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They identify their suspects as 45-year-old Steven Durst and his 18-year-old daughter Deanna. It turns
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out Steven has a history with the Markley family, and it isn't pretty. Police learned that Steven was one of
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John's employees at the trucking company. He and two of his younger kids actually lived with John and Shel for a
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few months while he was going through a divorce. Per a court order, if the Markleys hadn't taken them in, Steven
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would have lost custody of his kids because he was on the road so much. But he ends up getting kicked out and fired
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after this money dispute. John may have like withheld some of his last paycheck because he suspected Steven of selling
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off some fuel on a truck route, which Steven denies. He claims he left the house on his own when he got another
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job. And how recently did all this go down? So Steven lived with the Margleys from
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October of 1993 to June of 1994. And police learned from the family that Steven had come back to the house a few
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times asking for either his job back or for the money that he thought Jon owed him. And John's sister told us that one
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of those times the argument spilled from the house to the garage. And Steven threatened to beat Jon with a 2x4 that
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he found there in the