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Police identified Pfohl as the owner of a car that called a tow truck for assistance near the house around the time of the murder and brought him and his girlfriend Inglis in for an interrogation. On
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murder, claiming that Clara discussed the murder with the three of them beforehand. Inglis stated that the motive for the murder was that
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