12.Deadly.Little.Secrets.2012 by Casey Kathryn

Author:Casey, Kathryn [Casey, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Google: s2LMmE0ZajUC
Amazon: 0062018558
Publisher: Harper
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

Fifty-two days after Kari’s death, Cooper finally asked Matt to come to Hewitt PD to give an official statement. While Kensi and Grace waited in the squad area, Cooper and Matt met in a small, wood-paneled room with two metal and brown vinyl chairs and a table pushed against a wall. A video camera ran, and Cooper sat just off camera to the right while Matt leaned back in a chair, his legs crossed. He wore a striped polo shirt and jeans, tennis shoes, and his hair was carefully combed, a new addition, a thin goatee, encircled his lips.

“I want to talk about what happened that night,” Cooper began. “We can clear all this up, as far as Linda and Jim.”

Matt nodded and quickly launched into a soliloquy of the events of April 7 of that year, the last day of Kari’s life. Much of it would be unchanged from the report he’d given on the scene. They arrived home from swimming at approximately seven fifteen, and he’d spent the evening taking care of the girls while Kari went to the master bedroom to lie down. As Matt explained it, she’d vomited twice after they arrived home. “Now, I’ve played some mind games and I wonder if she’d already taken some medicine before that time,” he said, his speech quick and unemotional.

Although he said she’d thrown up as recently as eight thirty that evening, Matt said Kari asked him to get two wine coolers out of the garage refrigerator. She was half-asleep, half-awake, in bed watching television, at ten thirty, when she asked him to fill her car up with gas and rent a movie. “She wanted to see When a Man Loves a Woman,” he said. “That was the movie we watched on our first date. That’s cool. We’ve done that a few times.”

In detail, he described to the sergeant how he left the house at approximately ten after eleven. This time, however, the account included details Matt hadn’t mentioned earlier, eating up more of the forty-some minutes he claimed to have been gone. First, he said he went to the corner convenience store near the house, only to find it shuttered for the night. “Hewitt closes down at eleven,” he said, and Cooper agreed.

From there, Matt said he stopped at a second gas station, one that wouldn’t take cards at the pump. When he went inside, “I found out they only sold diesel.” In this new account of his activities that night, Matt took three stops to buy gas, eventually filling up at an Exxon. That task completed, he drove north to Hollywood Video, where he bought a Diet Pepsi, Peanut M&Ms, and rented the movie.

“How long do you think you were in Hollywood Video?” Cooper asked.

“Ten minutes,” Baker said, estimating that he’d arrived at around eleven forty, and left at eleven fifty. He then drove straight home, and upon arriving found the bedroom door locked.

“I thought maybe she was trying to be romantic,” Matt said, with a shrug.

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