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OZARK, Mo. As she listened to the outlandish story pour out, slightly slurred, from her new husbands mouth, Jessica King dismissed the tale of his familys two-decade run from the law as the product of an overactive imagination and too many drinks.
The couple had been married two months, and now Lee King was telling her that his father, a balding local cable technician, was actually an international fugitive who had staged one of Englands most infamous bank heists.
A few weeks later, on Dec. 28, all doubts vanished. That night, she said her father-in-law appeared at the newlyweds home, grabbed her arm and, leaning in to fix his eyes on hers, warned her to keep quiet.
I know you know, she said he told her in his native British accent. I will kill you. I will bloody kill you.
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Bucky
(55,334 posts)Unless you cut your congressman in on the game.
HipChick
(25,612 posts)and the police dept didn't have a phone plan to allow them to call overseas?
Mimosa
(9,131 posts)Heck, I never but scratch or lottery tickets.