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. .she wasn’t around her for two weeks. So. . .you
know.. .1 just.. I can’t believe anything that I was told. But I asked her why she waited so long to call me and she said well, she couldn’t find my telephone number. Well, I can’t believe that because I live here.  She’s been to my house. She knows my phone number.
Det. Sudler:
Were you told of...you know...why Lisa was sick or
what type of.. .you know.. .illness she had?
McPherson:
Benetta said the doctor said she had the fast
acting meningitis.
Det. Sudler:
Okay.
McPherson:
Then that was changed to a.. .a blood clot going to
the lung.
Det. Sudler: Okay. When was that changed?
 McPherson:
Oh, right after she died. ..the next two or three
days we were talking back and forth.
Det. Sudler:
Okay. Alright. Umm.. .but Benetta had told you
that, at 12:00 on the 5th, she started to get real sick?
McPherson:
She said she started getting sick around noon. And
I understood her to say at the office. And she said she just kept getting sicker and sicker. So they finally took her onto the hospital.
Det. Sudler:
And this illness or whatever occurred at her office
 . . .her place of employment?
McPherson:
That’s what she said.
Det. Sudler:
And that would be AMC Publishing?
McPherson:
Right.
Det. Sudler:
Okay. Umm. . .you. . .now you mentioned that that was
contradicted later on. Umm.. .how was that contradicted
and by whom?
McPherson:
Okay. Later on I was told that Lisa was staying at

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