What Alaina Urquhart has said about Murder of Cheryl Flippo

Urquhart recounts that the Flippos had been receiving anonymous cut-out threat letters since the 1980s with no discernible pattern.

“they were getting letters, and they were sent in that classic magazine letter cutout kind of style”

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Urquhart describes Cheryl Flippo as having been found beaten to death with firewood and fire pokers, with her skull crushed and brain matter on the wall.

“there was brain matter exposed and there was brain matter on the wall. Oh, my God. That's how brutally she had been beaten”

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Urquhart says Flippo had stolen $12,000 from a church fund set up for a sick child.

“He had stolen $12,000 from a fund that the church had set up to help a sick child”

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Urquhart says the red Camaro outside the cabin belonged to Joel Boges, whom Flippo had baptized days earlier and called from the payphone.

“And that car outside the cabin? Yeah. That was also Joel's. He claimed he didn't recognize it. That was Joel's”

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Urquhart says Flippo specifically requested Cabin 13 when making the reservation two days before the killing.

“but Joel said he pointed out specifically cabin 13. This cabin, again, is the last in the row, very secluded”

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Urquhart says the stalker letters were sent by James Flippo himself to frighten his wife whenever she got close to uncovering his conduct.

“Now, also, that stalker we talked about? Was him. That was James”

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Urquhart says Flippo's life-without-parole conviction was upheld and the appeal produced a Supreme Court ruling limiting warrantless crime-scene searching.

“there was a Supreme Court ruling that came out that did limit the amount of time investigators can search a scene without a warrant”

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