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0:52 Speaker 02 In 2002, Ryan Wedding was an Olympic snowboarder at the top of his game.
0:57 Speaker 03 Brian's style is really gunning it in gold.
1:00 Speaker 02 And in less than a minute, it slipped away. But he continued to chase the high.
1:06 Speaker 04 Ryan James Wedding. He controls one of the most violent drug trafficking organizations in this world.
1:15 Speaker 02 I'm Michelle Shepherd, and from CBC Podcasts and The Toronto Star, The Most Wanted Olympian, available now.
1:27 Speaker 01 Oklahoma City was shrouded in a quiet chill that December night. It was a couple of weeks before Christmas in 1985. The hum of jet engines could be heard in the distance.
1:42 Speaker 01 Two Oklahoma City police officers were patrolling a secluded area not too far from the Will Rogers Airport.
1:49 Speaker 05 His little Bronco was just sitting in the lot for this place, and it didn't fit.
1:57 Speaker 01 Was someone in there? It was hard to see. Frost clung stubbornly to the vehicle's windows, obscuring the inside, as if nature itself sought to shield the horrors within. As the officers approached the Bronco, the cold air felt heavier, almost suffocating. One officer gripped the passenger door handle, pulling hesitantly.
2:20 Speaker 01 It was locked, left with no choice but to pry it open.
2:27 Speaker 01 Inside, the scene was chilling beyond the winter's cold. A partially decomposed body of a man in his prime wedged between the front seats, his head face down on the back floorboard. He was young, 30-something. His lifeless form seemed to have been abandoned in a final grotesque tableau.
2:49 Speaker 01 Retired homicide detective Kyle Estridge recalls the scene. His state of decomposition and his clothes were the first clues. Bermuda shorts and a light sweater? This was winter in Oklahoma City, and tonight? The temperature was below freezing.
3:06 Speaker 05 Oklahoma City was very cold. It starts making you think this guy's probably from somewhere else.
3:16 Speaker 01 And it looked like someone else had last driven the Bronco.
3:20 Speaker 05 He was a tall guy. And the driver's seat was skewed enough for someone real short to drive it.
3:31 Speaker 01 The officers ran the license plate. The car belonged to Norman Allen Rarig. He was 30 and lived in Dallas, Texas, about 200 miles away.
3:41 Speaker 06 The police rapidly concluded this guy was probably killed in Dallas.
3:48 Speaker 01 Then the next clues. There was no weapon at the scene, no wallet, and here's the strangest part: no car keys.
3:57 Speaker 05 From the initial scene, I think it was pretty apparent that he came from somewhere aways, and that he'd been dumped there and staged to look like that.
4:11 Speaker 01 Was this a robbery gone wrong? Still, something wasn't tracking. If he'd been robbed in Dallas...
4:18 Speaker 06 Why would the culprit bother pushing him out of the driver's seat and then driving his dead body all the way to Oklahoma City?
4:30 Speaker 01 He had two gunshot wounds from a .38 caliber pistol. One to the head, precise and deliberate. And the other to the body, leaving no doubt about the brutality of the crime. The faint odor of death intermingled with the frozen air. The officers exchanged knowing looks. This, they knew, was murder. But how this man was killed was something they wouldn't know for a long time. And the victim himself, wedged between the seats of his car in a parking lot in Oklahoma in the dead of winter, had no idea of the danger he was in moments before he died.
5:12 Speaker 01 Alan Reherig was the kind of tall, broad-shouldered man that made people do a double take. An athlete, a hometown hero, the kind of man who would have aged gracefully, chiseled even in middle age, were he not face down on the back floorboard, his life ended. He hadn't fully appreciated that someone had it out for him, that someone wanted him dead.
5:41 Speaker 01 From Sony Music Entertainment, this is Fatal Beauty. I'm Cooper Mall. Episode One, The Body and the Bronco.
5:55 Speaker 01 In all the millions of minutes that have gone by since his body was discovered that frigid December night, not a single one has passed that his mother hasn't thought of him, who he was, who he could have been. For decades, she's spoken out, told anyone who would listen, and kept Alan's name alive. That's what first struck me about this story. Her refusal to let her son be forgotten, her doggedness for the answers. In a way, I believe this is what's kept her going. But now she's 95, and she's faced a lot of disappointment and countless dead ends. She deserves a break from her quest for the truth, to spend the remainder of her golden years with her 12 great-grandchildren.
6:39 Speaker 01 I wanted her to pass the baton to me and let me help her get closer to the truth.
6:45 Speaker 07 My name is Gloria Reherig, R-E-H-R-I-G-E. Nobody ever knows how to spell that.
6:56 Speaker 01 Today Gloria is almost 100 and is still sharp as a tack. She's got gray blonde hair and striking blue eyes. Her face carries the gentle lines of age, adding depth to her dignified appearance. She lives at the Bradford Village Healthcare Center, a community for senior citizens in Edmond, Oklahoma, the same town she's lived for the last 50 years. It's where she's raised her blended family, too.
7:19 Speaker 07 I married a man who had three children, but I had two boys. Philip was my oldest and he was more serious. Al was my youngest and he had a lot of personality and everyone loved him.
7:38 Speaker 01 Two towering redheads who went on to set scoring records for Edmond Memorial High School's basketball team, the Bulldogs. But of the two, Alan was the standout athlete. He was a football player, too, but his balling skills are what landed him a scholarship to Oklahoma State University.
7:55 Speaker 07 He played basketball there for four years and he loved every bit of that.
8:02 Speaker 01 Growing up, Alan had dreamt of becoming a professional athlete. He seemed like the kind of kid who saw his future in his physical talents. But as his twenties droned on, he had to pivot and get a job like the rest of us.
8:14 Speaker 07 And his friend that he knew in college, Phil Askew, had a commercial business real estate and he invited Al to come and work for him. And that's how he ended up in Dallas. And that's where he met Sandra.
8:38 Speaker 01 The last time Gloria spoke with Alan, his wife Sandra happened to be the topic of conversation. They'd been married just shy of a year when Gloria caught wind that their marriage was on the rocks.
8:49 Speaker 07 His friend, Ron Barnes, at church told me that he had moved into Phil Askew's house and they were separated. And that's the first I knew about it. And then on Monday evening, I called him and that was our last conversation.
9:08 Speaker 01 The newlyweds had been living apart for a month. When Gloria pressed Alan about what was behind the separation, he was vague.
9:15 Speaker 07 He says that things were not as they're supposed to be.
9:20 Speaker 01 What did that mean?
9:23 Speaker 01 On the other end of the line, Gloria sensed a cautiousness in her son's voice in that special way only moms can. But she wasn't worried.
9:31 Speaker 07 He said he didn't want anything negative said because if they got back together, he wanted people to be nice to her.
9:40 Speaker 01 In other words, Alan didn't think this separation was the end of the line.
9:44 Speaker 07 He was still hopeful at that point, since they might get back together. But that's how he was.
9:52 Speaker 01 That glimmer of hope was fanned when the next day Alan heard from Sandra. Here's his mother again.
9:58 Speaker 07 She called him to ask him to meet her at this storage unit. It was his storage unit when he first moved down there. And she had put some things in there of hers. And she told him she needed to go to the storage unit and needed him to help look for something and move things around for her.
10:19 Speaker 01 The two planned to meet at the mini-storage facility in nearby Garland on Saturday, the eve of their first wedding anniversary. For Alan, the timing was auspicious. Could this be an opportunity for them to rekindle? Stranger things have happened. That Saturday was unusually warm for December in Dallas, so mild that when Alan left his temporary residence, his pal Phil Askew's home, he was wearing Bermuda shorts, a T-shirt, and a light sweater on top. Lugging boxes in a musty storage unit was bound to break a sweat. That was around 4:50 PM. Alan didn't anticipate staying at the storage unit with Sandra for long. He had dinner plans that night with Phil. But Alan didn't make it back for their meal.
11:04 Speaker 07 She called Phil Askew about two hours later and said he never showed up.
11:11 Speaker 01 According to Sandra, she never saw Alan. Phil was baffled. Alan was a stand-up friend, reliable, courteous. If he got tangled up in some other plan, he would have let his buddies know. Not this time.
11:28 Speaker 01 I'm not a parent, but I know when my mom doesn't hear from me, an adult, she still worries. It's hard to let go. And Alan had just set out on his own, just 18 months before, when Gloria got devastating news.
11:44 Speaker 07 I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for a meeting of education counselors. And my niece Cynthia came to the door of our meeting place. She came to tell me that Al was missing.
12:04 Speaker 01 And on the ground in Dallas, the rumor mill was already churning.
12:09 Speaker 07 Everybody thought that Sandra had something to do with it.
12:13 Speaker 01 Gloria wasn't enamored with her son's new bride, but she didn't think for a minute that she would have anything to do with his disappearance.
12:21 Speaker 07 It just shocked me. And I said, oh, surely not. So that's where my journey started.
12:28 Speaker 01 What did everyone else seem to already know about Alan's wife that Gloria didn't? Why were the town gossips talking about Sandra behind her back? Why her? What has she done?
12:44 Speaker 01 It had been roughly 24 hours since Alan's disappearance. The sun was setting on Sunday, December 8th, with no sign of him. And here's what was strange. His wife still hadn't filed a missing persons report.
12:57 Speaker 07 Phillip, my other son, called her and said she needed to report it and declare him a missing person. And she said, well, you can do it. And she never did.
13:10 Speaker 01 Why hadn't she reported him gone? Sure, the two were separated, but how do you just not tell the cops that your spouse vanished?
13:17 Speaker 07 Of course, then Phil asked you, verified that he hadn't shown up for work that Monday.
13:25 Speaker 01 Law enforcement in Dallas was now on the case. Back in Oklahoma, Gloria's pacing around her home feeling helpless. So she did all she knew to do.
13:34 Speaker 07 I called the detectives in Dallas and asked Sergeant Murdock. I explained to him who I was and why I was calling and that my son was missing. And would he please go to their home?
13:50 Speaker 01 If she'd been in Dallas, she would have gone herself. Instead, she had someone else go do kind of a wellness check. Gloria had already been in touch with friends of Alan and Sandra, who assuaged some of her anxiety.
14:02 Speaker 07 Everybody that knew Sandra down in Dallas, when they heard that he was missing, they said, well, fortunately, we think he's still alive.
14:14 Speaker 01 She hoped the local detectives could confirm he was all right.
14:18 Speaker 07 And I gave them her address. I said, their garages are on their alleys behind their houses. And I said, in my mind, I can just see that his car might be parked back there. And would you please go and see what you can find out? And he said, yes. And then he called me back and he said, she was very gracious and showed him in the house and showed him in the garage and all.
14:47 Speaker 01 But still no Alan. And that graciousness Sandra extended to the detectives didn't exactly reach Gloria.
14:54 Speaker 07 But then she railed at me for suggesting, you know, that she had something to do with it.
15:03 Speaker 01 Sandra was pissed. How dare her mother-in-law point the finger at her? That wasn't what Gloria intended to get at, at all. She wasn't suspicious of Sandra. But this confrontation planted a seed, one that quickly grew into something dark and unsettling. Gloria's mind flashed back to a conversation she'd had with Sandra, not long after she and Alan tied the knot.
15:31 Speaker 07 After they got married, then she started having him get insurance policy. And then she asked me if I didn't think he should do that. And I said, of course, a man with a family should have insurance.
15:48 Speaker 01 At the time, it had seemed like a practical, even responsible, next step in building a life together. But now, it felt like something else entirely. Part of a plan.
16:01 Speaker 01 Because if something happened to Alan, it turned out Sandra stood to cash in.
16:09 Speaker 01 I wanted to know just how much Sandra would get. So I called up investigative reporter John Leek, who's long been enmeshed in this story.
16:17 Speaker 06 She added a life insurance policy with a $220,000 death benefit. And that was a lot of money in 1985.
16:26 Speaker 01 Sounds like a lot of money to me now, too, but that's not the point. Could Sandra have been out for Alan's money? Lori entertained the thought, but didn't dwell on it. But get this. On the same day that things came to a head with her mother-in-law, Sandra did something curious.
16:43 Speaker 07 Sandra hires a private investigator who's very well-known in Texas, Bill Dear.
16:49 Speaker 01 That's Glenna Whitley, a veteran investigative reporter in Dallas, who took a special interest in Sandra back in the day. So the private eye Sandra hired, Bill Dear, he had a reputation for taking on strange cases. And when he took high-profile cases, he had an unconventional approach, like the exhumation of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1981. The guy went on to do things like investigate aliens, run for Texas governor, and write a book on how he could prove O.J. Simpson's innocence. He was both eccentric and controversial. Anyway, this is who Sandra retained that Monday after her husband had officially been reported missing. Here's Whitley again.
17:29 Speaker 07 She tells Bill, I didn't do this. I want you to find out who really did this.
17:35 Speaker 01 Did what? At this point, Alan had been gone not even 48 hours. It was concerning, but he wasn't a child. Alan might have decided to leave town, blow off some steam. It was the early 80s. We weren't updating our friends with our every move. No one knew Alan was dead in his Bronco yet. So why was Sandra asking a private investigator to build her defense at this point? In her initial meeting with William Dear, she spun a yarn about her husband.
18:04 Speaker 07 And talked to him about all the allegedly crazy things that Alan was involved with, like drugs and gambling, et cetera, et cetera.
18:16 Speaker 01 It sounded like Sandra was insinuating Alan kept some shady company, the kind of criminals who knew how to make people disappear. A wife often knows what her husband's gotten up to, even if strangers don't. Sandra probably knew Alan like no one else. Or was she covering her tracks? When someone goes missing, you try not to think the worst. But eventually, there's a knock at the door. The answer came for Gloria at the crack of dawn on December 12, 1985.
18:45 Speaker 02 It was like 6 o'clock in the morning. My sister and Ron Barnes and his wife, and my minister and his wife came into my house.
18:59 Speaker 01 Ron, one of Alan's best friends, was in her doorway, along with some of Gloria's nearest and dearest. Their faces were stricken with sorrow.
19:09 Speaker 02 And they said, they had found Alan. And I said, was he all right? And they said, no. And I just went to pieces. I couldn't believe it. It was just awful.
19:24 Speaker 01 Alan was discovered, partially decomposed, four days after he'd last been seen. When the Oklahoma City Patrol Officers found him between the front seats of his Bronco and traced the registration back to Norman "Alan" Rarig, they phoned the Dallas PD, wondering if a man by that name had been reported missing. Thank God, someone had filed a report. But Alan didn't have an ID on him. Someone could have stolen his car. Detectives still couldn't be 100% sure that the dead man was him. Why they didn't fingerprint the body and try to figure out his identity that way isn't clear.
20:06 Speaker 01 The Dallas officer had to get creative, so he called up Alan's next of kin, Sandra.
20:12 Speaker 02 And they asked her, "Did he have on such and such?" And she said, "Yes." Said, "The last time you saw him, did he have on Bermuda shorts?" And she said, "Yes."
20:26 Speaker 01 That's what he was found wearing in Oklahoma City. It was Alan. It was time to break the news. But before the officer could get a word in, Sandra stopped him.
20:36 Speaker 02 "Is it bad news?" And they said, "Yes." And said, "Well, then, call Ron Barnes." And she hung up.
20:43 Speaker 01 Ron Barnes was one of Alan's oldest pals in Edmond. The police obliged Sandra's request. They figured she'd prefer hearing the horrifying details from a loved one rather than a complete stranger. By morning, the news of Alan's death hadn't just reached Gloria, but his neighbors in Dallas, too. Then, the phone rang at the police department in Oklahoma City.
21:06 Speaker 07 An anonymous person, who police called "deep-throat," called the Oklahoma Police.
21:16 Speaker 01 Not that deep-throat, another informant. Turns out, this woman said Sandra had a reputation that preceded her. There was more to this striking brunette than it might seem. In fact, it was an open secret in her little corner of Dallas that she was trouble, dangerous even. Get too close, and your days might be numbered.
21:44 Speaker 06 Sandra became heavily ostracized already in 1982. And Alan Rarick, her third husband, was not aware of this because he'd only just moved to Dallas from Oklahoma the day before he met her.
22:00 Speaker 01 They'd gotten together quickly after a chance meeting.
22:03 Speaker 06 So he was not aware of her ostracism. But by the time Alan turns up shot, most of the community was frightened of her.
22:14 Speaker 01 The cops in Oklahoma City didn't know how seriously to take this anonymous caller. One thing was sure, they needed to get Sandra in for questioning.
22:22 Speaker 07 They had contacted Sandra and told her that when she came up to the funeral, they wanted to talk to her.
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23:35 Speaker 07 We decided that Saturday would be a good time to have the funeral.
23:40 Speaker 01 So that Friday, Sandra packed a bag and made her way to Oklahoma City.
23:44 Speaker 07 She flew up and Ron met her and took her to the police department. And that's when she met Pacheco and Mitchell.
23:54 Speaker 01 Sandra wasn't alone when she met with detectives Steve Pacheco and Ron Mitchell.
23:58 Speaker 07 She had a lawyer when she came to Oklahoma City to his funeral in case they arrested her.
24:07 Speaker 01 And this wasn't just any lawyer. Sandra came with one of Dallas's most notorious criminal defense attorneys at the time, Vincent Perini. The widow made quite the impression. Here's Whitley again. She goes in full regalia with her widows.
24:23 Speaker 07 Fur coat and her gloves, never takes her gloves off.
24:27 Speaker 01 She's something out of a Tennessee Williams play. Part smoldering beauty, part troubled soul.
24:34 Speaker 07 She plays the poor little me. She plays the, isn't this awful officer? It's just so tragic and bats her eyes and plays damsel in distress. And they're looking at her going, huh? I'm not so sure about the damsel in distress, but that made them even more suspicious, of course, because they've gotten some prior knowledge.
24:59 Speaker 01 But the detectives never brought up any of what they had been told about her past in Dallas. They kept the interview to the circumstances leading up to Alan's death. What kind of stuff he was up to, what kind of people he hung around.
25:10 Speaker 06 She said, I think he was involved in gambling debts. I think he might have owed a bookie money. And she said, I think he was dabbling in cocaine. And so she dangles out all of this incriminating stuff about how he was hanging around with dangerous men.
25:31 Speaker 01 Sounds a lot like what she told her P I. Then there was the question, how in the hell Alan, a man living in Dallas, got to Oklahoma City? Sandra had an answer for that.
25:42 Speaker 06 Sandra said to the Oklahoma City Police, you know, I think that Alan was involved in cocaine and that his old high school and college chump who lived in Edmund was his dealer.
25:57 Speaker 01 But Alan was found in Oklahoma City, not Edmund, roughly 20 miles away.
26:02 Speaker 06 The police did not perceive that as plausible at all.
26:06 Speaker 01 It looked like she was trying to offer a red herring. And then they caught Sandra in a lie. When Dallas P D called to identify Alan the night he was found, Sandra confirmed she'd last seen him in the Bermuda shorts and the blue sweater, what he'd been wearing when he left to meet her at the storage unit. But the Oklahoma City detectives already knew she'd told one of Alan's friends the opposite.
26:29 Speaker 07 When she called Phil Askew, she said, he didn't show up. I haven't seen him. So she had seen him. She had seen him.
26:40 Speaker 01 The cops had caught her lying. Maybe she didn't expect them to hear about her call to Phil. Maybe she didn't grasp just how damning it was to be the last person who'd seen Alan. Is that why she let it slip up to police? Panic or miscalculation? That lie didn't do her any favors. But she didn't say anything that day incriminating enough to pin her down.
27:03 Speaker 07 And they didn't have any new evidence, so that was the end of that meeting.
27:09 Speaker 01 Sandra was let go to prepare for Alan's funeral the next day. But detectives made her promise to return before going home to Dallas. They wanted to pick up the interrogation where they'd left off. Then there was the funeral. On the morning of December 14th, nearly 400 people gathered in Edmond to pay their respects to a hometown hero. The once-promising athlete, friend to everyone, loving brother, doting son, Alan Rarig.
27:37 Speaker 07 Of course, she was late getting to the funeral.
27:41 Speaker 01 She could have been on time had she opted to ride with the rest of the Rarig family to the First Christian Church, but she insisted on arriving separately.
27:49 Speaker 07 We were all sitting there waiting, and she comes parading in in a full-length mink coat. And of course, they had everybody down the aisle because she was the wife.
28:03 Speaker 01 Sandra was acting off.
28:06 Speaker 07 She was distant when she got here.
28:10 Speaker 01 And she didn't have the means to pay for the proceedings.
28:13 Speaker 07 She never carried a purse, or a checkbook, or a credit card. So when it came time for the cemetery to open the grave, they wouldn't do anything until she paid for something. Well, she didn't pay for nothing, and Ron had to pay for that.
28:32 Speaker 01 This tragic day was about to get more uncomfortable for everyone, but especially Gloria. Sandra made a spectacle of herself in front of the very detectives that interviewed her just the day before. They were in attendance, too.
28:48 Speaker 07 And she sat down at the table with detectives, Pacheco and Mitchell, and she said, "Don't you find me attractive?"
28:57 Speaker 01 Can you imagine? Not only a widow behaving this way mere days after the death of her husband, but in front of his mother at her son's funeral?
29:08 Speaker 07 You know, how can you be that chalice?
29:12 Speaker 01 And by the time Alan was laid to rest at Memorial Park Cemetery, I'd imagine most of those 400 people who came to pay the respects were curious about his mysterious widow. But she didn't give anyone in attendance that day much time to figure her out. As soon as the funeral ended, Sandra hopped on a plane.
29:30 Speaker 07 And went right back to Dallas.
29:34 Speaker 01 She never returned to speak with the Oklahoma City detectives again. And flying home, she hardly behaved.
29:42 Speaker 07 Friends of ours that had come up from Dallas on that plane and went back, they said she was flirting with men up and down the aisle going back to Dallas. And that's just how she acted.
29:59 Speaker 01 Something's just so unsettling here. By now, Gloria was miles past embarrassment. She had left behind the benefit of the doubt she'd given Alan's wife, too. Gloria started to suspect Sandra. Gloria begins to get a sense that there's something terribly wrong with Sandra. She starts to hear from people who tell her these other stories, which she has never heard before. In the days after Alan was put to rest, her phone kept on ringing.
30:29 Speaker 07 I got a phone call from a lady in Allen Park, and she started telling me that they had feared for his life when she started dating him. Then, when he was killed, they all got together and said, "Well, we're not surprised."
30:48 Speaker 01 What did she mean? Not surprised?
30:52 Speaker 07 That's when they started telling me about her. And I was just stunned.
31:00 Speaker 01 The woman on the phone revealed that in Dallas, Sandra was known as the Black Widow. She had a habit of destroying the men who fell for her. She'd leach them dry. And if they tried to leave her, things would turn ugly. In fact, Alan wasn't the first husband of Sandra's, who had died under mysterious circumstances. If Alan and Sandra's marriage had been on the rocks, Gloria thought, that could only mean one thing.
31:33 Speaker 07 We suspected that she was the culprit and that she definitely had known where he was. And what happened to him? She did this.
31:54 Speaker 01 On the next episode of Fatal Beauty, we go back to Dallas, where Sandra used her devilish charm to land husbands and get what she wanted. As people close to her died, one after the other, Sandra managed to remain free.
32:10 Speaker 07 At the time, it was ruled a suicide. They assumed that the police know what they're doing. And most people felt extreme sympathy for her.
32:21 Speaker 06 Multiple persons who were privy to these events or very close to what was going on in real time, they just chose to remain silent about it.
32:31 Speaker 07 Sandra is the last person to see her alive. She was either the Black Widow or bad luck. I don't know which.
32:43 Speaker 01 In 2002, Ryan Wedding was an Olympic snowboarder at the top of his game.
32:48 Speaker 03 Ryan's style is really gunning it in gold.
32:51 Speaker 01 And in less than a minute, it slipped away. But he continued to chase the high.
32:56 Speaker 04 Ryan James Wedding. He controls one of the most violent drug trafficking organizations in this world.
33:06 Speaker 01 I'm Michelle Shepherd. And from CBC Podcasts and The Toronto Star, The Most Wanted Olympian. Available now.
33:17 Speaker 01 Fatal Beauty is an original production of Sony Music Entertainment. It was hosted and reported by me, Cooper Mall. Catherine St. Louis is our story editor. Jonathan Hirsch is our executive producer. Sound design and mixing by Josh Hahn. We use music from APM and Epidemic Sound. Our associate producer is Zoe Colkin. Our fact checker is Naomi Barr. Our production managers are Sammy Allison and Tamika Balance-Kolosny. Our lawyer is Rachel Goldberg. Special thanks to Steve Ackerman, Emily Rozick, Jamie Myers, Eric Miller, Skip Hollensworth, and Glenna Whitley, whose reporting for D Magazine and The Dallas Observer is an essential piece of the story of Sandra Bridewell. If you'd like to read more about Sandra's life,
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