Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 104

TIE MTSTEIY WOMAN IN TIE SIEPPAKI CASE 10) one of the two chain bor rowed Aon the Ahema and then moved again to the couch -when he fell asleep He still wore Ma brown corduroy coat and the T-shirt which waa to disappear permanently some time between midnight and the next morning The Ahene went home around mttdght and Marilyn sleepily saw them to the door to my good-by-forever it turned out Sum still lay mlerp on the couch in the living room As often before on windy nights the Aherns decided nut to sleep hi their own bedroom but to urn the guest room overlooking Erie fun listening to the waves" Nanqr Ahem often fold friends Meanwhile at the Sheppard home Marilyn left Sam an the couch end cl imbed the stain for the hut time Far the pest few months ahe and Sam had been sleeping in the bedroom on the lake aide She had told her deentag woman that its twin beds were non suitable than their double bed because Sam had a cold Finally in her pajamas ahe went into the familiar lakeside roam with ite few pieces of furniture her Grandmother Reese's twin beds It held the Boetoa the hui Marilyn served pplminrr string beam and tamed salad For drmert they bad the blueberry pie he had made that day No drinks men taken at the Sheppard home that evening Aa always Sam ate with enormoua appetite and before starting Ida meal he put on a brown corduroy coat in place of Mb earlier eanvaa Jacket againat the chilly evening While they ate they all Uatened to the radio broadcast of the Clevelend Chicago hnee-ball game After dhmer Don Ahem went home briefly with hia two children to put them to bed (By la the nest day then was to be no sign that the four Ahema had ever been in the Sheppard hnmr imt a ainSle Ahem flngrrprint remained For that matter the Sheppard fumituro the telephone even the Mtcheit-wan would he barren of any prints at alL Them would only be two dear prints in the entfae houm: Sam's left ttaeuk pi hit on the headboard of Marilyn's bed and one of Chip's palm prints on the inaide of the living room desk Both thh desk and the den desk with dartre roughly pulled out and papen peering from them would show odd scratch-marks if made by a rough doth being paeenil thoroughly over them but no fingerprints) On Mb return to the Sheppard houm Don Ahem found Marilyn Sam and Ida wife Nancy in the living room The radio was atm on but they wn watching a triurleion Upstairs in one bediocm little Chip slept soundly In another bedroom stood the auitraaee of the Sheppard houm guest Dr Lester Hoventen who had gone away for the week end to visit other friends In the living room still listening to the 15-hming game by radio the two coupiea began watching a film an the television act Sara had begun wateMng an the floor As the evening progressed be moved to alt with Mb wife on a jp THE AMERICAN WEEKLY April I IfSS.