A Fever in the Heart: And Other True Cases by Ann Rule

Author:Ann Rule [Rule, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Biography, Murder, Literary Criticism, Case studies, True Crime, Murder investigation, Trials (Murder), Criminals, Murder - United States, Pacific States
ISBN: 9780671793555
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1996-10-01T06:00:00+00:00

"Twenty-seven."

"And how old was Gabby when you married him?"

"Forty-two, I believe."

"You had moved back with Morris.... Did Gabby threaten you in any way?"

"Not me, no."

"Okay. Did he threaten you the night he came to the house and got inside because there weren't any locks on the doors?"

"No."

"What did you mean," Tait pounced, "when you said that he told you that if you didn't unlock the door and come out of the bedroom into the living room that he was going to kick the door in and come in after you?"

"That's just what he said. I don't"

"Was he threatening you when he said that, do you think?"

"I was scared, yes."

"I can imagine you were. What was Gabby's attitude about having you come back did it seem important to him?"

"Yes very important."

"Did you think it would be fair to say that it was probably the most important thing in his life?"

"He seemed to make it that way at that time, yes."

"Talking about his blood pressure and the nosebleeds and the medication did you ever know him to quit taking his medication on purpose, so that he would get nosebleeds?"

"No, he didn't."

Tait had put that thought into the jurors' minds, however, to show how manipulative Gabby had been to the point of hatching a convoluted murder plot. Tait asked about the disintegration of Morris's relationship with Gabby: these two men who had hunted together, worked out at the YMCA together, and discussed coaching together, these men who had faced death on the river together. Jerilee recalled that Morris had become disenchanted with Gabby sometime after December 1973, when l l Gay Moore had begun divorce proceedings. It had not been too long after Gabby had moved in with the Blankenbakers. "After the divorce with Gay," Tait asked, ". .. the relationship between Morris and Gabby started to deteriorate? Did they see each other often after that or not at all. How would you characterize it?"

"In January of 1974" Jerilee's voice was too soft to be heard, and Judge Lay asked her to speak up. "In January of'74, Glynn Moore moved in with Morris and myself for a couple of weeks while his wife and he were trying to settle problems, so he saw him very often, yes."

"So they were still friends, then?"

"Yes, to a point."

"But not as close as before?"

"That's right."

"Did this relationship deteriorate gradually or just come to an abrupt halt?"

"It pretty much came to an abrupt halt. Morris could just see a change in Glynn.... He took a gun up to his ex-wife's house and he made threats toward her, and Morris could just he lost respect for him." She answered queries about Gabby's prodigious drinking.

"Was it only when he was drinking," Tait asked, "that his behavior was unpredictable?"

"It was all the time actually. Glynn used whatever he felt could get an effect or something from his wrestlers. He had been in coaching so long that it just ran into his own life." That was an answer Chris Tait savored. The manipulative coach pulling the strings of his wrestlers to get whatever effect he desired.

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