The moment he heard his sister Dolores was gone, Matthew Slick Rocha, sprung into action.

In the months before her disappearance, as tensions between Dolores and Carl escalated,

Slick had opened his door to her, offering not just a place to stay, but an open-ended invitation

to remain as long as she needed. He returned to the wolf home after he learned she was gone,

troubled by the thought if she had just stayed with him a little longer, things might have

turned out differently. In the days that followed, the Rocha cousins often gathered in Slick's kitchen to plot their next

moves. Slick stayed out of their antics, but thought about his own ways to get answers.

While Carl had to deal with the cousins and their relentless pressure, the most serious threat

he faced was his

brother-in-law. Slick wanted to make him talk and was prepared to do whatever was needed,

including something he called Plan B. I was going to take him up to the hills west of here,

die him to a tree. Before doing that, I was going to take him up to the hills west of here, tie him to a tree.

Before doing that, I was going to dig a grave.

And I was going to put a gun to his head, shotgun or whatever,

and say, well, you've got two choices, wolf.

You can tell me or the police tomorrow, she that, or I can blow your head off.

And I assumed that he would choose the first one.

Now, I wouldn't have his head blown off.

The way he told us this story was so matter of fact.

There was no crisis of conscience, no moral hurdle, just a plan.

A plan that he was uniquely qualified to carry out.

But his plan B came together, the rest of his family stepped in.

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