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I had coffee with Michael White and Randy Marshall, the broadcaster I'd phoned when I first interviewed White.

We met at Tim Hortons on Stony Plain Road just west of 156th Street. While Marshall grabbed himself a hot chocolate, White sipped on a coffee and read the Edmonton Journal's coverage of his bail appeal.

White said it was good to be out of the Remand Centre, folded the paper and called the coverage biased.

Weeks later, I asked Marshall to give me his assessment of Michael White's house and we went up there together. Marshall described the residence as clean and orderly ... with a "peaceful but empty" feeling.

Marshall picked up on something I hadn't noticed before: the licence plate on the front of White's truck had a skull and crossbones on it.

Marshall said, "Mike, let me get this straight ... you're facing a murder charge, and you're driving around with a skull and crossbones licence plate? What's up with that?"

Michael White's response: the licence plate was a gift from Liana and he didn't want to remove it.

White eventually took the plate off.

After Marshall and I left White's sub-division in Castle Downs after dropping him off, Marshall said if Michael White didn't kill his wife "he's the Forrest Gump of accused killers."

When I dropped around to the White residence another time, I saw something had splattered on the garage door. I noticed a second splatter, then a third.

I told White somebody just egged his house. Without missing a beat, White got some paper towels from the kitchen and said, "Are they doing that again?"

As White wiped up the mess, I said if his neighbours had only thrown a few more eggs he could make himself an omelet.

Michael White told me when he left his truck on the street, after he got out on bail, that all four tires had been flattened. After that, he said, he kept his vehicle in the garage with the door locked.

It was light harassment: eggs instead of rocks and letting the air out of tires instead of slashing them.

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