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- Witness Interview: Caroline Blanchard
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- Mrs. Blanchard was interviewed on Saturday, November
8, at around 11 p.m., at Baptist Memorial Hospital in
Oxford.
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- Q = Det. Terry Nelson
- A = Caroline Blanchard
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- Q: Mrs. Blanchard, first of all, let me say how our
thoughts go out to you and your family in this time.
- A: Thank you - what do you need from me?
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- Q: I'd like to ask you a few qestions.
- A: All right. I'll do my best, but you have to
understand it's a little upsetting ... (begins crying)
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- Q: I'll do my best to be brief. We can follow up
later, but we need a few details now. Do you know where
Sheriff Lamar has been today or where he was going when
his vehicle crashed?
- A: No. Nothing. We aren't in touch like that.
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- Q: When was the last time you spoke with him?
- A: I guess it was Wednesday. I called to congratulate
him and we talked about Macy. Oh God - my Macy, now we'll
never find her . . . (sobbing) . . . I'm sorry. I'm doing
the best I can. It's just --
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- Q: That's all right, Mrs. Blanchard. Do you know why
Sheriff Lamar might have committed suicide?
- A: No. I find it hard to believe. I can't see him
just getting drunk and high and getting into his car and
crashing it on purpose. But if that's what they say
happened, if he left a note, I guess it's true.
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- Q: Why do you think he would do such a thing?
- A: I don't know. I can't imagine him giving up like
that. Maybe it was our Macy - the pressure - that tramp
Miss Harberson. I'm sure she drove him to his death.
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- Q: Mrs. Blanchard, there were no other cars in the
area at the time of the collision.
- A: You know what I mean. She was bad news for him -
for all of us - the scandal. It's ruined everything -
before then, we were a family - all together, safe . . .
(crying) . . . I can't believe this is happening. I just
can't - we were apart, but we didn't hate each other, we
were almost friends. We had so many memories . . .
(crying)
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- Q: All right. Just a few more questions. Mrs.
Blanchard, where have you been this evening?
- A: What?
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- Q: Where have you been this evening?
- A: (agitated, sobbing and talking at the same time)
What are you saying? Are you saying you think I was
involved? First you tell me it's suicide, my husband's
dead and it's suicide, and now you're treating me like a
suspect?
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- Q: Please, Mrs. Blanchard. You know as well as I do
that we need to ask these standard questions.
- A: (calming down) You're right, Terry. I'm sorry.
I'll try. I just don't understand - if it was suicide -
anyway, I was at home all night. I called my brother
around 9 and we talked for a while, it had been a while
since we talked, and then I was just making a flyer for
church on the computer - getting ready for Christmas. I
was just getting ready for bed when I got called. . . .
is that enough?
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- Q: Yes. So you didn't go out at all?
- A: no. Not at all.
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- Q: All right, Mrs. Blanchard. I think we're through
for now. Do you have somewhere to go tonight?
- A: Yes. Thank you. Someone's going to pick me up.
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- Q: Good. We'll give you a call in a couple of days
and we can talk some more.
- A: All right.
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