Dead Ends by Joseph Michael Reynolds

Author:Joseph Michael Reynolds
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504038669
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-05-10T04:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

Pirate’s Cove

Munster was waiting at the Volusia County Sheriff’s Department when Horzepa and Buescherr brought Wuornos through on her way to the county jail. Everyone kept his cool, kept up the front that this was just a routine bust on an outstanding warrant. While Horzepa made a phone call to Terry Moore, director of the Volusia County correctional facility, Munster approached Wuornos. Without identifying himself, he asked if she’d like a cup of coffee and a cigarette. She said she would, and Bruce went off to get them. He brought her a pack of smokes and the coffee, smiled, and said, “Well, I got to go. See ya.” Bruce left the sheriff’s office and headed back to the Pirate’s Cove, where a party was under way.

Arrangements were made with Moore to have a female Pasco County officer placed undercover in the cell with Wuornos. Other than Moore and supervisor Dan Cassidy, no one else at the jail was aware of this ploy. It was a shut-down from the top. Meanwhile, a local newspaper reporter had picked up word of the arrest over a police scanner and had phoned the sheriff’s office. His call set off a momentary panic.

“He put two and two together,” Ehrhart recollected. “He asks, ‘Did you arrest this woman for the murders?’ I just flat lied. ‘No … nothing to it at all. Routine warrant arrest.’ He didn’t know the name on the warrant. I made a split decision—the safety of the officers and the integrity of the investigation versus the public’s right to know. At that particular time my concerns were the investigation and the safety of the officers. We had an officer undercover in the jail.”

Out at the jail, Bob Kelley, Larry Horzepa, and Bernie Buescherr were working Wuornos through processing. Kelley brought in the undercover officer as if she were a prisoner he had just arrested, leading her in just ahead of Wuornos.

While the correctional officers went through Wuornos’s belongings, Horzepa and Buescherr stood by. “That’s when we came upon the key,” Horzepa recalled. “When it was taken out and placed down in the inventory log, she says, ‘Don’t lose that key! That key is my life.’ And at that time, we saw she had a card for Jack’s Mini-Warehouse. An investigator went over there and found that Cammie Marsh Greene had rented a unit and had the same type of key, an Eagle key.”

In her purse they found a plain piece of paper letter-headed Jack’s Mini-Warehouse, an IOU for twenty dollars, several condoms, a photograph of Tyria Moore, photographs of two blond children—later it was learned these were her sister Lori Grody’s children—and two advertisements for vanity presses that had been torn from the pages of magazines. Had Aileen Wuornos a book on her mind, perhaps the true story of a female serial killer? By the end of January her media ambitions would range much further than self-publishing memoirs.

Over at the Pirate’s Cove a party was going on. The surveillance team was packed

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