Chapter 41 second quarter

It was Betty's turn to play.She did well at first.As the emotional audience yelled "Take it off! Take it off!", Betty threw her hands behind her back and tried to undo her bra, but somehow got caught on the hook.Betty didn't want people to see her flaws, and still twisted her waist professionally with the music.When she finally took off her bra, the audience roared with laughter.When Betty looked down, she realized that one of the silver metal ornaments on the nipple was also missing.Betty's mind was spinning rapidly, and she picked up the metal plaque with a graceful gesture, dancing it gracefully in the air, and twisting it to the microphone.

Betty said in a deep and sexy voice: "Is there any respectable man here who would like to put it on for me?" Immediately four or five people jumped up.The first drunk to rush onto the stage took the metal plaque from Betty's hand, and held up Betty's breasts with the other hand, and was about to put it on with a drunken eye.There was screaming in the ballroom. Suddenly, a man in a black suit pushed the drunk away, and showed Betty a police badge: "Dallas Police Department." Betty was shocked.She had seen this black suit in the audience, didn't he cheer and boo with everyone just now?

Betty and the alcoholic, Archie Phillips, were arrested by police for "public obscenity," and the indictment charged them with having sexual encounters in public.Betty was fined $250 and jailed for 30 days. Not long before, Betty met Doyle Wayne Barker at a gas station.Wayne works for a roofing company and he is the best skilled roofer there.Wayne is serious and responsible in his work, hardworking and hardworking, and has won the appreciation and trust of his boss, Jerry Kekendall.The Kekendal family lived in a farm not far from Cedar Lake. Wayne often took Betty to the boss's house. Gradually, Betty fell in love with Cedar Lake.

On October 3, 1979, Wayne and Betty became husband and wife.It was yet another marriage full of endless bickering and fighting.Wayne was addicted to alcohol and often provoked troubles when drunk, and they divorced after only three months of marriage. A year later, the two came together again.After remarrying, they moved to Cedar Lake with Bobby, where Betty bought a glade for $8,800, and Wayne bought a large RV in his own name.Every morning at 5 o'clock, Betty drove Wayne to Kekendal Farm, from where Wayne took the boss's car to the company to go to work. After work in the evening, Jerry Kekendal took Wayne home.

One night in October 1981, the third daughter Shirley came to visit her mother's house.Wayne was not there that day, and the mother and daughter picked up branches in the forest and lit a bonfire.During this time, Wayne started beating Betty again, and the children persuaded Betty to divorce Wayne.When Shirley brought up the subject again at the campfire, Betty said calmly, "I can't get a divorce. The caravan is in his name. If I get divorced, all I have left is this empty wood. I'm going to kill him." .” Shirley said, "Don't be stupid, what if someone catches you?"

"No, I've already arranged everything. See the pit over there?" Betty was confident.She pointed to the back yard, where there was a gas tank installed by the gas company for cooking, heating and hot water.Next to the gas tank is a pit about 4 feet deep, surrounded by fresh soil. "That's where he belongs. No one will doubt it." "Did you dig it yourself?" "No, I called a guy with a backhoe. They were building the road up ahead, and I paid him $20 and told him I wanted to build a grill, and he came over after get off work. It only took a few minutes Bar."

"So does anyone know that you dug a hole?" "He's a fool. I'm afraid he can't even add two and two to four." When Betty dropped Poppy off at Shirley's house a few days later, Shirley was really devastated.She's been trying to dissuade her mother, but it doesn't look like Betty has changed her mind one bit.According to her plan, Bobby will stay at Shirley's house tonight. That night, in the RV by Cedar Lake, Wayne Barker, who was tired all day, lay down early as usual, and Betty sat and waited in the dead of night amid Wayne's snoring. It was dark in the RV.Betty walked into the bedroom softly, took out a .38 automatic revolver from the drawer of the bedside table, and climbed onto the bed softly.She put a pillow over the muzzle of the gun as a silencer, and pointed it at Wayne's head.Betty tried to keep her hands from shaking, but couldn't.So, trembling, she pulled the trigger and fired three shots.Betty felt that the gunshot was surprisingly loud, drowning out Wayne's dull howl.Betty watched as Wayne's body writhed and twitched in pain, and finally remained motionless.

Betty turned on the light, and there was a pool of blood on the bed, on the headboard, on the walls and on the floor, and worst of all, Betty's dressing gown, sodden and soaked with blood and sweat, with more blood coming from Wayne. gushes from the star-shaped wound on his forehead.Betty rushed into the bathroom, took off her nightgown, scrubbed the blood hastily, and put on a T-shirt. Betty returned to the bedroom, took out two large sheets of plastic sheets that had been prepared from the closet, covered Wayne's body, and then tucked it under his body, and opened a sleeping bag with a blue outside and a red inside, and laid it beside Wayne. On the bed, turn Wayne's body into it bit by bit.Betty zipped up the sleeping bag, took a deep breath, pushed the heavy blue sleeping bag to the ground, and dragged it inch by inch into the vacated closet.When she closed the closet door and leaned against the wall to breathe, she was surprised to find that she was so strong.

Betty glanced at the mess in the room again, and began to tidy up the "scene".That night, the lights at Betty's house were on all night, and the washing machine, dryer, and steam cleaner blared until dawn. At 5 o'clock in the morning, it is said that when Betty sent Wayne to Kekendal Farm, Betty called Wayne's boss and said that she and Wayne had another dispute the night before. did not return. Shirley had trouble sleeping that night.At around two o'clock in the morning, she called the other three sisters separately and found that none of them knew about her mother's plan.

Shirley didn't fall asleep until dawn appeared on the horizon.I fell asleep until noon.Shirley wakes up to a note from her boyfriend Larry next to her pillow saying he will drop Bobby off at a friend's house on his way to work. Shirley was taken aback when she entered the living room.Betty was lying on the sofa exhausted, and when she heard her daughter's footsteps, she opened her eyes and said blankly, "It's over." Shirley was stunned for a while: "Then, what are you going to do next?" "Got to get him into the pit first." "Can you do it by yourself?" Shirley looked at her thin mother.

"It may be difficult, but I can move it little by little... well, don't worry, it's not your problem." The mother and daughter were relatively speechless.Finally, Shirley struggled to squeeze out a few words: "Mom, I'll help you." Up to now, she felt that she had no choice. All afternoon, Betty sat in Shirley's living room.She went on and on about what had happened in the RV the night before to Shirley.Sometimes she narrates fluently, sometimes topsy-turvy.She kept talking, kept talking, as if there was a kind of urgency to vomit, and she also seemed to want to adapt herself to the lingering fear that she had never had before through frequent reviews. Until the evening, when she and Shirley returned to Cedar Lake, Betty was still talking.At this time, the mother and daughter sat by the campfire in the garden again, because Shirley refused to stay in the RV.They left Shirley's after dinner.According to her mother's instructions, Shirley told Larry that Wayne and Betty ran away in anger after arguing, and Betty was worried that he would come back tonight to make trouble, so she asked Shirley to accompany her. It was late at night, the fire was out, and the cold was overwhelming.I can't see my fingers all around.Shirley finally walked into the RV with her mother with the courage to go all out. Everything went smoothly.They pushed sleeping bags into the hole and filled it with soil.Then send the excess soil to large and small flower beds around the RV.The next day, Betty bought gray bricks and built a platform at the place where Doyle Wayne Barker was buried, so that the neighbor's dog would not run over. Three days later, the owner of the roofing company came to Betty's house in person.When Betty told him that Wayne was still missing, Jerry Kekendall was suspicious.Wasn't Wayne's truck just outside in the driveway, where could he go on two legs? Jerry Kekendall wasn't the only one in doubt.Betty's daughter and son-in-law all felt strange, but for some reason no one went into it.Wayne didn't have many friends during his lifetime, and he didn't have much contact with his family and the two sons he had with his ex-wife.Over time, this incident was forgotten, and Betty did not even report Wayne's disappearance to the police as required. Since moving to Cedar Lake, Betty has worked as a waitress at a nearby nightclub called The Cedar Club.The ingenious club owner uses different shades of gray as the keynote of the bar, and even the glass windows are gray, which makes people feel like night falls even when they walk in during the day.This trick is very effective, and it has changed the habit of many people who drink only at night. Betty liked the job very much.She naturally likes to deal with all kinds of men, and she is quite popular among customers.Jimmy Don Pitts was one of her guests. Jimmy was in the army when he was young, and now he is the captain of the Ninth Fire Station in Dallas.He has been there for 26 years and will be retiring in 4 years.As we all know, the benefits and pensions of the fire brigade are very generous.Jimmy also owns a bought-out three-bedroom house and a motorboat in Oak Gap.Oak Gorge is about 10 minutes’ drive from the Red Cliff Ring Road where Betty lives. The fly in the ointment is that the house is not near the lake, so Jimmy can only borrow the neighbor’s trestle to dock the motorboat. Fortunately, he has a good relationship with the neighbors.Jimmy is dexterous and enthusiastic. On weekdays, if a neighbor wants to repair a car, a boat, or a house, Jimmy is always willing to help. On August 19, 1982, Jimmy and Betty married and moved into Betty's RV.He especially likes being close to the lake here, where he can tie his yacht to his trestle. Betty and Jimmy soon start to fight over Jimmy's 25-year-old only son, Jane, who has a drug problem.Although Jian Ming is married and has children, she is often unemployed.Jimmy helped him from time to time for the sake of his two little grandchildren, and now he let Jian Ming's family live in the three-bedroom apartment in Oak Canyon. At the end of that year, Jian Ming's family went to her mother-in-law's house for Christmas. On December 28, Jimmy was on duty 60 miles away in Dallas when his house in Oak Gap caught fire.When the fire brigade arrived after hearing the news, they found that someone had turned off the sluice gate.Afterwards, the insurance company paid Jimmy USD 3,860 in compensation.