called.
Nancy Harris, who was in the house when Blakely called, testified that Allen was in the house at the time of the call. She first acknowledged that the telephone conversation between Sharries and Blakely occurred sometime during "mid-morning" on August 25. However, Harris subsequently recalled that she woke up "around 8" after hearing Sharries talking on the telephone. She also remembered that at some point that morning, Allen went to Marsh where he purchased some doughnuts. Tr. p. 1188-89; 1192-96.
Eventually, Blakely, Allen and Sharries went to the picnic at Allisonville Road and 116th street in Indianapolis, where they spent the afternoon. Blakely had a video camera that she took to the picnic and both Allen and Sharries appear in the videotape at this outing. That video had notbeen retrieved by police officers until sometime in 2000.
Allen and his wife divorced in 1991. It was not an amicable breakup and Sharries has not spoken with Allen since the dissolution. Throughout the course of the investigation, police detectives spoke with Sharries on a number of occasions and, at some point, they discussed a $100,000 reward for information about the murders. The investigators told Sharries that if "anything changed, they were offering a reward." Appellant's App. p. 2721. The FBI investigators also discussed the possibility of immunity for Sharries. However, each time Sharries was questioned by the police, she always maintained that Allen had been in bed when she retired for the "evening," on August 25, and that he was there when she awoke later that morning.
Throughout the