Summary
Another person was inside the mansion in a small Wisconsin town the night LaVerne Stordock was killed. Dorothy’s cold case investigation into her uncle’s murder makes a shocking discovery about who could have pulled the trigger.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm hooked on a feeling I'm hiding believe in you're in love with me. |
| 0:17.6 | Oregon, Wisconsin is a nice little town. |
| 0:21.2 | At one time though we did have more birth in Oregon and churches. |
| 0:26.9 | Kids might sneak out to the big city. |
| 0:29.3 | Being Madison, but in 1970 on Saturday night the place to go here was the |
| 0:35.4 | brand new eight lane Oregon bowl and there were those curved seats and mostly |
| 0:44.3 | mostly I would say the women on couple of these kind of sat in those circular |
| 0:50.7 | things and the men stood behind usually drinking a beer. |
| 0:55.3 | This is Arlene Ace. She and her husband Darrell still live in Oregon. |
| 0:59.6 | They used to bowl together on couples night. |
| 1:01.7 | Yeah, it was dim, dim in the bar and the bowling alley. |
| 1:07.8 | That's where they would hang out and drink beers with Suzanne and Verne Stordock. |
| 1:12.6 | Oh, it was, oh, the bowling alley was full all the time. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, that was the social place. |
| 1:18.7 | Including the night Suzanne confessed to killing Verne. |
| 1:24.4 | On a cold snowy night, everyone went out for a little fun and everyone drank. |
| 1:29.3 | But it took a lot of drinks for someone to call you drunk in this part of Wisconsin. |
| 1:33.8 | You didn't stay at the bowling alley all night either. |
| 1:36.6 | Arlene says the fun thing to do was to drive to the boonies to go dancing in P.O.L.I. |
| 1:41.4 | The only reason we were at the sportsman's bar was that it was snowing. |
| 1:46.8 | It was a wintery heavily snowing night. |
| 1:51.9 | Maybe this night would have turned out differently, she says, if the roads weren't slippery. |
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