Inquiry - E5

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Well, the world knows Vias Happy Miles.

If you'd wager a former cocaine smuggler with eighty three years under their belt would have some pretty interesting stories to share with Happy, you'd hit the jackpot.

Lamar Chester had a bunch of airplanes he couldn't pay for, so I bought them, and that's how I met Lamar. Yeah, Lamar wasn't afraid of anything. One time I went up to his apartment and he opened a foot locker and got a couple machine guns out of it. He was flying guns then to Nicaragua.

And did he tell you who he was running the guns for?

This CIA?

I would imagine the CIA was running that show.

Hey, I forgot to tell you something, but I'll tell you tomorrow.

Remind me.

Hey, gorgeous, Hey, you wanted me to remind you to tell me a story about landing on Lamar's island.

Lamar Chester he never ran anything with Grass until I turned over that load of coke to him on the island.

So this would have been one of his firsts.

Right, do you think.

That's the first time that he ever ran coke.

Yes, I know it, because he told me that he had made more money off of that run than he had made his entire life running grass out of Columbia and Jamaica.

Wow, I'm Lauren Bradfacheko, and this is murder in Miami. The story Happy's about to share about setting Lamar up with his first load of cocaine is set in nineteen eighty. Now, just explain to me. You were running coke from where.

South America from Colombia. The trip had gone. It kind of ragged the trip before I barely got off this muddy Levy bank, and I knew I couldn't come out with full fuel because it had been raining ever since the last trip, and it would even be muddier, and so I decided I would only come out with a partial load of fuel.

Weather had already complicated Happy's departure from Columbia in terms of flying out with a full tank of fuel, which would have made the plane too heavy to take off, But after he fueled up in South Cakos, weather would also complicate handing off the load in Florida to his associate Don too Well.

The weather was so bad in Florida.

That don didn't think I was going to come, or where the hell could I have gone? I mean, the trip was on. I was leaving Columbion. I needed to get there, and my plan was to land, give the load to down and him get out of their right away.

Well, they went to lunch.

While his cocaine unloading crew was lunching. Happy says he encountered a different sort of welcoming committee, and not the sort he welcomed.

As I crossed the channel from Bimini to Opalaca, I realized they were on me, and I finally found out what frequency they were working on, and I was listening to home. In hell, there was a dozen of them on me. They were coordinating.

A dozen planes were following you.

Yeah, everything DEA and Customs had was on me, and some state birds too.

So you had gotten all the way back to Florida and realize that you have everybody on your tail.

Exactly.

So, a rather unhappy Happy was left to formulate an escape on the fly.

Literally, I turned around and headed east, not knowing what I was going to do, And as I came out of.

A cloud, I wass to know.

With their low helicopter and a helicopter. I mean we were three hundred and five hundred feet away from each other with a closure rate of over three hundred miles an hour.

Oh my gosh. So you come out of a cloud and you are facing a helicopter.

Yes. So he dropped the collective and went right under me, and I went right over the top and he landed in a field, and I circled him, and he was throwing up in the middle of the field.

Because he thought he was gonna die.

Yeah.

And so then I decided, Well, I'll go out to the Bahamas and probably end up ditching the airplane in deep water somewhere, but close enough that I can swim to the shore and the airplane will be so deep that they'll never be able.

To get it, or they won't go get it, and I'll be home free.

Well, I realized I had the two airplanes still following me.

The Jetstar was on me, and the aero commander was on me.

Well, Commander, I knew you didn't have radar and had to stay on me visually. And then I heard the jet Star landing in NASA, and he told the tower, it's an emergency. Can you get us a fuel truck out, and the guy in the tower said.

Mon, who you think I is? You fewel and lucky, get your own fuel truck.

That is mister Miles's impersonation of a behavian accent.

So I knew he'd be on the ground for a while trying to get fuel.

So the whole time they're following you, you're going through the different frequencies and picking up their transmissions. You're eavesdropping on them.

Yeah, I'm eavesdropping on them.

So there's a great big thundercloud between me and NASA, and I'm headed like I'm going to Hawksbill ron Elliot's Island property is hotel.

So I flew right.

Into the thunderstorm, which they will never do because if you're not lucky, you get sucked up in the vortex and spit out at forty thousand feet in pieces. Till the minute I went in, they went around to the north. It was the shortest distance around the thunderstorm, and the minute I was in and they couldn't see me, I made a ninety degree turn to the right, came out the bottom of the thunderstorm headed south. So I'd been in the air for over ten and a half hours,

And that is the point that Happy says. He happened upon international drug smuggler Lamar Chester, who happened to own two nearby islands.

I come up on Captain America Lamar's red white and bleach two O seven.

Just happened to pass him in the air.

It just happened to.

Be overtaking him.

Yeah.

He was headed from NASA to his island.

And when you're coming on an airplane from the back, you don't have anything to see. It's very hard to see an airplane from the back. He got a rudder and a horizontal and a wing, but nothing of mass.

And I almost ran him over. I came within a.

Quarter of a mile before I would have run him over, and I saw him. So I pulled up alongside of him, and we finally found each other on an obscure frequency and I said, hey, and I want to rent a boot.

He said, I don't know if you can afford it.

And I said, well, put an M on the end, and that should make you happy.

What runway do you want me to use?

And by putting an M on the number, mister Miles means one million dollars bail.

He couldn't make up his mind, the big island, the little island, and finally at the last minute he said, land on the on the short strip. Well, he only has about nine hundred feet up there by the house on the hill, and you can land the command shee in six or seven hundred feet eight out of ten times.

But the other two times are gonna get you. The airplane. It's gonna float and you're not gonna make it.

And it ended into a blunt cliff, so you know you're gonna die. So I went in and I was only a few hundred feet from landing, and the left engine quit ran out of fuel. Well, when that happens, the airplane veers right away. So I had a hell of a time getting it back on track and a couple hundred feet and still landing.

Holy moly.

And luckily I.

Touched down right at the start of the runway where it went straight after it came out of his undergown hangar and got the airplane stopped and six hundred feet.

So he said, what do you got And I.

Said, well, I've got four hundred and forty pounds of stuff.

I need you to fly it in for me.

He said, well, I'll fly it to georgiash, I'll give a shit where you fly it. Just take it in for me, and I'll give you a million bucks.

That's what happened.

So you offered Lamar a million dollars to land at his island and to bring the coke back to the United States, right, and that million it came out of the shipment. Happy was flying for Pablo Escobar. Yes, that Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drug lord and narco terrorist who founded the Madayen cartel.

Even when I took a million dollars of coke out of the load, I wasn't worried about getting rubbed out or anything because it was a legitimate expense. I mean, I was resourceful enough to still get the majority of the load through. I had two hundred and twenty keys and I lost thirty five of them to pay Lamar.

Big deal.

Uh, it is a big deal that Happy live to tell about it. But that's another story.

I mean, I did what I had to do and it worked out.

You've got to have like a cat, but instead of nine lives, you must have like nine hundred. By the way, Happy says he shared the same story about losing a dozen government agency planes trailing him with the federal agent who helped broker his equally incredible immunity deal, which we'll cover later. While the agent prefers not to be named, he was able to verify it.

When started to tell the story I had told him to his Coharts, they said, it never happened.

He's full of shit.

So went down and chase my steps and finally found my motel receipt for that night when I was going back to Miami. And then he found the guys that were flying that day, and they said, oh, yeah, but Billy wrote the report. Go to Billy, Billy, did you write No Harry who was going to the report?

Go to Harry. No, Charlie was going to write the report. They never wrote a report on it.

I was worried they had my end number, but they never wrote a report on it.

Why do you think, Oh, they had so much.

Egg on their face that I could screw them all.

Over by flying into that storm cloud. I mentioned earlier that Happy's dabbled in the film business before well. He sent me a DVD that contained a movie he made about the Bahamas Family Island Regatta, a celebrated sailing event and crowd pleaser since nineteen fifty four. Happy Foot of the bill for the extravagant production, which he places at a quarter of a million dollars and opens with a very formal mister Miles promoting his signature plane in conjunction with the film.

This is the pby and I'm Happy Miles.

Together we fly around the world to a joy.

Of fulfillment in communities both large and small.

Happy walks as he reads his lines, frequently stopping and changing directions along with the camera, making for some amusing edits.

Come with me to see what it is.

It rewards men and women with the sense of knowing they are the best that they can be.

When you're doing your stand up and they have you walk three feet this way and then stop and then walk three feet that way to camera.

Oh, because you should see the outtakes. I'm tuck at dyslexic and I can't read two cards. We had just come from lunch, and I've had about more Roman chokes, so I.

Had a hell of the time getting my lines done.

What follows is a lush and slick overview of the Regatta. But what makes the footage exceptionally interesting is the access at highlights between Happy and the Hamian government.

The stage is set as Prime Minister Linden Pendling, along with the visiting dignitaries and island officials, gather for speeches and congratulations to all regatta participants.

Do you know that I'm the only American allowed to race with the Behamans?

Is that still true?

Yeah?

I'm a citizen one week out of the year and that week to be designated by out Island Regatta.

How did you pull that off.

Oh, Penling, the Prime Minister. Yeah, we just made a declaration.

Prime Minister Pendling acknowledges the people of Exuma and all of those who have maintained the high standards over the years for the Family Island Regatta.

Linden Pendling is perhaps the most famous and controversial Bahamian politician. He served as the first black Premier of the Colony of the Bahama Islands from nineteen sixty seven to nineteen sixty nine and as Prime Minister of the Bahamas from

Nigel was an attorney who was Pindling's bag man.

Mainly for somebody who doesn't understand that expression, what does bagman mean?

Well, it means that when later moved into the Bahamas, he paid a lot of money to be able to operate out enormous key like he did, and Nigel would go over and pick up the money and deliver it to Pinling.

So bagman is the guy who's transporting the money from one party to the other.

Yeah.

So whatever Nigel said with the police or customs or anything was the same as probably Pendling saying it.

He had a lot of clout.

So if somebody wanted to get away with something illicit in the Bahamas, Nigel was the person you had to go through.

He was the man.

It was the man, yeah without Adell.

Though Pendling and bo denied the accusations, the public outcry led to the creation in nineteen eighty four of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into drug trafficking and government Corruption in the Bahamas. A review of Pendling's personal finances by the Commission found that he had spent eight times his reported total earnings from nineteen seventy seven to nineteen eighty four, finding the Prime Minister and Lady Pendling have received at least fifty seven point three million dollars in cash.

Explanations.

First, some of these deposits were given but could not be verified, and also pulled into that inquiry a former Eastern Airlines pilot Lamar Chester. So how did Chester end up getting pulled into the Bahamas inquiry anyway?

I'm really not sure just how he got pulled into it, but he certainly wanted to go. He had to get permission from the judge in his trial.

He'd already been indicted.

To leave the country, and after going through the ropes on that, he did flew down there.

Remember, having been indicted in the US, Chester would have needed court permission to leave the country.

As he knew at the time it was his chance to make a public statement of his gray Mail defense.

That he did it for the CIA.

He also knew that there weren't going to be any legal consequences for him, certainly in the Bahamas, because the inquiry didn't have the authority to indict anyone anyway.

That's really interesting. So it's possible that Chester was just incentivized to go there because it provided him with a platform and a megaphone to state the gray mail defense.

Yeah, I'm sure he is assumed that he would get national publicity.

One of the most significant things in this whole case was Lamar Chaster's appearance before a Royal Commission of Inquiry in the Bahamas, and that was at the time a really upsetting thing for the Bahamas because it was their version of Watergate.

That's Atlanta based journalist, producer and documentarian C. B. Hackworth.

Sir Lindon Pendling was the hero of Bahamian independence, and there were swirling allegations that he was corrupt of receiving payoffs through an attorney named Nigel Bow who also represented lamar Chester, that those payments were to permit drug smuggling in the Bahamas.

Today seebe presents as a seasoned Southern journalist with at certain angles a passing resemblance to Robin Willilliams, which is reinforced by his fondness for suspenders, even when wearing jeans and a T shirt. But when Hackworth's path first crossed with lamar Chester and subsequently the Coconut Grove Guys in nineteen eighty three, he was a twenty five year old reporter working at the Gainesville Times, a local paper in Georgia.

I became aware of Lamarchester both through some earlier reporting in the newspaper where I was working, and because I was covering a cocaine smuggling trial in federal court in which one of the defendants ended up being an unindicted co conspirator in the lamar Chester case. So that was a tie between those two cases, and who was the tie in That was Grover Alexander, who was a local individual.

And the work of a local reporter named Lavignia Miyese.

Laviniam Miese was the correspondent in White County. I knew her, I came to know her well. We really worked together very closely in the Chester case, and I give her a real tip of the hat. Lavinia wrote about the River Hills project in White County, which was ill faded.

River Hills was a short lived concept. Chester apparently created as a campsite for college kids, but was suspected to be a money laundering front, but that's not what upset local folks.

It's strange because apparently by the time the controversy arose, they actually already had opened River Hills for a season I'm not sure how many weeks, and it had lost money. The River Hills had intended to be an outdoor recreational area for college students to come and drink and probably whatever else they wanted to do, and folks in White County aren't going to stand for that going on in

If River Hills didn't exactly sit well with the locals, it would prove very valuable to the federal investigators driving Operation Loan Star. You'll eventually hear more about Leslie Bickerton, the woman Chester brought in to oversee the River Hills project. She would become a very valuable and very controversial witness for both the prosecution and the defense. But we'll get into all of that a bit later. Back to C. B.

Hackworth, Lavina had been speaking to Chester for a year or more. I mean, she had been trying to tell us, trying to tell the world this was a really big story, and nobody was really paying attention to her because she was just, you know, the White County correspondent.

But CEB.

Hockwartz says her journalistic instincts were on point. Here's Lavina meies Hex in her own words, sharing her written thoughts on Lamar Chester.

Personally, I do not know whether or not Chester was guilty of the charges in the nineteen eighty three of Aged Dregs smuggling indictment. He claimed he was innocent and he had been working for the government and the CIA. He told me that the CIA had been attempted to overthrow the government in the Bahamas.

And it was such a huge story that it sounds fantastical at first. Blush, but I've got to tell you. She had kept clippings and she had dug up in corporation papers, and it was one of the best guides and briefings I've ever had. I referred to it throughout the next year and a half that I ended up covering the Chester case on a daily basis.

Lavigna Maize provided Cbe's introduction to Lamar Chester.

At that time, Lamar was under very strict orders not to talk to reporters anyone connected to the media anyone period outside of his family and his legal team, and he violated that as much as he could. I think it was as much to prove that the government couldn't make him be quiet as it was to disseminate information. I also believe he enjoyed the coverage and being a local celebrity.

That was his ego, and Chester did not disappoint in person.

The first time I met him, I drove up to White County and out to the dirt road where his farm was.

Used. The word farm.

Very liberally because it was a sprawling piece of property with a grass landing strip. It's the biggest house in White County. Although not gaudy in any way, it was actually very tastefully done, but it was just so huge. The main room where I sat was enormous and it was a combination of a huge living room and a huge dining area. And Lamar met me shook my hand.

And Ceb knew the meeting was serving a purpose, at least on Chester's end.

Lamar was very open to meeting with me, and he was very open when I met him. I never made any agreement, nor was I asked to to protect him from himself from the fact that he was violating a court order, and he had already been significantly warned because of a television report that Fars Sawyer had done on WAGAATV in Atlanta.

Phil Stamford has already referenced that infamous interview, but I'll let Ceb remind you of what Chester claimed during it.

Well, he boasted to Fara Sawyer, and he said to me separately, he said that he had flown a shipment of marijuana, a large shipment directly over wherever Ronald Reagan, who was then president was speaking at the time. I think it was Homestead Air Force Base, and that he could have shoved a bail out and dropped it at the President's feet if he wanted to. That's my recollection.

And the reaction that statement received seemed to be the intention behind making it.

Lamar was talking to a lot of reporters and he wanted to stir this up. I wasn't oblivious to any of that stuff, even though I was young.

But did you have any idea when you left his farm that day how intense and complicated your relationship with him would get.

Well?

You would think I would answer no, but I kind of did. The scope of what he had laid out was huge.

Chester's interaction with Hackworth would intensify as the legal proceedings advanced.

Lamar would call me often late at night, and sometimes, if not usually after he'd been drinking. Now I'm not saying he was bad to drink. I don't know that to be a fact, but I do know that sometimes he drank at night and sometimes he called me, and these were not short little conversations. We would discuss what was going on with the case. He guided me toward things. I recorded all of my conversations with Lamar Chester. Georgia

Hear what you were listening to. Are the recordings of those actual conversations. Which C. B. Hackworth is sharing for the first time.

Washington was prepared to a set one flee to anything, anything with a five year cat stand silent and sentence him say just to let me walk out, or sins being no more than five years, which you know I'll do ten to a month. But Washington would take a plea to anything taxivation at this point, and bear in mind this is June is indety Mars. Yeah, but they'd take anything, and if they give them minds a bow,

Lamar Chester is claiming the prosecutors offered to drop charges against him if he turned on the Bahamian Attorney Nigel bo and Prime Minister Pendling.

But again, never once, despite everything he ever said to me, he never once did he say, hey, don't put this in the paper. Not once. When I wrote a five part series on lamar Chester, the heading on that rack card said master criminal or secret agent.

It was pretty dramatic, as would be the travel assignment. Hackworth's paper Greenlet as the young reporter continued to cover Chester.

He told me he was going to testify before this Royal Commission, and he told me what he was going to say, and he told me f Lee Bailey would be the attorney for the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, then he would be doing the questioning. I played a very short, perhaps sixty second excerpt of that conversation with Lamar for the publisher of the newspaper.

Through my relations with government of Bahamas and businessmen there in elsewhere, I have contacts all over the world, in particular Central and South America, Europe and the parties.

And they supported my outrageous quest for this story. The publisher he told me to go to the Bahamas when Lamar was there to testify. This was not a newspaper that routinely sent a reporter to the Bahamas. I stayed at the same resort hotel that Lamar stayed at. His lawyers did not know I was going to be there. They did not know the extent to which he was talking to me, and likely others. His lawyers could not control him.

Seebee also taped the proceedings, and Bill has those recordings on micro cassettes, which he shared with me when we met in person.

He was being questioned by f Lee Bailey, who, not by accident, was one of the most famous lawyers in America. An extremely talented, brilliant man.

What do you mean, Cherry Well about to airport here? Attorney Flee Bailey questions Chester about his interaction with a man named Morgan Cherry specifically.

Did he wants you to.

He really didn't want me to come back, but I didn't come.

Back to not reveal his identity.

I believe you not reveal Morgan Cherry, Morgan Cherry's but his request was that you go back on her promises, commission and not return.

That's fact.

Believe you use the word to.

Keep your shot as to indicate why his employers.

And interested silence.

They just didn't want to know.

That they were engaged, that they had been uh instrument and the Bryan.

Rosser, the Brian ross Report, that was the nineteen eighty three NBC investigative Peace titled the Bahamas a Nation for Sale? And the man named Morgan Cherry. Chester's referring to is his allegedly CIA connected link to the assignments he claims to have conducted on behalf of the US government.

F Lee Bailey. He was very good that day. He was representing the Prime Minister of the Bahamas Times that that Morgan.

Cherry claimed to be a person who.

Had helped the NBC broadcast to begin with, and whose clients were profit by an investigation shore to follow such a broadcast to the point where he.

Could promise you Besidey's representation. That pretty much sums of.

That that was taped. Cebe recalls a very interesting interaction which led to an after court meeting at the hotel casino with Chester and two young women.

Lamar went to get a drink of water and he said, if you have any questions, I'll be in the casino tonight at ten thirty in the hotel where we were staying.

So did you go down to the casino at ten thirty that night?

Yeah?

I went down to the casino and I think I had sixty four dollars that I was going to gamble with. I'm twenty five years old, working for a small daily newspaper, paying child support, so all I had on my first trip ever anywhere out of the country sixty four dollars to gamble with. I got there early and my sixty four dollars did not last long. I blew that money at the roulette wheel very quickly. So I did find Lamar standing at a slot machine, one that you fed

He just raded wealth.

And that's part of what I think made him a track do to a lot of people, men as well as women. I don't mean sexually, but I mean wanting to be in his inner circle. And we weren't standing there very long before the young lady walked up and just started hanging around him. At first I thought it might be someone he knew, or a legal assistant or something, but it was she was a stranger.

I guess it was.

You know, people have described him as good looks or magnetic personality, whatever, and in addition the fact that money kept pouring out of this slot machine. I think the sound was some sort of mating call, but since I was standing there, I guess the young lady said, well, I'll be right back, and she came back with her friend.

They were both pretty, they were both.

Young, just having a good time on vacation in the Bahamas. There was a bar overlooking the casino. Next thing, I know, the drink I was supposed to have with Lamar, as we'd already said we're going to go upstairs and have a drink, ends up being these two young ladies following us up there.

So it's starting to feel like a double date.

Yeah, And that bothered me because, you know, on the one hand, I was a twenty five year old, fairly recently divorced young man and you know, a beautiful young woman sitting next to me. Now, I remember what I was thinking was, you know, they didn't really cover this specific thing in journalism school, in any of the classes I took. But I am fairly sure you're not allowed to pick up girls with the drug smuggler.

That you're covering.

And at the same time, it's very socially awkward because it was superficially a very nice, happy little group. But fortunately for me, as I'm sitting there trying to think how am I going to get out of this gracefully, Lamar actually provided me with the inspiration, not intentionally.

And apparently did so with his signature style.

When the conversation fairly quickly led to you know, who are you and what do you do? After they have talked about being a nurse and etc. Well who are you? And Lamar said something pretty instantly about, well, I'm one of the biggest drug smugglers in the world, and this guy's a reporter that has been following me, and you know, he writes about a lot of the things that I do.

And I don't think that they believed in.

Did they just kind of laugh at all.

I think they kind of.

Laughed it off, like oh sure. I was like, well, damn, that doesn't scare him off. And some people I've told this story to have said that may have made somebody more attractive. Well it didn't really, It was that they didn't believe it. I don't think the way that he said it, and again it's consistent with what he always said. He never shied away from it. You just can't believe that anybody was this upfront, but I guess that was

I think that was what he tried to do always.

And it's not as if these ladies had like cell phones in their hands where they could google it quickly.

Couldn't google it.

That's when Ceb realized he could actually prove Chester's claim to their doting wanta be dates.

My secret weapon.

I suddenly realized it was like a light bulb going off over my head. I had a major series about Lamar Chester, five part series called Citizen Chester was running in my newspaper. I ran up to the room and got the card that is inserted into a newspaper rack that you put money in and pulled down the front of and get a paper out of. And this one had a photograph of Lamar Chester that I had taken on that first visit to the house, with a banner

To leave, call it a night.

And you know what, I don't think that bothered Lamar Chester at all. I think he was very happy that they knew who he was.

So at the time that the inquiry was happening in the Bahamas, were you even aware that it was going on?

No, I wasn't following it.

I was back in DC for a few months, and my mind was elsewhere when it was happening, and I wasn't even aware of it. Later, when I came back and Bob Adams came up to me and said, do you know who Morgan Cherry is? Well, it was shortly after this that the mysterious Morgan Cherry mentioned that I got a call from Bob who said that Lamar wanted to hire me as a consultant. There was going to be a pre trial hearing in Atlanta and he wanted me to be there as a consultant.

I said what he.

Said, you know, look over transcripts, catch inconsistencies, that sort of thing. He said he'd pay me a couple hundred dollars a day plus travel. I decided, I guess I could be a consultant.

After all, consultant for what using your ex tease as a journalist, because it almost seems as if it would be more a legal standpoint.

Well, I was used to looking over government documents and finding discrepancies and that sort of thing, believe it or not. At this point, it still didn't seem real to me that they thought I was with the CIA. So it was just an extension of the craziness that had begun when I started working for Intercept and started getting paid for blowing assignments, and if they wanted to pay me, I figured why not.

Of course I shouldn't have done it.

I knew it had something to do with their belief that I was with the CIA.

Yeah, you know, a couple hundred dollars a day plus travel doesn't sound that bad and probably seemed like much more in the early eighties.

It was certainly enough for me, that's for sure.

And if they did believe you were with the CIA, they might have thought they were compromising you. At the same time, they did compromise me that I wasn't with the CIA.

I mean I was digging myself in pretty deep with people who I really didn't want to offend.

Yeah, that's the other thing I would point out. You didn't worry that you were getting into something that you might not escape from.

I just sort of walked right into it.

And that seems to have been the plan. Here's Chester talking to CB about Phil Stamford.

I have a guy me together.

He wouldn't.

I am not, by.

Any means commn not currently in active one of the guys that.

Comedy.

You heard that right? Lamar Chester claims someone working with the CIA confirmed Bill Stamford was also in the agency's employ On the next murder of Miami, Bill Stamford leaves the Amstdam Palace for a farm in Georgia.

It was kind of strange. First thing.

They put Bob up in the guesthouse and I'm staying at the main house with Lamarren artists, who I can tell right off really doesn't want me there at all.

As the scope of Operation Loan Stark titans around La Marchester.

Frankly, with what the government stating witnesses fed to alligators, I could not understand how someone who had just made a deal to testify against him would be anywhere near it.

But I was going to find out and re ignites a cold case mystery from Miami.

And this was right out of the blue because we've never spoken about Clay Williams, the Intercept detective who was found dead in the.

Everglyn we will wait.

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