wounds, Whitman probably hit her heart, the target for which he aimed. Without struggle, Kathy died instantly. As he watched life leave his wife's body, blood flowed over the bed's white fitted sheet along her outstretched left arm. Her head, sunken into a large white fluffy pillow, was tilted slightly towards the left. Only five hours earlier she had fallen asleep without fear. She most likely went from sleep to death without ever seeing her murderer. It was just as well. Whitman was right: she was as good a wife as anyone could hope for. Her loyalty never wavered, even after physical assaults and mental anguish. She stayed with him to the very end. He replaced the bedding over her. Kathy was gone.
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Again, given the nature of the fatal wounds he had inflicted, he must have had to wash his hands and the murder weapon before he retrieved the incomplete letter he had been typing only a few hours earlier when Larry and Elaine Fuess visited. Using a blue ballpoint pen he wrote in the left margin:
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8-1-66
Mon.
3:00
A.M.
Both Dead
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Then, after the typewritten portion, "All my life as a boy until I ran away from home to join the Marine Corps," he scrawled the rest of the sentence: "I was witness to her being beat at least one [sic] a month. Then when she took enough my father wanted to fight to keep her below her usual standard of living."
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In an attempt to trivialize the area of life in which his father was clearly superior, Whitman again focused on what his father allegedly failed to provide for his mother. C. A. Whitman actually provided quite a good standard of living for his entire family, even after Margaret left Florida. There were allegations from Margaret's brothers, however, that C. A. Whitman had cut off all financial support for Margaret and Charles on 30 July, only the day before he decided to become a mass murderer.
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Having placed the blame on his father, Charlie then returned to his own actions.
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