I came across an article from a couple of months ago that I thought I would share, and that is a recounting of the infamous 1998 Slide Mountain murder of Rinette Riella by her husband, Peter. The case gained widespread coverage in northern Nevada media and even some national media. While on first glance it looked like an accident and not staged, a host of little facts added up to coldblooded murder, done because Peter was a selfish man who wanted his wife home bearing babies or wanted her dead in order to clean up on the insurance payouts and inheritance of her share of the family farm in California.
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| Slide Mountain, where incident happened, from below. |
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It was later concluded that the vehicle was turned toward the guardrail at an angle of 60 to 90 degrees in order to bust through it. It was also doubtful that the brakes on a 1-year-old truck would simply fail. And then there were the two unsealed cans of gasoline in the back, perhaps there to ensure the truck, and Rinette, would meet a fiery end.
The next morning, Bergna agreed to be questioned by Beltron and other investigators at the Washoe County Sheriff’s Station in Incline Village, a few miles from his house.
“There was some grief when he told us, ‘I tried to stop, I tried to stop,’ but it was nothing more than the words,” Beltron said. “He looked like he was hyperventilating, but he wasn’t.”
“He spontaneously said, ‘I don’t cheat on my wife,’” Beltron added. “It was like ‘ding ding ding,’ no one asked you.”
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Yeah, Peter, you were innocent. You got off easy with 20 years in prison.
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Obituary: Game show host, singer, and actor Chuck Woolery, died yesterday at the age of 83, it was announced today. He was the original host of Wheel of Fortune, but he left after a salary dispute.
As far as I am concerned, he was THE host of the game show. He was good-looking, he was personable, he could ad lib, and he put the contestants at ease. He was an extrovert. He was everything his successor, Pat Sajak, wasn't as a game show host.
No, I didn't agree with his politics, but he was good at what he did best.
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Charles Herbert Woolery was born on March 16, 1941, in Ashland, Kentucky. His father, Dan, owned a fountain-supplies company, and his mother, Katherine, was a homemaker.
He briefly attended the University of Kentucky before dropping out to serve a couple of years in the U.S. Navy, then studied economics at Morehead State University while working a sales job at Pillsbury. He left school again, this time to pursue a career in music in Nashville, and he and singer-guitarist Elkin “Bubba” Fowler founded The Avant-Garde in 1967 and signed with Columbia Records.
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