MORE KILLER PASSAGES FROM "FACE OF BETRAYAL"
. . . MUST BE, TWO GREAT FEMALE, ATTORNEY MINDS, THINK ALIKE! GIVING MY COLLEAGUE SOME FREE, PRESS AND EXPOSURE! I AM EVEN LEARNING SOME, THINGS, ABOUT THE LAW . . . IN UTAH, I NEVER WORKED WITH A GRAND JURY, THEY DON'T USE THEM MUCH--CAPITAL MURDER CASES, BUT, IN SOME STATES, ALL CASES, GO BEFORE THE GRAND JURY, TO GET SUBPOENAS AND SEARCH WARRANTS AFTER PRESENTING, "PROBABLY CAUSE" FOR THE LEGAL TOOLS! THERE ARE SOME FINE, LISTS OF, ATTORNEY SHOPPING CHOICES!
- He asked her if she had any enemies, but they both knew the question was a joke. Of course, Allison had made enemies, most recently Archer. She was a third-generation prosecutor, so she knew it came \with the territory. The so-called blue-collar criminals--bank robbers and drug dealers--weren't so bad to deal with. for them, getting caught and doing time was an accepted risk, a cost of doing business. they were professionals, like she was. In a weird way, they understood that Allison was just doing her job. It was the other ones, the ones who had been fairly upstanding citizens until they snapped at dinner and stabbed their spouse or decided that bank robbery was a perfect way to balance he family budget. Those were the ones you needed to watch out for. Their feelings for Allison were personal. Personal--and dangerous.
- It was fiercely competitive, attracting smart, serious, college-bound students whose idea of fun was the mock state legislature. the kind of kid Allison had been, back when she and Cassidy were in high school.
- Most people were surprised that it wasn't the creepy guy in the raincoat who went online trolling for young girls. If only. In real life it was the teacher, the doctor, the grandpa, the restaurant manager. The average offender was a professional white male aged twenty-five to forty five. . . . Sure, the kind of thing happened on MySpace, but the FBI didn't have the time to put together pages that would fool anyone. they never looked as good as the real thing. Real kids spent hours on their MySpace, tweaking them with photos and music and blogs. Real predators went there, too, but it was hard to catch them without some kind of tip. . . . Could this be the beginning of a beautiful friendship?
- Jessica, who could have been any age from thirty to fifty, said . . . Her parents had raised he to believe that being beautiful was a woman's top priority. Good grades had meant little to them, but let Cassidy gain five pound or go without makeup, and she heard about it. Her bone-deep determination to stay beautiful was what kept her a size 2--well, maybe a 4, if she was being honest, but she was a size 2 on her good days. The drive not to be old and ugly got her butt into a spinning class six days a week. It made her go to the dermatologist for another round of Botox and laser treatments. It led to regular trips to the nail salon, hair salon, and spray-on tan place. It maxed out her credit card. But it was better than the alternative. "What about plastic surgery?" . . . "That's iffy, too. In HD when you've had work done, you can actually see the seams. You could end up looking like Frankenstein."
- And Allison herself? She guessed she was still the good girl, smoothing things over, cleaning up other people's messes. The one who put herself last.
- Candy Lane was an unfortunately named fifteen-year-old who had been branded a chronic runaway. When she didn't come home from school, Portland police hadn't taken it seriously. then Candy was found in a child molesters' basement, half dead, on a live Web cam. Several cops--including the chief of police--had turned in their badges over the case.
- And people were much more likely to be harmed by family members than by a stranger. . . . The dog is stu . . .
- . . . I just didn't know some girl would rat out her own brother just for cash." "It's her stepbrother," Nic corrected. Thinking of the distance in the girl's gaze, she added, "And maybe she had he reasons. Maybe she really thought it was true. Maybe she knows her stepbrother is capable of doing bad things."
- And sometimes the jurors even thought of angles she had missed.
- I'm asking you to issue a trap and trace on Senator Fairview's phones o see if there were any evidence of a relationship between them." Unlike a wiretap, which recorded the contents of a conversation, a trap and trace was merely a record of calls made and received. . . . Maybe Fairview had called her in her dorm room. . . . .Richard Jewel had been declared a suspect and turned out to be a hero. . . . At that point, I will consider Senator Fairview a suspect. Fairview had a relationship with a second girl. What is clear is that it is no longer simply a question of Fiarview's political career. This is investigation has now shifted into the legal arena." . . . "I'm not a professional counselor. All I know is that Katie is a very troubled young woman. she can be in tears one moment and then bouncing with happiness the next." "There are rumors that your relationship with Katie was sexual." It's ridiculous that we are even being asked these questions. Katie is a troubled young woman, and I have tried o help he. And this is he payback I receive? To be accused of her murder?" . . . "But Katie has gotten straight A's, she was president of several clubs at her high school, and she got into this competitive page program that takes only a handful of students from across the nation. By every account, Katie is a success." . . . "But Senator, you are protecting your privacy at the expense of a young woman who is missing." . . . " don't the people of Oregon deserve the truth? The people who elected you to this office?"
- But Stone was a risk taker. He practiced law expertly, but often very close to the edge. of course, he would also turn around and not only tell the media that his client was cooperating, but hint that Fiariew was actually helping to track the real killer down. "This is a matter of life and death." Fairview said portentously, "I will do everything in my power to help ou find that girl."
- "I really ca-----" Getting pregnant and trying to leave were the two most dangerous times for an abused woman.
- "Oh no. I will not be bigfooted." Madeline McCormick anchored the nightly news for he network that owned Channel Four. Despite Cassidy's words, she and Jerry knew that bigfooting happened all the time. A junior reporter would get a lead, do all the work, and then, before it could go to the air, the more senior reporter would take the story and claim it as his--or in this case, her--own. . . . "No, you don't understand. you know all the good leads I've been getting? Well, the sources I have inside this investigation are my sources, and my sources only. How do you think I broke the story about Katie's blog? How do you think I knew before anyone else that the blood on Jalapeno was the dog's and not Katie's? You give this story to Madeline and that will be the last we hear from any of my source. I can promise you that." Jerry stared at her. They both knew Cassidy was telling the truth. She allowed herself a small smile. "tell you what, Madeline can do the intro and bring viewers up to date. But this is my interview. And mine alone."
- Cassidy was a contradiction. She was always sure of herself when it came to covering a story, but in her personal life she needed constant reassurance. Though she exercised obsessively, she complained about being fat, and worried aloud about growing old--and waited for someone to contradict her. And she twisted herself into a pretzel to gain the approval of whatever guy she was dating. Three years earlier, she had been a windsurer for about two weeks when she and a boyfriend who loved windsurfing. Ten she had a briefly become a vegetarian when she dated someone who abstained. And there was the time she was "seriously considering" converting to Catholicism until she realized the guy she had met on Match.com expected her to stay home and have babies. Lots of babies. Maybe Rick would be different. But Cassidy was still the same.
SOME OF THIS SHOULD BE COMING INTO SOME FOCUS FOR SOMEBODY!
AFTER I WROTE, ON SATURDAY, I THOUGHT, NO, I CAN BE THE ATTORNEY, THE NEWSCASTER, THE FBI AGENT, AND, MOST OF ALL, THE FUCKING VICTIM!
COME ON . . . I'M TNT!
KISS.
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