“Someone had been stalking me and threatening me. I slept in my bedroom, and he slept on the couch in the living room.”
“They-they found his body in the alley.” Her lips were trembling. “Why would I kill him? He was helping me!”
David was studying Ashley, puzzled. Something’s very wrong here, David thought,
Either she’s telling the truth or she’s one hell of an actress. He stood up. “I’ll be back. I want to talk to the sheriff.”
Two minutes later, he was in the sheriff’s office. “Well, did you talk to her?” Sheriff Dowling asked.
“Yes. I think you’ve gotten yourself in a box, Sheriff.” “What does that mean, Counselor?”
“It means you might have been too eager to make an arrest. Ashley Patterson doesn’t even know two of the people you’re accusing her of killing.”
A small smile touched Sheriff Dowling’s lips. “She fooled you, too, huh? She sure as hell fooled us.”
“What are you talking about?” “I’ll show you, mister.” He opened a file folder on his desk and handed David some papers.
These are copies of coroner’s reports, FBI reports, DNA reports and Interpol reports on the five men who were murdered and castrated.
Each victim had had sex with a woman before he was murdered. There were vaginal traces and fingerprints at each of the murder scenes.
There were supposed to have been three different women involved. Well, the FBI collated all this evidence, and guess what they came up with?
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