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Det. Sudler:
Okay. Umm. . .1 guess moving into other more recent times
with regard to.her traffic accident...
Decuypere:
Uh Huh.
Det. Sudler:
Can you tell me what your involvement was in that?
Decuypere:
Umm. .1 was trying to think of what the.. .even the day
that was. I know it was night time and I got a call from Benetta Slaughter, who is her employer. And she said that she’d been in an accident and could I go to the hospital. Because apparently Mrs. Slaughter was. . .had been working all day. She had paint on her and. . .and I know that Mrs. Slaughter does not like blood and that sort of thing. So she asked if I could go.
Det. Sudler:
Okay. Had there been any concern about any injury that
Lisa may have sustained in that accident?
Decuypere:
I.. .1 don’t think that Mrs. Slaughter was aware of what
had occurred.
Det. Sudler:
Okay.
Decuypere:
And.. .because she didn’t relay that to me. She just
said that she was at Morton Plant and could I go over there.
Det. Sudler:
Okay. And that was sometime in the evening?
Decuypere:
Uh Huh.
Det. Sudler:
Okay. Umm.. .was that call made here at your office or
at.. .at...
Decuypere:
Uh Huh.
Det. Sudler:
Here?
Decuypere:
Yeah, it was here.
Det. Sudler:
Umm. . I take it you went to the hospital?
Decuypere:
Yeah.
Det. Sudler:
Okay. What happened there?
Decuypere:
Umm. . .I’m trying to recall what did occur. I went in
and asked if there was a Lisa McPherson. Oh, I do recall now.. . Mr. Slaughter. . .David Slaughter was

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