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[Music] Castlewood Country Club is located in Pleasanton California it's an upper
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middle class Community it's a beautiful place to raise a family for lack of a better word um very hoyy toyy most crime
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we have is a out of hand cocktail party my mom and dad were wonderful adventurers they love to
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travel in March 2008 we were planning to go to Hawaii my husband My Two children
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and myself with my two [Music] parents I had been calling my mother several times a day for four five 6
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seven days continues to go to voicemail every day and so I call my brother hey have
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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 now I haven't heard from Dad I finally called the country club to see if all was well at the home but it
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was not an exclusive address did not stop murder there was blood spatter on the ceilings of the home on the walls of
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the home on the doors of the home that Truly Spoke of the violent nature of this crime the shears were inside the
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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 wrists her
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cored arteries and her jugular vein Mr Shear fought so hard that his wedding ring flew off his hand I mean he fought
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until he could fight no 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 [Music] 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 that some someone
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could do this it becomes clear that really anyone could do it