they actually got back spatter, the bullet went toward the backseat, but the spatter went through the front so that s the illustration i was meaning to convey. so you chose to rely on an illustration from a fictional movie produced in hollywood to help describe this scenario? correct? i guess. sure. the final defense theory was that jim huden had an alibi, ron young, a childhood friend of huden s took the stand and told the court that huden was near his home in seattle, at the time he believed russel douglas was murdered. i did see him december 26th when he was stopping by on his way out of town. do you recall what time that was? some time probably between noon and 1:00? was he by himself? no. who was with him? peggy thomas. with that the defense rested and the defense offered no cross-examination. a month shy of his 59th birthday jim huden was facing a minimum
been lied to. both believed jim was done with the other and committed to them. he was playing us both for quite some time, trying to keep so there you are with peggy and jim s not there. uh-huh. for how long? not long because i called the radio station and suggested he get home real fast. he stopped the show and came home and peggy and i are sitting there on the couch. how did he look? not good. so what happens at that meeting? there was a lot of yelling. the two of you yelling at jim or at each other? a little of both. i was yelling at her because she knew he was married. and she was saying there was nothing left of your marriage. it was a knife in the heart and at that point he needed to make a choice and he said he was going to stay with me. although jean says peggy agreed to leave them in peace and return to las vegas, a few weeks later she was back. this time showing up unannounced at a reunion gig for jim s old
testing, and it was matched to the shell casing from the tracker and also matched to the slug that was pulled from russel s brain. the murder weapon. that s the murder weapon. and you have a guy telling you that jim huden gave it to him. right. not just that jim huden gave it to him, but he taught jim huden to fire the weapon and that jim huden gave it back to him just a few days after the murder of russel douglas. if you d had that information before you went to florida, you could have brought jim huden back in cuffs. yes. now you have the proof and jim huden is nowhere to be found. we have all we need. now we just need jim. peggy meets a new man a millionaire cowboy who was about to be taken in a wild ride. did you take a lie detector?
brenna. james huden did not even know russ douglas, but his accomplice did. jim huden, he declared, was the triggerman. mr. huden walked up to that car. he opened the door. he looked him right in the face and in the distance of less than four inches used a .380 semiautomatic handgun to put a bullet between his eyes. the prosecutor began by calling the one person that police still believed knew more about this case than she was saying. state calls brenna douglas. brenna douglas, the dead man s widow. on the stand, brenna identified a picture of peggy thomas and said they used to cut hair together. in 2003, she said, she rented a house from peggy. did you two become close? yeah. we d talk. it was just girl talk stuff. did you talk about personal things with her? yeah. according to brenna, her rocky marriage to russel douglas was among the things she talked to peggy thomas about. he had a lot of issues, throwing furniture around and different things and how he tr
huden s trail grew colder, the lives of the women who would love him took drastically divergent paths while jean grew steadily poor supporting jim, the ever-resourceful peggy, now a limo driver in vegas hit the jackpot. in 2007 one of her affairs turned out to be this man, mark allen, a new mexico horse breeder and heir to an oil fortune. the limo people asked me do you want some guy or the ex-mrs. washington, and i said i ll take the ex-mrs. washington. allen asked her to marry him. the biggest mistake i ever made in my life. within months of moving to his new mexico ranch, allen says peggy was nosing her way into his horse business, pressing him to fire longtime employees and hire friends of hers.