The Second Wife and Subculture Tribalism: A Shocking Story of a Second Wife’s Attempted Murder of Her Wealthy Husband; Cover-Ups of Her Evil Actions by Lawyers and the Local, State, and Federal Law Enforcement Agencies to Protect One of Their Own from Outsiders

By James Anderson and Chris Goodman

Revealed are the second wife’s attempt to murder by any means possible her wealthy fifth husband for his money; a town’s clan-tribal mentality; a corrupt legal system of unethical and conspiring lawyers; close relationship by the enforcement agencies at the local, state, and even federal level and their utter failure to act independently; rampant greed; immoral sex by the second wife; use of religion for personal gains and to present false appearances; inadequate protection by the State Health Services; The State Bar and its ease of being manipulated by local attorneys; and malicious denial of basic civil and human rights.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9781984577641

James Anderson

James Anderson (CSP) is an Australian-based international speaker, author and educator who is passionate about helping everybody become better learners. Originally a teacher and school leader, for the past 20 years James has been working with schools to make classrooms more thoughtful places. His previous books are Succeeding with Habits of Mind, The Mindset Continuum, The Agile Learner and The Learning Landscape.

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Dedication

The book is dedicated to the loving memory of John

Anderson and to his children and grandchildren.

CONTENTS

Characters

Chapter 1     Early Life and Upbringing

Chapter 2     Death of First Wife and Marriage to the Second Wife

Chapter 3     Suspicious Event: Hospitalization of Husband

Chapter 4     The Second Wife

Chapter 5     Second Wife’s Neglect and Abuse of Her Recovering Husband

Chapter 6     Husband’s Family Takes Second Wife to Court

Chapter 7     Court Appoints Conservator to Manage Estate Finances

Chapter 8     Second Wife is Issued a Domestic Violence Order

Chapter 9     Corrupt State Health and Family Services

Chapter 10   Second Wife’s Actions After the DVO

Chapter 11   Husband Dies Unexpectedly

Chapter 12   Husband’s Brother Is Appointed Executor for John’s Estate

Chapter 13   Attitude of Care Givers

Chapter 14   Corrupt Attorneys’

Chapter 15   Husband’s Brother Attempts to Get Justice for his Brother

Chapter 16   Husband’s Family Loses and Suffers Substantial Injustice While a Despicable Subculture Prevails

Appendices

CHARACTERS

CHAPTER 1

Early Life and Upbringing

Chris Goodman remembers spending his early childhood with his family and his cousin’s family in a small village located in a northern state. Chris’s apartment was located a few blocks away from his cousins, James and John Anderson.

Chris grew up close with his cousins, especially after their mother passed away suddenly when they were only ten and fourteen years old. Chris’s mom, Mary, took both cousins under her wing and brought the two families very close. Chris’s parents bought an old farmhouse with seven acres of land up in the mountains about two hours’ drive north from their home. The property was surrounded by state forest land, so it was isolated and extremely quiet. They would drive James, John, Chris and Chris’s dog, Chloe, to the mountains on the weekends in the summer to get away from the hustle and bustle of their hectic life. Chris’s dad, Mike, worked the night shift at an automobile manufacturing company and his mother worked during the day as a secretary at a local battery company in town. The only time Chris, his older brother, Vincent, and their parents sat down to eat dinner together was on the weekend. So the weekends’ they drove up to the mountains was an important part of his life as well as that of James and John. John’s dad also worked at the automobile manufacturing company as a machinist. His mother worked as a secretary. Both families worked hard during the week to make ends meet and to offer an opportunity for their children to go to college, get good jobs and do well in life. With all the stress of the working families, it was so much fun getting away on the weekends and spending time together in the quietness of the mountains and wilderness.

John was a few months older than Chris and an extremely competitive boy. He loved to shoot rifles. Initially, he had a BB gun, then a pellet gun, then a 22- and finally a 12-gauge pump shotgun. John would buy bullets and shotgun shells by the carton-twelve boxes each. Up in the mountains, he would set up a shooting gallery in the woods with bottles, cans, pots and pans and anything else he could find that he could shoot at. Then he would spend hours shooting at his targets. Neighbors down the mountain thought there was a war going on with all the noise! Even though Chris had a BB gun, a pellet gun and only one shotgun, a 16-gauge double barrel shotgun, he was not as enthusiastic as John in the target practice. John would always beat Chris at target shooting and loved every minute of it!

John and Chris would always go out into the woods to hunt rabbits and squirrels. Chris’s dad would show them how to clean the game they killed and how to cook them up. However, some game could not be eaten. For example, one time there was a squirrel up in the top of a tree. John and Chris got side by side in front of the tree. They both began to shoot at the squirrel. Chris would reload and keep shooting. John had a12-gauge pump shotgun. He would also reload as quickly as he could. They would continue to shoot at the squirrel, even when it started to fall out of the tree. John was so quick; he could empty his shotgun on the squirrel on the way down to the ground. When they picked up the dead squirrel, it was so heavy with all the lead shot in it. Chris’s dad thought the boys had run into a lot of animals to shoot with all the firing and noise. When he saw the one dead squirrel they brought back to the house, he looked at them and said You have got to be kidding! All that noise for this! There is no way you can clean and eat this animal loaded with all the lead shot! They all laughed until their stomachs ached.

Another time, John and Chris came across a rabbit in a field behind the house. John and Chris stood back-to-back and watched the rabbit run a circle around them. They started to shoot at the rabbit as it ran around them. Again John shot a whole box of shotgun shells and Chris shot and reloaded a number of times. After all the shooting and noise, the rabbit was never hit and finally ran off into the woods. John looked at Chris and just shook his head in dismay. Chris’s dad asked them to show him the poor animal they were shooting at. They told him, they missed! Then they all laughed again until it hurt. Those were great memories.

John and his dad were serious bowlers. They would often drive over to a bowling alley about ten miles away from their home. Both became pretty good and bowled in bowling leagues, winning a number of trophies. John had a 186-192 bowling average. Both were very competitive and always practiced to become better and better. In fact, Chris learned how to drive a car and pass his driving test by driving John in his family car every Saturday morning over to and back from the bowling alley for him to practice.

In high school, John was on the wrestling team. He excelled at body building and became a huge and extremely muscular six foot tall wrestler. In many ways he resembled the Hulk. He became the leading wrestler at his high school and won many titles and trophies. He loved to meet people and shake their hands. John would squeeze their hands and watch the expression of pain on their face. Then he would smile and let the hand go. When John entered the wrestling ring, the opponent would start to tremble. John excelled at whatever he decided to take on.

After high school graduation, John attended college. He excelled and graduated with an engineering degree. While at college, he met a lovely girl, Betty Scroll, and eventually married her. After graduation, John took a job as an engineer at the automotive manufacturing company in his home village. He quickly excelled at his job and was promoted to middle management in the organization. John continued to do well at his job and received bonuses for his excellent accomplishments. He furthered his education and got a MBA from another college. John and Betty started their family and had two children: a boy, Steven, and a girl, Judy. John bought a very nice home north of town. He would drive twenty miles to work every day at four o’clock in the morning and drive back home after five o’clock in the evening. He had a garden and fruit trees at his house. Again, he showed his competitive nature. He grew the biggest tomato plants with the largest tomatoes of any of his neighbors. He would harvest his tomatoes, apples, plums and nuts and take them to work to give to his coworkers. Everyone raved about John’s tomatoes. What is more amazing, John did not eat tomatoes!

John continued to love to shoot his guns, for target practice and for hunting. He started a gun collection that ended up with about fifty guns. He required so many bullets and shotgun shells that he bought exclusive bullet reloading equipment to reload his bullets and shotgun shells in support of his desire to shoot guns. John excelled in reloading bullets and shotgun shells and even over-loaded the shells. He enjoyed providing bullets to his hunting buddies.

John was very successful at work. He continued receiving bonuses and benefits and amassed a substantial wealth. Then hard times hit and the automobile manufacturing company’s plant had to be closed. The workers were offered early retirements or transferred to other locations. John was offered a transfer to a small town in a southern state. He and Betty moved to the southern state, leaving their grown children back up north to continue their jobs and college education while living in their family’s home. John and Betty purchased a beautiful home in one of the nicer subdivisions. John also bought a hundred-acre farm outside of town where he could shoot his guns, have target practice, hunt, and plant and grow trees. Everything seemed good and life was great!

CHAPTER 2

Death of First Wife and Marriage

to the Second Wife

Shortly after moving to a southern state, Betty was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and underwent treatment. John took care of Betty and provided the best care he could find. Unfortunately, Betty passed away and John was left alone. This was a crushing blow to John. He was lost in the kitchen and found it difficult to boil water! He was a fish out of water when it came to cooking and housekeeping. He was lost in a large house alone.

Sadly, John retired from the automobile manufacturing company that same year and found himself alone with no one at home. Prior to Betty’s death, she told him he should find someone and remarry. Reluctantly, John started to look for another person to keep him company. John was an engineer who could design elaborate equipment for an automobile manufacturing assembly line but he was not a home maker and did not know a great deal about keeping a house, washing clothes or preparing meals. He was totally lost! He never was a dating man and had few female acquaintances before he married Betty. He did not know where to look to find a suitable female companion. He never visited or hung out at bars or places of activities that exposed him to other females. He just was not the partying type of person. He did not smoke or drink alcohol. Consequently, he looked in the newspaper under the classified sections to see what possible woman might also be lonely and looking for companionship.

It so happened that there was one person, Selma Trash, who was listed in the paper. John contacted her and she met John one month after Betty’s funeral. Selma had been married and divorced four times. She had a daughter, Rachel, who also was married and divorced, seven times by age of forty two. There seemed to be a pattern of questionable actions between Selma and her daughter and numerous men. They seemed not to last with the person they marry. John was so amazed to find a woman available and interested in being his companion, he lost sight of exactly what he was getting into with Selma. After the initial meeting and within two months