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1 Q. What did he do on July the 31st?

2 A. On July the 31st, I went to work, and he
3 told me he was going to the land to work.
4 Q. Okay. And is that what he did that day?
5 A. Yes.
6 Q. Do you remember what time he got home that
7 evening?
8 A. Well, I went to the land first. And then
9 he got home around 8:20 that night, a little after
10 8:00.
11 Q. And in July and August, it doesn't get dark
12 real early. When he got home, was he sweaty? Had
13 he been working?
14 A. He had been working in the yard, yes.
15 Q. What did he do?
16 A. He took a shower.
17 Q. And then how long did he stay there before
18 he left?
19 A. Just about an hour or two.
20 Q. And so he left again at what time?
21 A. It was before 10:00.
22 Q. Where did he say he was going?
23 A. Back to Johntown.
24 Q. And why?
25 A. He wanted to go back and spend some more

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1 time with his family.

2 Q. Because he had been gone for several weeks?
3 A. Yes.
4 Q. And he wanted to see his mother?
5 A. And his son.
6 Q. And his son, just for this record, what is
7 his name?
8 A. Jaquez McCraney.
9 Q. And how old was he?
10 A. About five or six.
11 Q. And Coley McCraney had custody of that
12 child; did he not?
13 A. Correct.
14 Q. Who kept the child while Coley was on the
15 road?
16 A. His parents.
17 Q. So, after working all day, he wanted to go
18 back to Johntown to spend some time with his mother
19 and his child?
20 A. That's correct.
21 Q. Do you remember anything else -- what time
22 did Coley McCraney get home on the eve of July the
23 31st and the morning of August the 1st?
24 A. It was right before 1:00.
25 Q. Okay. So when you say right before, just

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1 for this record, what does that mean?

2 A. That he knew he had to be home before 1:00.
3 That's why I know it was before 1:00.
4 Q. Tell me what you meant by he knew he had to
5 be home before 1:00. What's that mean?
6 A. Because we had a rule that after 11:30, the
7 chain was on the door, but if he came home after
8 1:00 for me not to open the door because he wouldn't
9 come in after 1:00.
10 Q. Did your kids have that rule?
11 A. Our kids don't stay out past 11:00.
12 Q. Now, that evening, when he came home --
13 what time, again, for this record, did you say he
14 got home?
15 A. Right before 1:00.
16 Q. And when he got home, where were you
17 located?
18 A. On the couch.
19 Q. You were off the next day, I guess, on
20 Sunday?
21 A. I was.
22 Q. And you were watching TV?
23 A. Yes.
24 Q. And the chain was on the door?
25 A. Oh, yes.

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1 Q. So you had to -- he had to open the door

2 and go through you?
3 A. Yes, that's correct.
4 Q. When he got home at around 1 o'clock --
5 before 1 o'clock, what did y'all do, if anything?
6 A. Well, he told me that I needed to go jump
7 the car off, and I had the tools and the jumper
8 cables in my car.
9 Q. Now, this was -- just for this record
10 again, this would have been the morning of August
11 the 1st?
12 A. Yes.
13 Q. Am I correct?
14 A. Yes, that's correct.
15 Q. So is it your testimony, then, that you all
16 left the home after 1 o'clock on August the 1st?
17 A. Yes.
18 Q. And tell me where you went to work on his
19 car.
20 A. The gas station.
21 Q. And which gas station are we talking about?
22 A. I can't think of what the name of it is
23 right now because it's changed so much. The Big
24 Little.
25 Q. And then you dropped him off, or did you

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1 jump him off?

2 A. No. I stayed, and he had to work on it for
3 just a little bit. And then I followed him.
4 Q. How long did he work on it?
5 A. We weren't there not even ten minutes.
6 Q. And so did you have to jump the car off?
7 A. Oh, yes, sir.
8 Q. And once you jumped the car off, where did
9 y'all go?
10 A. Home.
11 Q. And what time do you think you got home
12 that evening?
13 A. We were home about 1:20.
14 Q. 1:20?
15 A. That morning --
16 Q. The morning of --
17 A. Yes. I apologize. August 1st.
18 Q. -- August 1st?
19 A. Yes, sir.
20 Q. So you were with Coley McCraney from
21 somewhere around 12:45 to 12:50 to when the next
22 day?
23 A. I was with him until, like, that evening of
24 the next day.
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1 August the 1st, your testimony is that you were with

2 this man, with him in your sight, until the next
3 evening; that is, Sunday evening, August the 1st; am
4 I correct?
5 A. That's correct.
6 Q. And where did he go then?
7 A. That next morning?
8 Q. Yes.
9 A. We got up and went to Walmart and got his
10 supplies for the road, and he pulled out that
11 evening.
12 Q. When you say pulled out, what's that mean?
13 A. I took him to his truck. And he got in his
14 truck, and he drove off. He went over the road --
15 back over the road.
16 Q. And did he have his beeper with him?
17 A. Oh, yes.
18 Q. When would you have talked with him or
19 spoken with him again?
20 A. Probably, like, three days. I never
21 expected a call before then.
22 Q. And tell me about when Coley McCraney was
23 called by Marlos Walker in 2019. Do you remember
24 that?
25 A. I remember him telling me about the call,

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