Discretion is advice.

This is a minute-man.

The Mod family ran an automobile, the model, beginning.

The Mod family ran an automobile empire, beginning in 1957 with Charles Maude, opening his own auto group.

Charles Maudeauldsmobile Cadillac.

The success was passed on through the generations, and by the time Charles' grandson, Eric Maud, was born, the family was living in luxury,

and Eric was incorporated into the business as soon as he was old enough to work.

In 2020, 45-year-old Eric was living inside a $5 million 10-bedroom mansion in Texas, overlooking Austin Country Club.

Eric was married with children, but on a trip to Nashville to see one of his kids in college,

he met up with another woman, a 33-year-old beautician and escort named Holly Williams.

Although Eric gave Holly a fake name, calling himself Eric Moore to avoid her finding

out his real identity, his affair with her wasn't entirely no strings attached. Holly had just

broken up with her long-term boyfriend, a man named Bill Lanway. Their relationship had been

emotionally volatile, and sometimes physically violent.

And only a few months before meeting Eric, Holly had officially put an end to things.

However, Bill remained a constant presence in her life.

They kept living together after the breakup, and Bill continued to be violent and controlling.

In January of 2020, Bill had gotten angry at Holly and then started strangling her while telling

her, quote, this is only happening because you tried to run away. After the incident,

Holly had gone to the cops, telling them that she had been convinced that Bill was going to kill her.

It wasn't the first time that Holly had called the police on Bill.

In fact, it was the third time.

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