Speaker 1: Falling in love is the best feeling in the world.
Speaker 1: You see stars, you feel giddy, But sometimes that makes
Speaker 1: you do crazy things, and sometimes that means murder. Just
Speaker 1: because the story starts out with once upon a Times
Speaker 1: doesn't mean it ends happily ever after. Welcome to Crazy
Speaker 1: and Love, a production of Katie Studios and I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Today's guests are true crime producers Stephanie Leidecker and Jeff
Speaker 1: Shane Episode forty seven The Case of the Eye Drops,
Speaker 1: the Staircase, and the Copycat Killer. Steve Clayton was always
Speaker 1: looking for more. Growing up in Florida. He dealt with
Speaker 1: childhood hardships, but was committed to making something of himself.
Speaker 1: Steve worked his way through college as a construction laborer.
Speaker 1: After graduating, he became a well respected accountant in North Carolina, NA.
Speaker 1: But Steve had bigger aspirations for his life. He had
Speaker 1: an idea for a business in the nineteen eighties and
Speaker 1: ended up quitting his job and creating a highly successful
Speaker 1: physical therapy business that targeted sports therapy. Described as a
Speaker 1: visionary and a brilliant business strategist who had a passion
Speaker 1: for learning and critical thinking, Steve's idea took off, and
Speaker 1: he was able to retire in nine at the age
Speaker 1: of forty. And yet through all the success, Steve still
Speaker 1: wanted more. He vowed to travel the world learning more
Speaker 1: about wine, music, and art, three things he was passionate about.
Speaker 1: He also avowed to think of new business ideas that
Speaker 1: would help better people's lives in Everything changed when he
Speaker 1: met a woman named Lana online, a nurse by trade.
Speaker 1: Lana was sweet and caring. For once in his life,
Speaker 1: Steve didn't want anything else with Lana. He had it all.
Speaker 1: Three years after meeting, the couple got married and built
Speaker 1: a life together. They moved from North to South Carolina
Speaker 1: into a palatial waterfront mansion. It came to be known
Speaker 1: as the Clayton Estate. Built on the shore of Lake Wiley,
Speaker 1: the home boasted expansive views, a chef's kitchen, and a
Speaker 1: grand staircase. The home was modeled after President Washington's famed
Speaker 1: Mount Vernon estate, and the Clayton's made good use of
Speaker 1: the property. Stephen Laana were known to host lavish parties
Speaker 1: with friends and family. The home was described as full,
Speaker 1: the kind you were always welcome at and wanted to
Speaker 1: be in. Here's Jeff While Steve was independently wealthy and
Speaker 1: retired because of his physical therapy business, Laana was a
Speaker 1: hard working nurse. She was working at the Department of
Speaker 1: Veterans Affairs in Charlotte when she met Steve. After the
Speaker 1: couple moved from South to North Carolina, she continued to
Speaker 1: work at the Veterans Hospital and commuted about forty minutes
Speaker 1: each way. Steve family was actually really excited that she
Speaker 1: was a nurse because he was a bit of a
Speaker 1: bigger guy and not necessarily in the shape, and so
Speaker 1: they felt good that he was with someone who was
Speaker 1: a medical professional and should something happen to him or
Speaker 1: he was in any sort of medical crisis, Lana would
Speaker 1: be able to take really good care of him. And
Speaker 1: while Lana had been married once before, her close friends
Speaker 1: said that she really didn't seem anything but happy when
Speaker 1: they met. We're looking at this photograph. They looked so
Speaker 1: warm and comfortable together. He's very tall, wearing a white shirt.
Speaker 1: She's leaning in. She's a brunette also with her hair
Speaker 1: up and long pretty earrings, and they look very at
Speaker 1: ease together. Yestef. We'll actually post this picture on our
Speaker 1: Instagram at Katie Underscore Studios. Stephen was described as magnanimous.
Speaker 1: He had a huge personality, and not only did he
Speaker 1: have a really close circle of friends, but he also
Speaker 1: had a very long relationship history. He had been married
Speaker 1: six or seven times, so many times that his family
Speaker 1: members say they lost count, but they would say that lovingly.
Speaker 1: And despite being a serial groom, it seemed that Steve
Speaker 1: just really loved being in love and Launa to him,
Speaker 1: was his perfect match at last. She was head over
Speaker 1: heels in love with him and it was mutual. She
Speaker 1: was known to apparently kiss him on the forehead and
Speaker 1: often said she loved him. On July, the couple hosted
Speaker 1: an epic Fourth of July bash. At the party, as
Speaker 1: their loved ones watched, Stephen Laanna danced in the grass.
Speaker 1: The night ended in fireworks, but the real show would
Speaker 1: come just a few weeks later. On July, Laana was
Speaker 1: seen running out of the house desperately waving for help.
Speaker 1: She flagged down a neighbor and in a breathless panic,
Speaker 1: managed to tell them her husband had fallen down the stairs.
Speaker 1: Laana pleaded for the neighbor to call nine on one.
Speaker 1: When first responders arrived, they found sixty four year old
Speaker 1: Steve Clayton dead at the bottom of the Holmes Grand staircase.
Speaker 1: Over him was Laanna sobbing. The immediate aftermath was caught
Speaker 1: on police body amps. Take a listen, God, I have
Speaker 1: a guilt not checking any sounds of your following or anything.
Speaker 1: Pretty much pretty much there's oh no, not at all.
Speaker 1: As you can hear, Lana's neighbor is explaining to the
Speaker 1: police that she was feeling immediate guilt about her husband's death.
Speaker 1: I mean, she was a nurse and his wife, so
Speaker 1: I would imagine she would be feeling pretty badly about
Speaker 1: not having taken care of him or allowing him to
Speaker 1: somehow get in the state that he was in. As
Speaker 1: you remember, Steve's family liked that he married a nurse
Speaker 1: because it meant he would be taken care of. But
Speaker 1: sometimes we can only do so much. When the police
Speaker 1: began to get more information, it seems that Steve had
Speaker 1: been sick before his death. According to Lana, he had
Speaker 1: come down with vertigo three days before falling down the stairs.
Speaker 1: Vertigo is the sensation that you or the environment around
Speaker 1: you are moving or spinning. It can be very story
Speaker 1: thing and really an awful thing. To deal with. Steve
Speaker 1: had also been dealing with severe nausea, which is a
Speaker 1: common symptom of vertigo. When the detectives looked around the house,
Speaker 1: the primary bedroom, which was located on the second floor,
Speaker 1: was a complete mess. The bed was covered in urine
Speaker 1: and sweat. It was clear that Steve had been severely bedridden.
Speaker 1: Lana told police that she had checked on Steve that
Speaker 1: morning and he was sound asleep, so, as usual, she
Speaker 1: made sure he had his water and his medications, and
Speaker 1: then she went outside to do some yardwork. When she
Speaker 1: came back inside from doing a yard work, she found
Speaker 1: him at the bottom of the stairs. That's when she
Speaker 1: ran outside and fled down the neighbor. As the police
Speaker 1: began to piece together what happened, Lana was just beside herself.
Speaker 1: She had asked police to pray over Steve's body, and
Speaker 1: it seemed like she was blaming herself for his death.
Speaker 1: The police ended up ruling Steve's cause of death as
Speaker 1: a heart attack, and the whole thing looked like a
Speaker 1: tragic accident and there was nothing suspicious about it. A
Speaker 1: few days later, Laana held the funeral for Steve in
Speaker 1: the homes by yard friends and family gathered to remember
Speaker 1: the larger than life man who was gone far too soon.
Speaker 1: Steve's family made a public statement that read, the family
Speaker 1: is shocked and mortified at the cause of Steven's death.
Speaker 1: All of our family and friends know how much he
Speaker 1: loved his wife, Laana and how devoted he was to her.
Speaker 1: We are all still trying to process this, and while
Speaker 1: publicly Steve's family was very supportive about Lana, behind closed doors,
Speaker 1: they're definitely were some loving questions. First of all, why
Speaker 1: didn't Launa call nine one one herself? There were at
Speaker 1: least two phones in the house, and yet she ran
Speaker 1: down the street, wasting maybe what could have been very
Speaker 1: valuable time. Obviously, this is a tragic situation, so none
Speaker 1: of us really know how we would behave in this situation.
Speaker 1: But she was also a trained nurse. Another phone related
Speaker 1: mystery was Steve's cell phone. No one could find it,
Speaker 1: and he was known to always be that kind of
Speaker 1: a person who was near their phone, but when police
Speaker 1: searched for it, they even couldn't locate it. And remember,
Speaker 1: and it was a nurse, so why didn't she perform
Speaker 1: CPR and attempt any life saving procedures? One last thing
Speaker 1: also that didn't sit well with Steve's family. Days after
Speaker 1: his death, when the police asked Lana what her plans
Speaker 1: were for his burial, she balked at them and said,
Speaker 1: I'm in crisis right now. I can't be asked these
Speaker 1: questions and she had no idea. However, when the cops
Speaker 1: said that they wanted to test Steve's body back at
Speaker 1: the lab, she seemed to suddenly have a really big
Speaker 1: plan in her mind and decided right then and there
Speaker 1: that she wanted to have her husband's body cremated. That's
Speaker 1: a big deal because once cremated, there's really no way
Speaker 1: to test for clues. A possible explanation for lana sudden
Speaker 1: flip flop was what she told Steve's family. According to her,
Speaker 1: Steve had a dark secret. She said that Steve was
Speaker 1: a hard drug user and that would explain why she
Speaker 1: didn't want an autopsy. His family was shocked, as they
Speaker 1: had never known him to use any sort of drug
Speaker 1: and were completely so prize that she was bringing it
Speaker 1: up now after his death. It also seemed that that
Speaker 1: once loving marriage might not have been as happy as
Speaker 1: it appeared. According to a friend, two months before he
Speaker 1: was found dead at the bottom of the stairs. Steve
Speaker 1: had been saying that he and Lana's relationship was kind
Speaker 1: of in trouble. He apparently said he wasn't happy with
Speaker 1: Lana and everything he thought was true was not. Back
Speaker 1: to after Steve's death, as Lana was working with his
Speaker 1: nephew Chris to figure out the estate, Chris told Laana
Speaker 1: that they needed to go over his will to make
Speaker 1: sure it was all being handled properly, and Lana's response
Speaker 1: surprised him. She very firmly told Chris that there was
Speaker 1: in fact no will, but Chris, the nephew, was adamant
Speaker 1: that he had seen the will and that she was wrong,
Speaker 1: but at this point, what could he do, and the
Speaker 1: family at this point is suspicious. They actually came together
Speaker 1: and went behind Lana's back and demanded to have an autopsy.
Speaker 1: While usually a coroner would list into the next of kin,
Speaker 1: in this case that would be Lana, who actually, as
Speaker 1: you know, declined in autopsy, the medical examiner decided to
Speaker 1: go ahead and perform one anyway, and it was a
Speaker 1: really close call. The cremation was scheduled for the following day,
Speaker 1: but they were able to get in just in time.
Speaker 1: We're going to take a break. We'll be back in
Speaker 1: just a moment. As the officials awaited the toxicology report,
Speaker 1: they uncovered an incident from two years prior in that
Speaker 1: couldn't be ignored. On this night, while Steve was sleeping,
Speaker 1: Lana shot him in the back of the head with
Speaker 1: a crossbow. She told detectives she had been trying to
Speaker 1: load across bow but was having difficulty with it, so
Speaker 1: she went upstairs to find and her husband, Steve, and
Speaker 1: the machine quote accidentally went off. Steve backed up her story,
Speaker 1: so nothing came out of the incident, but now with
Speaker 1: Steve dead, the crossbow incident couldn't be ignored. Meanwhile, the
Speaker 1: toxicology report came back. There was no drug use like
Speaker 1: Lana had predicted, but there were high levels of tetra
Speaker 1: hydrolazine enough to be fatal. But what was the mystery
Speaker 1: poison from eye drops? Here's Jeff. Tetra Hydrolazine, also known
Speaker 1: as t Z, is the main ingredient advising yes I drops.
Speaker 1: In the medical community. Th HD is known as a mickey.
Speaker 1: It's colorless, odorless, and tasteless. It can easily be put
Speaker 1: in someone's food or drink and cause them to become incapacitative.
Speaker 1: Medical experts have said it could be used for robbery
Speaker 1: or sexual assault. Using eye drops as poison has been
Speaker 1: seen in shows and movies like C s I and
Speaker 1: wedding crashers. In Steve's case, he had such a large
Speaker 1: amount in his system that it actually killed him, which
Speaker 1: is impossible to imagine, and detectives wondered at this point
Speaker 1: if Steve maybe killed himself. So they brought in Lana
Speaker 1: and they wanted to interview her, hopefully to get some
Speaker 1: more insight. The police watched and recorded the meeting that
Speaker 1: she had with the coroner. Somebody wants to tell him,
Speaker 1: go back room and like two drops in his coffee
Speaker 1: and how long have you been doing that for? This
Speaker 1: is nuts. Lana told the corner that to have a
Speaker 1: proper bowel movement, Steve would put eye drops in his
Speaker 1: coffee like it was some sort of laxative. I have
Speaker 1: never heard of anyone doing this. It's also hard to
Speaker 1: believe that as a nurse she would approve of this behavior.
Speaker 1: But that wasn't the strangest part of her interview. The
Speaker 1: um there's a drug called tech or hydral thing. It's
Speaker 1: surprising that she would immediately know what THHC was. Sure,
Speaker 1: she's a nurse, but this is a very obscure chemical,
Speaker 1: so obscure that the emmy on the case had to
Speaker 1: look it up themselves. How would you have known what
Speaker 1: it was so quickly? At this point, the cops came
Speaker 1: into the interrogation. Someoney, technically, will kind of share your office?
Speaker 1: Overweight on? Yes, ma'am. Now listen, you are by no
Speaker 1: means in trouble. You want to ask you something we
Speaker 1: have to read on right right? Everybody? Okay? Did you
Speaker 1: have to write for myself? Right now? The dead is suspicious?
Speaker 1: In man? Everybody keeps asking me you know about the coffee?
Speaker 1: And I know they're wanting to know about the vising.
Speaker 1: There's only two people in the house. It was you
Speaker 1: and him. I know you have always had to mind.
Speaker 1: Do you have any that day? I don't know. You're
Speaker 1: in the nursing business, though, wouldn't you know the effects
Speaker 1: of it? Sure? I didn't think vising was anything that
Speaker 1: would be serious to your to your health. It makes
Speaker 1: sense that the cops are pressing her about this wild
Speaker 1: statement because it really doesn't add up. So what happened next?
Speaker 1: Lana then throughout a whole new story. She began saying
Speaker 1: that Steve was physically abusive to her, and she accused
Speaker 1: him of having some sort of a mood disorder, and
Speaker 1: when the cops really pressed her, she immediately stopped the interview.
Speaker 1: The detectives ended up following her home and continued to
Speaker 1: talk to her back at the Clayton estate. Lana finally
Speaker 1: admitted that she had in fact slipped her husband the vising.
Speaker 1: The question remained, why would she do that to her husband?
Speaker 1: According to Lana, Steve was needy and demanding, constantly bossing
Speaker 1: her around. In about of anger, she squeezed an entire
Speaker 1: bottle of vizine into Steve's drink. She admitted that while
Speaker 1: she wanted him to suffer, she didn't intend to kill
Speaker 1: her husband. Through it all, Lana stuck to her battered
Speaker 1: wife story. She now said that the crossbowt incident wasn't
Speaker 1: in fact an accident at all, that she had shot
Speaker 1: Steve in self defense. It should be noted that no
Speaker 1: one could substantiate Laana's claims of abuse, and by all accounts,
Speaker 1: Steve was a gentle and kind man. We literally have
Speaker 1: heard nothing to the contrary. And after this big nighttime confession.
Speaker 1: After the nighttime confession, the cops left Lana at home
Speaker 1: and they went off to prepare and arrest warrant, and
Speaker 1: that night she actually attempted suicide. She tried swallowing pills
Speaker 1: and even turned on the gas. The next morning, on August,
Speaker 1: she was resuscitated, and once she was alert, she was
Speaker 1: charged with murder. The police's official theory was that this
Speaker 1: was no crime of passion or accident. They thought that
Speaker 1: Lana had been poisoning Steve for weeks. She started by
Speaker 1: slowly introducing the vising into his food or drinks, and
Speaker 1: then quickly ramped it up. This would explain why Steve
Speaker 1: was bedroom and remember, the room was a dirty mess.
Speaker 1: Didn't look like Laana had been taking very big care
Speaker 1: of him. The day he died, the cops believe that
Speaker 1: Steve had gotten some sort of rush of adrenaline and
Speaker 1: tried to escape. He made it to the bottom of
Speaker 1: the stairs, where he collapsed and tragically died. Think about
Speaker 1: the fact that no one ever found his cell phone.
Speaker 1: Detectives believe that Lana hit it to prevent him from
Speaker 1: calling for help. The details are just hard to hear,
Speaker 1: and the motive. Even worse is the one that is
Speaker 1: as old as time. Money. Steve had a ton of money, apparently,
Speaker 1: And it seemed like this murderous plan started all the
Speaker 1: way back in when Lana convinced Steve to move from
Speaker 1: his home in North Carolina to South Carolina. And get this,
Speaker 1: The reason for that is because in South Carolina, if
Speaker 1: someone dies without a will, their estate automatically goes to
Speaker 1: the spouse, which in this case, of course, was Laana.
Speaker 1: And remember Chris, the nephew. He was really confident and
Speaker 1: positive that he had seen Steve's will. And now we're
Speaker 1: finding out that a neighbor had also seen Lana having
Speaker 1: a bonfire in the backyard the day after Steve died.
Speaker 1: It's believed now that she was likely burning his will.
Speaker 1: But the story gets even stranger. It seemed like the
Speaker 1: story was coming to a close, but three weeks later,
Speaker 1: just twelve miles away, a woman was found dead. Like
Speaker 1: Steve Clayton, the woman died of THHC poisoning at thirty
Speaker 1: two years old. Stacy Hunts Sucker was a bright and
Speaker 1: bubbly mother of two. She and her husband were high
Speaker 1: school sweethearts, and Stacy worked as a preschool teacher and
Speaker 1: her husband was a paramedic and he worked in hospital planes.
Speaker 1: When Stacy died, it was initially ruled a heart attack,
Speaker 1: but when her husband, Josh collected two hundred fifty dollars
Speaker 1: in life insurance just two days after she passed, Stacy's
Speaker 1: mom reported insurance rod. The detectives on that case uncovered
Speaker 1: that he had started dating a coworker very soon after
Speaker 1: Stacy died. Following Stacy's death, Josh and had her cremated
Speaker 1: and there was no autopsy performed. Well, all, this didn't
Speaker 1: mean he was guilty of murder. It didn't make him
Speaker 1: look good. The insurance department called the cops, who then
Speaker 1: called the exact same detectives who worked on Steve's case. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the first thing they wanted to do was checked the body.
Speaker 1: It had also been cremated, so that was impossible. However,
Speaker 1: Luckily for investigators, Stacy was an organ downer and they
Speaker 1: still had some kind of a vial of her blood
Speaker 1: remaining at the medical labs. It was enough to test,
Speaker 1: and sure enough, it was the same ingredient THC, the
Speaker 1: chemical invisine that was used to kill Steve. In court,
Speaker 1: the prosecutor explained details about Stacy's death and Josh's involvement
Speaker 1: in September dating in this case is miss Stacy Hunsucker defendant.
Speaker 1: Why she suffered some sort of health issue at her
Speaker 1: home on that evening. She was taken to a local hospital,
Speaker 1: treated and eventually succumbed to that health issue. UM. Not
Speaker 1: much happening in the intervening a few weeks or even
Speaker 1: months investigation wise, but at some point it was determined
Speaker 1: at a a number of vials of blood were being
Speaker 1: held by a private company that handles tissue and organ
Speaker 1: donation that we're taken from the victim prior to her cremation.
Speaker 1: Agent Morgan and the medical examiner were able to get
Speaker 1: ahold of that blood have it tested, and it tested
Speaker 1: very high levels of tetra hydrozolene, which is one of
Speaker 1: the active ingredients in certain hye drop medicine that we
Speaker 1: used to clear your eyes. UM that we're told by
Speaker 1: our toxicologists and our cardiologists that that medicine has a
Speaker 1: dramatic effect on your heart, and we calls hartstoftage or
Speaker 1: heart failure in a fairly short amount of time, which
Speaker 1: is consistent with what happened here. We have probable calls
Speaker 1: that he is the one who poisoned miss Hunsucker with
Speaker 1: vizine or a similar product and calls her death and
Speaker 1: without saying too much, quite a bit of our information
Speaker 1: we got from him during his interview. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know that he would characterize it as a confession,
Speaker 1: but it certainly approached that level, your honor. There were
Speaker 1: so many similarities between these cases, the medical workers, spouse,
Speaker 1: the death ruled, the heart attack, the spouse pushing for
Speaker 1: cremation and no autopsy, money being the motive for possible murder.
Speaker 1: I wondered, at least who know each other? No, Actually,
Speaker 1: cops think that Josh he might have seen this report
Speaker 1: about Steve's death and decided to basically copycat that killing,
Speaker 1: but we don't know this for sure yet. On December,
Speaker 1: Josh Han Sucker was charged with murder. He claims as
Speaker 1: innocent and is out on bail and his cases ongoing.
Speaker 1: Again innocent until proven guilty. But it's just interesting to
Speaker 1: see how some of these cases can cross over, and
Speaker 1: what are the odds that the same detectives who worked
Speaker 1: Steve's case are now also working this one as well,
Speaker 1: let's stop here for another break well stuff. Back to
Speaker 1: the original case of Steve and Mona Clayton. The d
Speaker 1: A ended up offering her a plea deal, which accepted.
Speaker 1: She pleaded guilty to tampering with Steve's food and drugs,
Speaker 1: and it ended up being a charge of voluntary manslaughter.
Speaker 1: At her sentencing, Lana maintained that she didn't mean to
Speaker 1: kill Steve, just hurt him. I did and also put
Speaker 1: the visne is Stephen's drink, and I did it with
Speaker 1: the intent to make him sick and uncomfortable. I was
Speaker 1: upset about the abuse and just wanted him to leave
Speaker 1: me alone. I never thought it would kill him. She
Speaker 1: actually told the judge that she had been sexually abused
Speaker 1: her entire life and that she was dealing with the
Speaker 1: trauma of that. All that to be said, no one
Speaker 1: could ever back those claims up. In court, Steve's loved
Speaker 1: ones spoke about their experiences with Lana and dealing with
Speaker 1: the loss of the kind and big hearted man. Impassion.
Speaker 1: Please like this from loved ones really can make a
Speaker 1: difference to the judge as he decides the sentencing. Please
Speaker 1: note that the friend pronounces her name Lanta, but the
Speaker 1: correct pronunciation as we heard it, it's Lata. My mother
Speaker 1: was correct when she described Steve as the greatest friend
Speaker 1: that anyone could ever have. Is Steve loves someone. We
Speaker 1: loved them too. When Steve and Landon Mary, we welcomed
Speaker 1: her with open arms. Lanta Sue, as Steve lovingly called her,
Speaker 1: was a v a nurse from Oklahoma, and the vision
Speaker 1: of what Atlanta Sue, v a nurse from Oklahoma looked
Speaker 1: like is what we saw, sweet and good. We traveled
Speaker 1: together on vacations. We visited Steve and Lanta in the mountains.
Speaker 1: We met in the middle to cheer on the seminoles.
Speaker 1: We gathered in our hometown any chance we got. In
Speaker 1: the four and a half years they were married, I
Speaker 1: never saw Aunt Atlanta angry or greedy or unhappy in
Speaker 1: any way ever. Ever, she told me she loved her job.
Speaker 1: She won it to continue working until she could retire
Speaker 1: for bed with benefits. We always look forward to our
Speaker 1: times together. Lanta and I were friends again. I never
Speaker 1: saw Lanta be angry, greedy, or unhappy. Never I truly
Speaker 1: thought that Landa loved Steve and that their marriage was
Speaker 1: good and now by her own confession, Lana had stated
Speaker 1: that she was a murderer who had planned and succeeded
Speaker 1: in taking the life of our dearest friend, our brother, Steve.
Speaker 1: Lanna didn't kill Steve in a fit of passion. This
Speaker 1: is a deliberate, successfully executed plan on Lanta's part. The
Speaker 1: comprehension of Lanta's actions unleashed a flood of new pain.
Speaker 1: How long did Steve suffer? Were the abouts of illness
Speaker 1: that Steve had been experiencing that year actually from Lanta's poisoning?
Speaker 1: Was he trapped in his own house while he suffered
Speaker 1: and died? Was he trying to seek help when he
Speaker 1: went downstairs? Did you know he was dying? Well, we'll
Speaker 1: never know the answers to these questions. My heart and
Speaker 1: soul weeps for what this may have been like for Steve. Now,
Speaker 1: along with the incredible grief over the loss of our
Speaker 1: dearest friend, we are faced with the heinous deceit of
Speaker 1: this ENA's evil murderer, who we thought was not only
Speaker 1: a good person, but we had also considered to be
Speaker 1: our friend. We have been completely fooled by Lanta, and
Speaker 1: never have I been so fooled by anyone. Steve didn't
Speaker 1: have to die. Lanta Sue Clayton methodically planned and murdered
Speaker 1: an exceptional man, Stephen Clayton. Lanna took Steve's life, took
Speaker 1: his life. As the judge handed down his sentence, he
Speaker 1: admitted that this was the strangest case he had ever
Speaker 1: presided over. This will probably take some cave as far
Speaker 1: is being bizarre lit a tangle with we We've Clayton,
Speaker 1: you you would have. He ultimately sentence Laura to years
Speaker 1: in prison, the time that Steve's family feel is not
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