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Texas Monthly.

It was a cold winter day in Indianapolis. In early 2006, when Don Miller arrived along with his

partner Russell Ford. They just flown in from Dallas and they were there to try and see Michael

Woods, the estranged husband of Susan Woods, the man Susan's friends and family believed,

had killed her. They found their way to Michael's address and pulled up in front of a worn two-story

home in a working-class neighborhood. They took a deep breath and stepped onto the front porch.

You know, we're a couple of Texas boys. We weren't ready for how cold it was going to be.

And so we go up dressed in our summer at higher. I might have had on a sport coat and knock on the

door and not thinking Michael was going to answer, but he did. He answered the door. He cracked the

door open. And I told him who I was and he said, yeah, Miller, I told you I wasn't going to cooperate.

And see, I understand. But I just started talking.

They weren't the first police officers who made this trip from Texas, hoping they could charm

Michael into cooperating. The last two who tried it, Michael says he invited them to try their

luck in a gunfight in his front yard. He didn't trust the police and that would double for Texas

police. He suspected they would do just about anything to blame him for Susan's death.

But things were different now. Michael was different. Warned down by nearly 20 years of drugs and

booze and broken dreams. The ever-present suspicion that he killed his wife. The certainty,

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