Burgess showed that Hahn had collected rent back then from one of Nelda's lawyers who was also defending Hahn's son in a drug case.

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Lawyer JohnCash Smith, representing the Nelda Stark estate, calls the fraud charges baloney and says the estate is entitled to a ruling without further evidence.

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Lutcher then married Ruby's sister, Nelda Childers, a local hospital employee.

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He got a sworn statement from one of Nelda's security guards that Nelda and her staff hid evidence that might have revealed the original owner Nita? of some art.

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Some of Lutcher Stark's heirs fumed over the brusque, secretive Nelda, but it wasn't until 1987 that they hired a tough Houston lawyer, Michael Gallagher, to raise a stink.

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Although not a factor in the case yet one of Homer's children, Rebecca Stark Smith, tells FORBES the heirs have copies of prescriptions suggesting Nelda hastened the death of both her sister and Lutcher Stark with excessive medication.

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"There is the potential that the majority of surgery we do for symptom relief is only effective because of the placebo effect--with significant potential of harming the patient, " says Dr. Nelda Wray, research chief at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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