any trouble.’ He wanted to confirm some details before he went to Ohio to close the investigation. He admired my dad’s chutzpah. My dad got away with it.” Soon after, Ashley mentioned to Pete, “There’s quite a story here.” And Pete got the ball rolling with the podcast idea. “This is a one-and-only story,” said Ashley. “People were fascinated. There will not be another case like it.” Today, what Ashely values most is the time she got to spend with her dad before he died. “My dad said, ‘I did not want to go to my grave with a lie,’” Ashley recalled. “‘Or you to hear about my past from a stranger. … I wanted you to hear the story as I remember it.’” She added, “I still laugh when I think about some of the things he did. We laughed every day. He was an exceptional father and husband.”
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