He answered the door in his pajamas because someone said they needed help. That decision cost Paul Clifford his life. Late on Dec. 23, 2024, a knock startled the Clifford family at their secluded home in Redington, east of Tucson. Paul, 53, got up, answered, and heard a stranger say his truck had broken down and he needed a jump start. Paul grabbed the keys to his daughter’s Ford Ranger and drove off into the dark with him. His family never saw him alive again. By Christmas Eve morning he was found shot and burned on a remote Pima County road, next to a stolen truck that had also been set on fire. Prosecutors say Jack Upchurch, 42, had been driving that stolen truck with 16 year old Wendy Scott and 19 year old Elmer Smith, that the three siphoned diesel out of ADOT equipment, and that the truck stalled and would not restart. Scott testified Upchurch smoked meth and walked off looking for a way out of it. She told jurors she heard Paul say “Why are you doing this” right before a singl...