Q:  So it was arranged where the parents weren’t even going to come to the house?

A:  Right, right.  And she was—well, he tore the paper up . . . .

Q:  . . .  So apparently what she was doing was just biding her time until Christmas when she could leave him.

A:  Yeah.  That’s all she was doing.  Just making things rock on until she could get off.

Q:  Did she ever come right out and tell you—I forgot what we were talking about before—about she had to get away before he kills her, or something like that?

A:  Well, she made the statement, she said because—

Q:  What did she say exactly—her exact words?

A:  Well, she said a—that was the last time I saw her before I heard she got killed.  She said that she had to get away because her life was in danger.  I said, “Well why is your life in danger?”  And she said, “Because,” she said, “because he’s already threatened to kill me.”  She said, “He’s taken out the insurance on me,” she said, “and that’s proof that he does mean it.” . . . She says, “Since I’ve found him,” she says, “he’s told me over and over and over if I said anything he would kill me. . . .”