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Greg and Brenda Kirkley owned his shoe store in Corvallis, Oregon

Brenda handled the finances and Greg took care of sales

making it a true family business the couple's infant daughter was off in president

On June 10th 1982 as the store was opening Greg Kirkley was shot in the back

Brenda was hysterical and the baby was laying unharmed in her bassinet

was Greg killed by a stranger or was it possible that the Kirkley's marriage wasn't as

idealic as it appeared from a and e this is cold case files i'm broke and here's the sensational

bill Curtis with a classic case a desperate housewife

on a June morning a woman calls 911

Corvallis police officer Mary Eichler catches the call

the dispatcher came on and said that they have a call from moky's shoe store that there's some kind

of disturbance and there's a woman outside screaming Eichler knows the store well it's owned by

her friends Brenda and Greg Kirkley of course I headed there because if you have a friend that's

involved you're gonna go outside Eichler finds Brenda in hysterics inside Brenda's infant daughter

lies at a bassinet unharmed while the baby's father Greg lies on the floor shot once in the back

I saw Greg on the floor and I still can see Greg on the floor and he was already looking really bad

very white not good Greg is later pronounced dead and Mary Eichler finds herself asking a new

widow what happened she just said the guy came into the store and he shot Greg he was described as an

Indian middle eastern Indian male dressed with a dark clothing carry in a shotgun and he ran

down this alley according to her captain Wilbur Hackema responds to the scene within minutes

and assists in the search for Greg Kirkley's alleged attacker if this person came out of this shoe

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