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that was just probably totally out of the ‘blue to you.. I mean.. .there wasn’t anything that you could say was leading up to this. .you know? That’s a yes...?
Slaughter:
No, that’s a.. .that’s,correct.
Det. Sudler:
So it would’ve been just a total surprise. Okay.
Det. Jewett:
What do you think. . .1 mean. . .have you got anything to
offer that we didn’t ask? I’mean...we’re really trying to find out what happened and what might have led...
Slaughter:
Well, I think bodies are frail things.. .you know.
I’ve had a lot of family that have died from
heart failure that. . .you know. . .cancer.. .that was a surprise. Bodies are frail things.. .you know. So I don’t know what else to say.. .you know.
Det. Sudler:
But you don’t know of anything.. .any factors in her
life.. .you know? She didn’,t injure herself or fall or. .. .you know. . .was she. . .was she. . .what ‘about drugs or anything. . . alcohol? Did she have a drinking problem
an alcohol problem?
Slaughter:
Not that I know of.
Det. Sudler:
Okay.
Slaughter:
You know. But I don’t think she’d tell me anyway.
I’m. ..I do not drink. I don’t believe in drinking. I don’t believe in drugs.. .you know. So if somebody did, I don’t. . I think I’d be the last person they’d tell unless they were. . .you know.. .just...
De’t. Sudler:
But you never saw her at social functions abusing
alcohol,?
Slaughter:
Absolutely not. I don’t go to social functions
much anyway and I certainly am not gonna go to ones where there’s alcohol, so...
Det. Sudler:
Okay. Airight. Det. Jewett?
Det. Jewett:
No.

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