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in Spring of 2014 an acquaintance of mine called to say that his very dear friend Nancy Fister had been murdered
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here in Aspen he and other aspenes were deeply concerned about the intense media
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coverage the case was receiving especially considering the colorful reputation of the victim and the city
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they lived in I told him if I covered the story at least he would know and trust one person who was on the ground
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looking into it but I cautioned him that our job at 48 hours is to investigate and Report what we find and sometimes
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people don't always like the information or agree with it what we found when we got here is that for locals Aspen true
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Aspen is pretty much that everyone knows everyone and because Nancy fister's family was integral in developing one of
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the mountains here into a worldclass ski resort everybody knew Nancy in fact it was rather astonishing that everyone we
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talked to had a story about Nancy Fister and most of it was told through a nostalgic Haze of tears and laughter as
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they would tell us about the time that Nancy had behaved so outrageously so horrifically that they stopped talking
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to her for a while that was the public image of Nancy the party girl the private side of Nancy according to her
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friends was that she was much more manageable charming and easy to love much like their beloved Aspen and just
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like as they said about their friend and people here vehemently argued that Asen
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is much more than it's celebrity crazed Beautiful People billionaires playground
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image too however for as much as people here went on and on about the real Nancy
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and the real Aspen privately very few were willing to stand up and speak for either publicly including some
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well-known residents and elected officials so were they trying to protect Nancy or Aspen or maybe an image that
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they had created of both it's hard to say for sure but from this reporter's perspective it was a missed opportunity
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to share something wonderful a lesser Lovelier truth about this one particular person and this particular place by
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people who said they knew them best I'm Moren Maher as always we invite you to join us live during and after the show
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