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Castlewood Country Club is located in Pleasanton California it's an upper middle class Community it's a beautiful
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place to raise a family for lack of a better word um very hoidy toyy most crime we have is a out of hand cocktail
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party my mom and dad were wonderful adventurers they love to travel in March 2008 we were planning to
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go to Hawaii my husband My Two children and myself with my two parents I had been calling my mother
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several times a day for four five six seven days continues to go to voicemail every
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day and so I call my brother hey have you heard from Mom or Dad we're supposed to be going to Hawaii on Saturday and he
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says to me no I haven't heard from Dad I finally called called The Country Club to see if all was well at the home
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but it was not an exclusive address did not stop murder there was blood spatter on the ceilings of the home on the walls
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of the home on the doors of the home that Truly Spoke of the violent nature of this crime the shearers were inside
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the house both of them were in their pajamas and they were brutally murdered Ernest I believe was the first
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victim he suffered multiple blunt force trauma wounds to his head Charlene's injuries were much more dramatic she
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suffered 20 blunt force trauma injuries to her head cut wounds to her wrist her cored arteries and her jugular vein Mr
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Shear fought so hard that his wedding ring flew off his hand I mean he fought until he could fight no
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more I sat there with tears just coming down my face what do I do now called my brother
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you need a plan to drive to Northern California I just found out that Mom and Dad are
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dead and there was pause and he said oh my God what are we going to do this was not a burglary this was not
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a robbery there was something else a foot here there's money there's women there's
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greed there's lies there's deceptions there's ochre when you can't imagine In Your Wildest Dreams someone could do
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this it becomes clear that really anyone could do it