the beach the florida breeze well

you check this lead out see if you like

it

and i'll meet you over at the sand and

sea around five-ish

for a cocktail we'll show you around a

bit

it's a deal

come on

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a lot of the rich guys from the marina

coming here all the time

not bad huh

now some of these guys are married but

a lot of them aren't

what about him

john homan rumor has it he's from money

but if he's got it he doesn't flash it

he likes to get his hands dirty he works

on boats

like a man who can walk with his hands

oh now that all depends on where he puts

them

much money

nothing that i'd quit my day job for

he's really a blue collar kind of guy

i've talked to maybe once or twice

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kind of like his looks

that's really one of the most

interesting things i've ever heard

i can't believe i'm talking as much i

don't usually at all

i you make me feel

so comfortable

i feel the same huh

who uh who is this person you missed

very much

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i'm sorry

i'm sorry

what

i'm sorry take it easy the way i'm

acting

well

tell me

tell me if you want

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you

you remind me of my husband

he and my two children were killed

in an automobile accident a year ago in

texas

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i've been

sort of lost

adrift ever since

my marriage failed

wow

it's hard

she is left me

i'm not real close with my family um i'm

pretty much of a disappointment to them

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i like to work with my hands

yeah

i think that's a decent and honest thing

for a man to do

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why would any woman in her right mind

leave a man like you

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can i

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can i see you again

yes

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john

john

hi honey i gotta go i'm tightening all

the rest of these and you check those

belts

that day that main squeeze yours got you

on a tight leash don't

what something like that seeing

something like me

oh you look wonderful

you really think

so just just do it

start life overs throw away all that old

baggage and clutter just just change

maybe we could

as far from here as

i want snow

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i want snow

i have some friends in new hampshire uh

walt and maggie they're really nice

people i could call them ask them if

they could find us a place to live

you'd have snow and if

if winter doesn't come i'll buy you snow

all the snow you want hell

anything you want i want it yeah why did

i want snow for snowball fights and cozy

fires

john robbie will you marry me

don't be afraid of change dear

i've ordered new furniture

these shades

just don't do

everything's fine i like everything just

the way it is

thinking of something peachy what do you

think maggie

i've always been partial to peach myself

how much all this gonna cost

money

cost

that was bothering you

no

no no i mean money doesn't mean anything

to me never has never will oh just get a

job then

you know robbie there's a job open where

i work at central school they've been

awfully good to maggie over the years

you guys could have fun

you don't need to get a job we got

plenty of money

you don't want me barefoot and pregnant

do you

a wall

you don't want maggie before pregnant

yes sir

let's get myself a job

you think you want to keep me under your

thumb

i'm so excited

well you should fit right in we have a

nice group here

there's been a lot of hello to there

you know i've been so many places

blessed as i was

my first husband uh a lawyer

was quite wealthy

he

died in an automobile

i'm sorry

steal out the call to an aspen but

i doubt i'll ever see paris again

no that's

too bad

yes sir

idle hands the devil's mischief will do

yes that's true

well

all i need now is for you to fill in

this w-4 form name address and social

security number okay

you can bring it back later if you like

thanks

thanks a lot

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that's very lonely

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you're a woman of many layers

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you're so good to me

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my

assistant terry she'll keep the condo we

have an aspen

if that inheritance ever comes through i

swear those texans act like snares

instead of mine and terrorists

robbie

telephone

i'm back

god i'm sick of that woman's trials and

tribulations

i think she's sweet

she's just you know had some trouble

maggie

hello

wow i was expecting you to come

i think she is trouble

lived her life for over a year now

hers and that lap dog husband of hers

well i love you too

it's him on the phone now

hi honey just call to say i love you

well i like her

robbie

that social security number of yours

something's wrong the computer seems to

kick it out and payroll is having some

problems

could you call them

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i've got some tickets so would you like

to look just can't believe how much

weight i put on

a happy marriage does that to you

rhonda

i

feel somehow that you are a trustful

decent human being

and i've never told anyone this but

somehow i

feel i need to share with you

i

have an incurable blood disease

i've known for some time

it's progressive oh

robbie

i'm so sorry

the doctors in boston

recommend specialist in dallas great

then we'll go no no no no

i'll go alone

i've talked to terry and dallas and she

can take care of me it's better this way

i'd like if you'd

take care of the house

your husband i want to be with you i

want to be there for whatever i've had

so much grief and tragedy in my life

should anything happen i want to spare

us both

the mortal and painful motions we feel

we'd have to go through

and just remember the best things john

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you should not be going through this by

yourself faith terry will take good care

of me we'll call every day

i can't shake the feeling that i'm never

going to see you again

god works in many ways things always

work out for the best

my heart and my thoughts will be with

you

i love you

so

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john this is terry yes sir

it's over

i'm sorry

oh no

she went quietly and easily

it was her hope that you and i need to

console one another in our grief

whatever

whatever she wanted

yeah

whatever

my flying day after tomorrow

she sent her love i'll bring it to you

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uh

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arriving passenger martin

please meet your party at the

information desk

your attention please robbie

my god she said you were identical twins

but

it's incredible people are always saying

that

joan i want you to know she was very

brave

and she loved you very much and i can

see why you give off the aura of a very

kind man

non-smoking flight it's robbie's bread

but i smoked twice as many of it's been

a harrowing ordeal

you um you have any luggage

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she wanted me to remember her to

everyone at work

it's beautiful up here

i never been to new england before

feel so

homey

what is she like

she loves snow

fur

not me

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died after a long illness

dallas

member of sacred heart church in tyler

born in buffalo new york

daughter of hugh and cindy grayson

formerly employed by central screw

company in keene

survivors include john

and two sisters jean anne trevor of

white plains new york

and terry martin of dallas

no funeral

requested her body be donated to the

medical research institute

of texas

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she told me so much of all of you

she wanted me to come and remember

herself to you

who's rhonda

and you

maggie

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it's maggie robbie and you know it

terry

i'm a twin sister terry if i've been

called robbie once i've called it a

zillion times

you were her dearest closest friend

why

like to stay a while and talk to you

about her when i can but

my main concern now is john

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what the hell is she doing what

who

that woman

that's not any terry martin

that's robbie

what are you talking about robbie's dead

you're crazy

what is that woman up to

what's he up to

how could he be that stupid

maggie she's an identical twin i saw a

show once on twins and you couldn't tell

that's robbie

i know it is

let me see that obituary again

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hello

hello

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stop doing this

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do you hear me

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i like to watch you eat

um

john um

this is going to be very hard for me

but

somehow i think ravi would want it this

way

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um

i've

fallen in love with this little village

the people

i'd be lying if i said that i didn't

feel

feel a strong attraction to you

there

you don't think ill of me

just

oh i don't know

we have so much in common

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maybe

maybe for just a little while

seems to ride

you know

i mean it's as if robbie came back to

life in you

i can feel the spirit flowing in me

out to you i

can't help

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i ask you a question

of course

kelly i don't know

it's kind of naughty

all right

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romantic

as

good

as ronnie

you are

you're different

you're different from anybody i've ever

been with before

thank you

geez what

she stayed and got a job in

rattleborough

where is she now

she's at john's i just saw her at lunch

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hello terry

it's maggie

i'm fine

how are you

well i

called well we girls we'd like to send

our condolences to your sister you know

g nan

oh it's it's no problem

what's her address

well i think she just moved

well i have to call her to find out

you really need to concern yourself

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we are dear

damn

rhonda

yeah

well i've been on the phone and you all

thought i was nuts i've written it all

down

read it

does that satisfy you there is no

medical research institute

there is no sacred heart church in tyler

texas

what

and there is no gene entrepreneur in

white plains new york

and

there is no record of death in and about

dallas texas three one robbie

excuse me ma'am

excuse me

uh ma'am pardon me

excuse me man

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i'm tom blakely from the federal bureau

of investigation

we have reason to believe that you are

somebody other than who you say you are

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i can understand that

uh would you accompany us to police

headquarters please

of course

right around this way to blue car please

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who are you

audrey marie hilly

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yeah

are you running or hiding from something

that we should know about misleading

nothing much we'll check charge where

was that

alabama you've run a long way for a

little bad paper miss hillary

well it's ridiculous what they accuse me

of

do you know how hard it is to hide

every few months you have to quit every

job you have i guess your phony social

security number kicks back

what did you do miss ellie

it's ridiculous

i was her own mother

i mean it's absurd

what's absurd

you know how hard it is to run

to hide

it's very tiring

i'm glad it's over well it's not miss

hilly if i murder one and attempt to

poison

lady you're alabama bound

i'd really rather not go back there

step into the car this week

so

why'd you play me for a fool terry

robbie marie

john my real name is audrey mariely

i

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did you do those things they say you did

marie

oh i didn't do those things it's all

nonsense it's a conspiracy my in-laws

and the police i had a little problem

with money but i certainly didn't kill

anyone why

why didn't you trust me enough to tell

me tell me the truth

i wanted to protect you

to save what we had

i did it because

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i don't think you're good

why don't you tell me

it could have helped quite helped you

i was afraid of losing you

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you're a decent

kind loving husband

and i'm all alone except for you

all alone in this world

no you're not

oh you had me

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fowler mr jilly denies all the charges

this is hilly if you're not guilty who

do you think committed the murder no

comment

why don't you ask for a change of values

how long do you think how about motions

going to finally more emotions

call your first witness mr hubbard

prosecution calls

carol hillary

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oh

when you first became ill

what were your symptoms

just throwing up

just

throwing up

how often would you throw up

hours and hours

it would stop and then it would go on

forever for weeks

did your mother give you injections at

any time

yes uh my mom said she got in some to

make the nausea go away

did it

no sir

did

at any time anyone suggest that your

symptoms might be psychological

yes i was put in a psychiatric ward

did your mother give you injections

there

yes sir

i just wanted to go home but the doctors

kept telling me it was in my head and i

couldn't go home until i could walk or

gained 15 or 20 pounds

it didn't look good

so

my mom said

one time there was this little girl who

had the same problem

and a nurse

gave her a shot

and it helped this little girl

mama said it would help my legs

and your mother told you not to tell

anybody

yes sir

did you find relief

i was just getting worse

then they told me my mother couldn't see

me anymore

and then your mother took you out of

that hospital

how did you get around

my mother she would just sort of

drag me

i wanted to go home

just go home and die

but you didn't go home

where did you go uab

when was the first time you were told

what was wrong with you

at uab

it was arsenic poisoning

how long were you in physical therapy

because of arsenic poisoning

10 months

i couldn't walk

my hands were numb

i couldn't dress myself

i just kept trying

did you ever experience

nausea or vomiting when your mother gave

you food

all the time that summer

day after day

week after week

carol

i want you to try and think back to

april 1917.

would you like to take a little break

we can

take a recess or we can just stop for a

minute which would you rather

break

prosecution requests a short recess your

honor i think that's fine counselor

total recess for 15 minutes

if

marie hilly had intended to kill her

daughter

she would have taken the girl home and

let her die

not taking her to hospital after

hospital

and doctor after doctor

the girly suicidal as we have shown

and if money was a so-called motive

mrs hilly would have bought a much

larger policy

wouldn't you think

it was a concerned wife and mother

who took

first her husband

then later her daughter to the hospital

when they became ill who unhesitatingly

consented to an autopsy

i ask you

to do your duty

and find the defendant

not guilty

thank you

carol hilly

loves her mother

god made that bond

carol did not break that bond

marie hilly broke that bond

when she took it into her own hands

to dispose of the child that she bore

for money

she's not your ordinary housewife

looks like one

acted like one

but that's not what she really is

what she really is

is a cold-blooded

murderous

of course she agreed to an autopsy of

frank hilly

unless you look specifically for it

you won't find arsenic poisoning

it mimics hundreds of things

she knew this

and she murdered this fine man

for thirty one thousand dollars

and having gone through this money in

short order she attempted the same thing

again

with the daughter that she brought into

this world

for twenty five

thousand dollars

one more dose

and kennel hillary

would have been in the ground

right next to a dear dead daddy

this crime

is nearly

unspeakable

look at her

look at her

she is not

your ordinary mother

she is a cold

calculating

cunning

killer

thank you

that concludes the final argument so

we'll take a short recess after which i

will instruct the jury as to the

appropriate law for this case

then you may retire to deliberate on

your verdict

carol

i love you

leave her alone marie

come see me

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and having been found guilty on all

counts

of murder in the first degree and of

attempted poisoning

i hereby sentence you to life and 20

years imprisonment at the julia tutwiler

state prison for women in watanka

this court is now observed

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this is

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so

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oh

my hair must look a mess

i should do something with it they've

been taking pictures and all

how could you have done this to me

don what

i'm your daughter

don't you have anything to say

i couldn't call you

you must know why

how could you think that

it's preposterous it's untrue now calm

down marie the report may be of no merit

and if that's so it won't affect your

request for a three-day furlough

but i i've never talked to anyone

regarding escape i've done everything

asked of me in the last three years

marie your executive skills your

leadership

your artwork are an inspiration to us i

don't want your admiration i want your

trust

i am so

disappointed

that you would think that i would even

think of escaping all right

now calm down okay

i'll look into the report

and i'll see what i can do okay

thank you

thank you warden

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uh

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six miles to the gallon

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i don't know

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it's not exactly a four-star hotel is it

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you're here i'm here

it's all that matters john

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well i i want to wake you see the truth

is

i've been laid off

i'd return a rental car this morning i'm

gonna

i'm gonna take you back on this

you can't be serious

boy marie

marie i'm sorry

i'm sorry marie

there's nothing i can do

i'm hungry

try

i'll just run out i get whatever you

want

whatever

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so

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are you sure

i could be there then

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i'll meet you when i can't

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what'd you get

let's get some gravy

who's that on the phone dodie

no just what i said she wants to visit

my parents graves with me

well i can take you

i have to do this alone

i'll be back bill mcmurray marie marie

marie

marie

marie

you can't

so

lieutenant gary carroll please

thank you john

i got birmingham airport

all the bus depots and amtrak last time

she stole the car yeah i got her

description out on the radio i'll call

carol can we get a car up there to watch

her sure

all right

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okay

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you need to tell me that you were going

to take her back

100 miles

on a motorcycle in this weather

got a raincoat for

who is dodie

don't know

you bet you don't there isn't any dodie

how much money did you have

did i know

three bucks

cause she's gone

vanished

a spider through a crack in the flow

how long she could be gone this time

john

when you seem to know her

if that woman could ever be known

mr holman said she went to visit her

parents graves with dodie

dodie yes dodie who is she

i don't know mama didn't know anybody

named dodie carol

think

think real hard

there's got to be somebody that we have

overlooked

i told you i don't know

don't you understand i don't know

anything about my mother

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cardiac arrest due to acute hypothermia

excuse me

i don't figure it

a woman who never spent five minutes in

the woods her entire life

she must have been waiting for somebody

and he didn't show up

she could have been long gone

it's ironic

what is she spent a whole life trying to

get away from her

and she crawls back to the very shack

she was born in

to die

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the real cause of marie hilly's death

and her three days in the woods remain a

mystery to this day

in 1989 john holman was murdered in a

bizarre robbery attempt at the old hotel

in maniston alabama where he remained

after the death of his beloved marie

carol hilly

survives

he founded a cult of love these are my

concubines makes my skin cry but she saw

through his lies these moses who did

this to you no quebec police have a

final name a mile long based on a true

story hidden evil

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