I used to walk my dogs down that road just about every evening, and I'd see her (Ms. Evans) sitting alone at her kitchen table reading. Anybody walking or driving by could see an elderly woman living alone in a big house. You just have to wonder if someone needing drug money saw it as an opportunity.

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She lived alone there, and that is what I think had made her so vulnerable. She was like the rest of us - she kept her doors open and lived a simple life.

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