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hated her."
"Okay. At any time did she feed the fire?"
Tom allowed that Pat had gotten his parents worked up and then started
on him. He said the shooting at Lake Lanier just about made his father
go "crazy."
"Do you think Pat did it?"
Tom shook his head. "She was with me ... shoeing horses rifles and
down in Lithonia.... They [the police] took my checked, and there was
no way my rifles could have done that.
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... He [Tom 5 s father] got all bent out of shape and went out and
bought a gun ... and he told all those people that it was gonna be over
by the weekend. I was supposed to be in a parade in Atlanta.
The only thing I could figure out was he was planning on shooting me in
the parade."
"What did Pat say about all of this?" frowned with the effort to "It
was a long time ago - Tom of stirred it up and made it worse.
emember. "She just kind 'putative type person that . . . Pat was a
very headstrong, mani would do anything to get what she wanted-and you
not know she was doing it. She could take a married man and turn him
completely around . . .
and talk him out of thirty years of marim not even know it. . . .
Unless you'd been there, riage and h' imagine what it was like. Pat
would have some idea you couldn't in her mind and she was going to get
her way. If she came at you one way and you didn't do what she said,
she'd find another 'I you gave in to her. way.
She'd just keep at you until Tom recalled that it was brought up in his
trial that phone calls had been made to his father the afternoon of the
murders. "But I didn't see or hear her make them," he said.
Stoop asked Tom if he believed now that his father had exposed himself
to Pat. person to do something "Naw. My father was not the type of
like that."
"Why do you think she said that?"
"To get me stirred up."
"Did it work?"
"Well, it got me upset, but then . . . I was scared to death. I wanted
to know what was going to happen to me."
Tom's eyes clouded as he remembered his trial. "It was a farce . .
she was sitting there punching me in the ribs, and punching Ed in the
ribs, and the judge was having to tell her to be quiet and if she
didn't stop trying to run his courtroom, she was gonna have to
leave."
"Okay. Let's go up to the murder Itself," Stoop said. "You and Pat
drove up on that particular day together. Correct?"
" I took her to the doctor."
Stoop could sense Tom's retreat; he would have to backpedal on his
questions and wait a while on the murders. "Did she, in fact, go to
the doctor?" he asked.
"I guess she did."
Stoop urged Tom to re-create the rest of that day to the best of his
recollection, to take his time.
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"Okay. I went over there. My mother and father were very systematic
type people. . . . You knew when they were going to get off from work,
when they came home. . . . So I went over there late that afternoon to
talk to Mother, and I thought she would be home round about then. So I
didn't drive over there cause I dropped Pat off and she had the car.
.
. . I walked maybe half a block or a block-something like that-I was
going to try to get her to talk to him, to get him to calm down a
little bit, and I couldn 't talk to her at the office. . . . I
definitely couldn't talk to her on the phone, since he wouldn't let her
talk. . . . He was very hard at the house. He ran the place. . . .
And so the only way of trying to get anything done was to talk to my
mother without him being there."
Tom said he sometimes suspected Pat didn't really want his relationship
with his parents resolved. "She was doing everything she could to get
them turned against me."
"Did Pat know you were going to talk to your parents?" Stoop asked.
"Yes."
'She did know that?" Michelle Berry echoed.
" I believe that I was set up on this." Tom leaned forward.
"I really believe that . . . under normal circumstances, I could have
been there and talked to my mother. But my mother was a little late.
The back door was locked, but the basement door was open, so I just
went in the basement door and said, 'Well, I'll just wait down here."
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