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Slaughter:
She. . .1 know she was receiving some pastoral counseling.
Det. Sudler:
From the church?
Slaughter:
Yeah.
Det. Sudler:
Okay. Was that received well.. I mean.. .by her?
Slaughter:
Seemed to be.
Det. Sudler:
Was it improving. . .1 mean. . .was she. . .you know...
holding her own?
Slaughter:
Well again. . .you know. . .1 mean. . . she stated that
things were better or things were about the same She didn’t discuss it in any lengths at all.
Det. Sudler:
Do you know who was giving her ‘that type of help
or anything?
Slaughter:
I don’t really.’
Det. Sudler:
Would that be anything that we could find out?
Slaughter:
I have no idea.
Det. Sudler:
Do you know who.. .who her counselor was?
Johnson:’
Back in the summer of that time?
Det. Sudler:
‘Yeah.
Johnson:
No.
Det. Sudler: Because we’d like
to... you know... we'd like to find
that out’. . .1 mean. . .it. . .she may have. . .you know... whether you could disclose it. . .but something in her life that was really bothering her that.. .you know.
Slaughter:
No, I...
Det. Sudler:
That we’d like to find out about.’
Slaughter:
Right. I would doubt that’ any sort of priest or
pastor is gonna be able to discuss that anyway.
Det. Sudler:
Well, that’s true, but.. .you know.. .rnaybe there’s
a’ priest.. .you know.. .priest/parishioner type privilege there. But. . .you know. . .her right to privacy is not an issue right now.. . you know... at that point.

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