DETECTIVE FEARS HOLLYWOOD ACTOR RANDY QUAID'S WIFE MAY HAVE PLOT TO KILL HIM

A Hollywood private detective has spoken out to claim that she fears the wife of movie star Randy Quaid may be plotting to kill the actor.
Private eye Becky Altringer says she got more than she bargained for when she accepted an assignment from Quaid's wife Evi to investigate murder threats against them.
The situation got so out of hand that Altringer filed a restraining order against Evi citing drug abuse and mental instability.
Altringer has now spoken for the first time about the ordeal the experienced while living with the celebrity couple and to tell why she thinks the actor's life is in danger.
"I am very much afraid for Randy. I believe Evi is going to kill Randy and herself," she said.
Altringer was hired by Evi because she believed that the mob or insurance carriers had killed tragic Kung Fu and Kill Bill star David Carradine and now had plans to murder her and her husband, who has co-starred in such movies as Goya's Ghost, Brokeback Mountain, Independence Day, The Paper and Days Of Thunder.
Quaid, 58, and his wife “argued a lot” and “there was so much that Evi hid from Randy,” according to Altringer.
Those secrets included drug abuse and money issues, according to reports in the United States.
“Demerol use, the abuse of it, is what I saw,” Altringer said. “Evi also hid the fact that she owes a lot of people a lot of money. I would go to bed sick to my stomach."
When she asked Evi why she snorted the Demerol for her migraines, Quaid's wife had a quick explanation.
“She said her doctor told her if she took it in her left nostril it would go up to her brain," the Beverly Hills-based investigator said.
Altringer attempted to inform Randy, who is the brother of actor Dennis Quaid, about his wife's behaviour but was blocked from doing so.
“She wouldn't let me alone with Randy. I tried to get out as much as I could the day that I quit,” she alleged.
Altringer was described as clearly still distraught over the situation as she spoke for the first time.
She tried to hold back tears while explaining why she went through with the restraining order and why she stayed with the Quaids for as long as she did.
“I just want to be paid for my services and want Evi to leave me alone,” she said. “I stayed because I cared about Randy and maybe some way Evi would realise she needed help. I tried to convince her in every way that she did."
Altringer claims Evi told her to harass cast members of a play her husband appeared in.
In legal papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Altringer says the Quaids hired her "to investigate possible insurance fraud and threat to their lives on June 5, 2009. I quit working for Evi and Randy Quaid on June 27, 2009."
According to the papers, the detective claims Evi “demanded that I harass the individuals who were part of the Broadway Play, Lone Star Love, because they signed a document making allegations against Randy Quaid.”
After all 26 members of the Lone Star Love cast claimed Randy physically and verbally abused them, the Actors' Equity Association banned the star for life and fined him more than US$81,000 in February 2008.
In her lawsuit, Altringer says Evi owes her over US$19,000 in expenses, and she alleges Evi also threatened “to send some thugs over to remove information from my computer and the personal belonging that she left at our residence.”
In the court documents, Altringer says Evi became increasingly paranoid when the Quaids stayed with her at her home in La Verne, California.
The investigator wrote: “I observed Evi's paranoia increase and she was convinced someone was going to murder Randy and then Evi to make it look like murder/suicide. I was concerned because of the Demerol use and Evi was becoming mentally unstable.”
Altringer, who runs Ariel Investigations, is waiting for the court's decision on whether to grant the restraining order.
The Quaids have not commented on the allegations made against them.
David Carradine, 72, was found dead, hanging naked inside a wardrobe in his luxury hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand, where he was making a movie, in early June this year. Police later said that he died of accidental asphyxiation while performing a sex act.