Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer? - Plot & Excerpts
Cunningham's apartment," Shinn began, "youdidn't know anything about himþor about her, did you?" "No, other than that she was dead," Ayers said. Ayers recalled the one-hour-and-fifty-minute conversation he had hadthat night with Brad. It was to be the last time Brad would ever talkto him about anything. After that, he had made himself unavailable tothe investigators. "I asked him about the last time that he had seen Cheryl," Ayerssaid. "And he stated he had seen her Friday evening when he had picked thekids up." Ayers testified that Brad told him Cheryl had agreed to come to hisapartment and pick up the boys. When Ayers said he had informationthat Brad had planned to meet Cheryl at the abandoned Mobile station onthe West Slope, he denied it. "What was the next conversation?" "I asked him if he'd killed Cheryl." "What'd he say?" "He said, No." " "How'd he say it?" "He had a very brief display of emotionþand I mean brief. . . afifteen-to-twenty-second display of emotion. My interpretation of whatthat was wasn't emotion over Cheryl having been killed, but he wasfrightened by the fact that I had asked him that question." Ayers repeated Brad's oft-told stories about Cheryl's affairs with anumber of men and her fondness for country-and-western music. He saidthat she hung out at a truck stop and often went to the nude beach onthe Columbia River. At that point in the investigation, Ayers said, hehad no reason to doubt Brad's description. Later, he said he haddiscovered that Brad had been lying and he saw it as an attempt to suggest that any number of people might have had a motive to murderCheryl. "Did he say he ever left the apartment?" Shinn asked. "Yes, he did," Ayers testified. "He said he left one time just longenough to take some things down to the garage, because he had aninspection to do the next day." "Did he tell you that he and the three little boys were sitting in thelobby for a long time waiting for Cheryl to show up?" "No." "Did he tell you that he took Michael with him for a while, wearing hisjogging costume and his hunting jacket?" "No....
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