It means he's out of the house and they can break in and wait for him.

You might think that 6'2" Stringbean, a Hee-Haw country comedy star, would not have an enemy in the world. Evidently he thought so.

When he returned home on November 11, 1973, from a performance at The Grand Ole Opry, he and his 59 year-old wife Estelle encountered two thugs.

They had been waiting for him. They had heard his radio broadcast. They calculated how long it would take for him to get home. And they demanded the money they figured a big comedy star would have around the house.

Just an hour or so earlier, Stringbean was killing the audience.

You guessed it.

Now, he lay dead. And his wife? She didn't get far when she ran out of the house. While on her hands and knees, pleading for her life, she was shot three times and left face down in the grass.

In this all too typical human comedy, the killers fled without the money they considered more precious than life itself. They didn't take a closer look at the bodies of their victims. Stringbean had $3,000 in his pants pocket. And his wife had another $2,000!

The sentence for the killer was life in prison. This, after the sentence they passed on a harmless comedian and his wife was violent death at home.