The Trial of Miriam Helmick

The night before his death Miriam Helmick told one of the daughters that her father couldn't come to the phone because he'd come home drunk from the Elks Lodge and she'd had to put him to bed. Prosecutors called the bartender from the lodge who said that story wasn't true. Alan hadn't been in. I was the only bartender I would have had to serve him, jurors were told. One of the detectives said this looks a lot like the scene from Old No Country for Old Men. Remember the story of someone trying to set Alan's car on fire while he was in it? The prosecution said that was pure undiluted Miriam. That she was the one who