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Welcome to Truc Brewery, I'm Jill.

And I'm Dick.

On the day she died, Patricia Blakely Kimball was both in love with and afraid of her husband Ted.

After years of loving him and hoping for his love in return,

the two were married in the spring of 1994.

Ted's father, a Baptist pastor, officiated.

It was the happiest day of Patricia's life,

but for Ted the marriage was only a necessary step to further his career.

His boss had told him that he could take over his business once he found a wife and settled down.

Just over a year into the Kimball marriage, Ted had already checked out.

He wasn't affectionate and he began purchasing life insurance on Patricia without her consent.

Deeply religious, Patricia was torn between her devotion to her wedding

vows and the concerns she had for her safety. Join us at the quiet end for in the House of the Holy

two days after his wife perished in a house fire, Ted tried to collect on her insurance. When he was turned away because Patricia had never

taken the required medical exam, he was enraged.

The police took note of this as they were already looking at him as a suspect in his wife's

death.

But Ted had an ironclad alibi. So was he innocent or could Ted have had a

co-conspirator? Investigators believe the latter, leading them to look more closely

at Ted's relationship with his younger brother

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