No option? Possible death pact tied to financial losses
It was a bitterly cold January night when Charles Keiningham went over to check on his friends, Donald and Valerie Slater. He was already worried about the Slaters and he became even more uneasy when he reached the couple's northeastern Albemarle farm. The gate was locked, and no lights were visible in the mansion, set a half mile from the road. There was mail in the mailbox.
Worse, Keiningham recalls thinking, he and his wife would talk to the Slaters nearly every day, but the Keininghams hadn't heard from them in two days. Valerie's son in California had called, concerned when his mother didn't return text messages.
Keiningham arrived at Foxport Farm on Wednesday night, January 21. He called the police at 11:10pm and waited at the locked gate.
"If I break it," he recalls thinking, "Don's going to have my ass."
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