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7 Q. (By Chief Beckner) What about
8 your relationship with John and Barbara
9 Furnham --
10 A. It was -- they were good friends.
11 We spent a fair amount of time together.
12 They were good family friends.
13 Q. Are they still good friends?
14 A. Well, we certainly consider them
15 friends. Barbara had some emotional problems
16 before this all happened, and John wrote us,
17 I don't know, I guess months later and said
18 that Barbara is having difficulty dealing
19 with this and please ask Patsy not to write
20 her or respond to her.
21 I have talked to John a few
22 times, but not, not recently.
23 Q. Since June of '98, have you
24 talked to John?
25 A. Possibly. I don't remember

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1 specifically, but I have talked to him
2 probably twice, I guess.
3 Q. By telephone?
4 A. By telephone.
5 Q. (By Mr. Wickman) John, I asked
6 this of Patsy earlier this morning. Since
7 you relocated to Atlanta, have there been any
8 threats to you, to her, or to Burke?
9 A. There have been. In fact, I just
10 got one last night on the internet. The guy
11 was in New York and said if I ever came to
12 New York, I was done for.
13 We've had people come to our
14 door -- I mean to our home. We put a gate
15 up. But what has been uplifting for us is
16 that, in the last three and a half years,
17 virtually everyone who has approached us has
18 been kind and sympathetic.
19 But we would get occasional hate
20 letters. We haven't gotten many, haven't
21 gotten too many recently other than the one
22 last night.

Barb Fernie was very upset over this situation and things got worse, I understand, as the police tried to influence her....

She has requested that she be left alone and I believe everyone has done that.

I hope she finds peace in what she kows for herself - I hope she is able to ignore the clammering of fools.