Miriam Helmick
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Somebody tried to torture a car. They took a stick or a big restaurant skewer and put some kind of gauze on it and stuck it down in the gas tank and lit it.
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I mean, it's just weird. I don't know. We've been hashing it over last night. We can't figure it out.
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His goal in life was to make me happy, and he took care of me. His favorite saying was, have fun like hell. So anytime he knew I was going shopping or he gave me money or anything like that, he would say, have fun like hell.
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There was a scare in the community, you know, that something like that could happen. We don't have a lot of crime here.
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Very quiet. I'm missing my right arm, I feel like. I'm just missing my life. I don't know what to do.
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Take it all that they may be connected. A good possibility. I was letting them figure that out. It was, I mean, it was a shock to us. But he never mentioned anything about anybody that would do something like that.
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I did not have any legal claim to anything that he owned. Okay. It was pretty cut and dry.
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I'm missing my right arm. I feel like I'm just missing my life. I don't know what to do.
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I went to, of course, Mesa Market. I went to Walmart. I think I have all the receipts in my pocket.
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I wanted to get back into dressage and decided I should have a dressage horse, so he bought several.
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His goal in life was to make me happy. He never wanted me to worry about anything or have any problems or anything, and he took care of me, everything.
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Yes and no. That's the look. I don't want to leave because I'm closer to him here.
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Hey, Miriam, this is Christy. I've been calling my dad for about a week, and I'm not hearing back.
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Well, not really, no, because I was there trying to work, but he just never gave up. Let's just put it that way.
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Yes. It was kind of hard not to. I mean, he's a very, very kind, very sweet man, and he always had your best interest at heart, usually.
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No. He would get really pale during the day and I would make him rest. And so I would take his phone away where he wouldn't ring so that he could get some rest. Because it seemed like they always called when he was trying to get a nap.
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Did you steal any money from Alan? Did you have anything to do with starting that car fire? No, I didn't have any explanation to do it. But I almost believe
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Well, I don't think he thought about hurting himself. And it took me a while to wrap my head around that he would possibly do anything like that.
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I started to wonder if he just because as soon as he got his car home, he applied for the insurance money.
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I didn't know it was missing until this whole thing, so I have no idea how or where it went.
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I know. When I first met him two years before that, I saw that he was removing, and I asked him to put it away because I don't like handguns. I just don't. I already had to deal with that kind of thing. It was very unnerving to me. That was the last time I saw him.
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I'm missing my right arm. I feel like I'm just missing my life. I don't know what to do.
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Well, you know, that's funny because when I went to the police that afternoon, you could tell I hadn't taken a shower. So you had not washed anything off? Miriam has filed numerous appeals with the courts. They've all been rejected. But she vows to keep on fighting. and I do have hope. I know that I've been killing. Now that I'm on this path, I'm not gonna lay down and die with it.
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We knew patrol had been dispatched out to what was reported as a robbery, and then we had a deceased person on scene.
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I think about him all the time. He would say things that I remember. His biggest saying was, it's only business, treat it that way. He was fun to be around.
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Hey, Alan, this isn't funny anymore. I've been sitting here in front of a Chinese place for 15 minutes, so would you call me?
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I had some errands I needed to run today. So he was going to be with me later. So he got in the shower and got dressed. OK. What time did you leave?
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I just want to let you know I'm going to Walmart. If you're going to meet me for lunch, let's meet at the Chinese buffet. Love ya. Bye. Then what happened?
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I still hadn't heard from him. And then I went from there to Orchard Mason City Market to pick up his prescription.
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Hey, Alan. You need to turn your phone on. Question for you. When we got to pick up your prescription, they said that you hadn't been by yet. So are we still going to be able to meet for lunch? It's not like you to call, not call me. So give me a holler. Thanks. Bye.
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And since he hadn't called me back, I thought he was caught up somewhere to me. So I left a message and told him I was going home in case he decided to, um, meet me there anyway.
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Okay, Alan, this isn't funny anymore. Um, I've been sitting here in front of a Chinese place for, um,
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I met him teaching how to dance, and I didn't really like him while he grew on me. But he was such a gentleman, and he was so sweet, and just loved him to death.