By Chuck Hustmyre
April 11, 2007
DALLAS (Crime Library) — The week before Alan Rehrig disappeared, he called his best friend and told him he had just split up with his wife. Alan also said he had something important he wanted to discuss when he came home to Edmond, Okla. in a couple of weeks for Christmas.
Karl McKinney never got to have that conversation with Alan.
Less than a week later, police in Oklahoma City found Alan Rehrig dead inside his Ford Bronco. He'd been shot twice, once in his right side and once in the head. Despite the freezing temperature and snow, Alan was dressed only in shorts and a T-shirt.
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| Sandra and Alan Rehrig |
It was Dec. 11, 1985.
Alan had been missing since Dec. 7, just one day before the first anniversary of his marriage to Sandra Powers Bridewell.
Alan and Sandra had separated a few weeks earlier.
McKinney told Crime Library he's certain that Alan wanted to talk to him about Sandra.
"I'm sure he was going to unload on me about all the stuff he had found out about her," McKinney said. "I know he was finding out stuff in bits and pieces and she wasn't the woman that she was saying she was."
Twenty-two years later, Sandra Powers is in jail in North Carolina, indicted earlier this month on fraud and forgery charges for trying to bilk an elderly woman out of her life savings and possibly even more.
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| Sandra Powers |
Over the course of four decades, Powers is alleged to have crisscrossed the country, leaving behind a trail of financial devastation and death that includes three dead husbands and a dead friend.
She has been dubbed the Black Widow.
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