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still alive,” said Pierce. “He was breathing ... he was gasping for air.” Pierce said that she didn’t remember how Eddie’s body ended up on the porch but she said that Cloniger kicked him, telling him to wake up, and urinated on him. “I was just freaking out,” said Pierce.

After the murder, Pierce testified that Cloniger spoke with his mother, Anna Belle Cloniger, who lives in Culpeper with Cloniger’s sister, Mary Streightiff, and her husband. “He said Helen is raped and Eddie is dead.’” Pierce said. While Cloniger was on the phone with his mother, Streightiff called 911 and spoke with the Culpeper dispatcher. The 911 calls were played for the jurors, which revealed that Streightiff initially thought that Ira Wayne had killed her brother Jerry.

According to Pierce, she attempted to call 911 three times, but hung up the phone rather than let the call go through. “I was scared, I didn’t know what was going on. ... I didn’t want Wayne to hear me on the phone,” she said. “I didn’t know what he was think

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