Wife's death uncovers Tampa man's secret life -- Man had Two Wives for 30 Years

Associated Press ^ | 08/13/03 | Vickie Chachere

[bedolido]

TAMPA -- While their wives drove Rolls-Royces and moved among Tampa's elite, Douglas S. Cone and Donald Carlson always seemed busy with business.

Cone, the 74-year-old millionaire owner of a Tampa highway construction company, was gone most weekdays.

Carlson was also frequently away from home -- an absence his family attributed to a sensitive government job that required him to travel for long stretches.

[Dante3]

What a horrible con artist! His wife's death could well have been homicide.

[freedomlover]

Man I can't keep my wife from knowing I had a cookie at work. This guy must have been real smart or these women must have been really dumb (or didn't want to know as long as the $$$ rolled in).

[Myrnick]

The guy is apparently a masochist.

[Jonah Hex]

"Why don't you two girls and me get married?"

"Why, that's bigamy!"

"Well, it's big of me too but you don't see me complaining about it!"

[cajungirl]

well, he was a good provider for both of them...I wonder how the first kids found out that he had been with the second all along. I suspect the second knew about the first esp if she was his secretary. I wonder how he kept it all straight in the same town.