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on May 3rd 2008 in Hinsdale County two people went for a walk up along this beautiful place called Cottonwood
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Creek one person came back from that walk and one person did not Fred meller said his wife fell off a 20ft
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cliff landing on her head onto rocks hard granite and from there she crumpled and oozed into the
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creek and simply disappeared Leslie Muller did not die from falling off a cliff Leslie Muller did not die because
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she got taken by a creek when Leslie Mueller was taken out of that Creek she had no injuries of any
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significance she was drowned she was found with her head under a log by all appearances Fred and Leslie Mueller were
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a happy couple Leslie meller is a woman who in the last years of her life became very
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devout to her Faith Christian faith Catholicism the defendant told the agent from the Colorado bu investigation that
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yeah he had a Wandering eye but he didn't act on it the defendant put her head under the water under a log and
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left her there to die and the defendant is guilty of murder in the second degree they did CPR
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for 20 minutes she was not bleeding she did not have an ounce of blood coming from her
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Leslie Mueller was dead because the defendant drowned her in that Creek not because she fell off a
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cliff he told the story that made absolutely no sense and his story never really wa
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never really wavered most of the time it was word for word that his wife fell off his
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cliff feet and landed on her face her head her shoulders the story that he told could
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not be true it cannot be true you will see no sign down there that anyone fell off that Cliff you
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won't see a single disturbance and you're going to know that Leslie's body did not
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end under that log by natural causes she was drowned by someone and that someone is the man in
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court the defendant Fred Muller