Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list because he has been presiding over the divorce court in which Davis and his wife are fighting. He originally awarded Priscilla Davis support payments of $2,500 per month, then raised the amount to $5,000. He gave her possession of the Davises' new $6 million mansion and forbade Davis to dispose of any assets (he is head of Kendavis Industries, an international conglomerate founded by his father...
After Judge Eidson made those rulings, a gunman wearing a black wig broke into the Davis mansion. He wounded Priscilla and a friend, "Bubba" Gavrel, and murdered her lover, ex-Basketball Player Stan Farr, and her daughter by a previous marriage, twelve-year-old Andrea Wilborn. Four hours later, police arrested Davis at his girlfriend's home and charged him with being the gunman...
Davis' trial last summer for the murder of young Andrea lasted 20 weeks, the longest and most expensive murder trial in Texas history. It involved lurid testimony about sex and drug orgies at the mansion, all designed to discredit Priscilla's testimony against her husband. He was acquitted and released on $325,000 bail to await trial for the other shootings. But before the second trial could start, McCrory went to the FBI with his tale of the hit list. It included, besides Judge Eidson, the wounded family friend, "Bubba" Gavrel, who at the first trial had fingered...
Priscilla still lives at the irregularly shaped modernistic pyramid of a mansion that Davis built, with its electronic sliding glass doors, its huge indoor pool, its Oriental carpets and its three pool tables. With her live her daughter Dee, 20, a guard, seven dogs, two cats and a horse named Freedom...
...time hugging her. Suddenly a baldheaded, mean-looking rich man develops a yen for the dog; she reminds him of his own dead collie, the only female who never deserted him. He produces papers proving that Lassie is really his and takes her, growls and all, to his mansion in Colorado. She outwits him, however, dumps him into his swimming pool, and runs away?a long, long way to California. She climbs up mountains and falls down mountains, crosses deserts, rivers and seemingly impenetrable barriers, and rescues a kitten from a flaming inferno. Does she make it back to California...