Love Me To Death by Steve Jackson

Author:Steve Jackson [Jackson, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2011-03-24T00:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

September 14, 1998 cont’d

When the trio met again after lunch, and the requested cigarettes, Jose Aceves made sure he had Cody Neal on the record again stating that it was his wish to speak to them without his lawyer. They did not immediately get back to what Neal had planned to do with the bodies.

Neal wanted to begin by “clearing up” some things about himself and Candace Walters. He wanted to make it clear that she did not try to blackmail him, “but she did threaten to go to the authorities.” It was that or give her more of his time, he claimed.

“My look at it was: time was money as well as my life. It was something personal. I had already been raped when I was younger and molested . . . and this is not disrespectful to Candace . . . but I did not want to give myself physically to her.”

Yes, he said, he was angry with her demands to get her money back. “But that’s not why she died. I was angry with her because she wanted something out of me I didn’t want to give to her, and that was my time . . . sex. . . . It’s like, man, if I’m going to be a whore, let me get paid for it.”

“Why did she lend the money to you?” Aceves asked.

“Because I let her know that I needed some money for some stuff regarding my little girl as a way to touch her,” Neal replied with a shrug. “Also some trouble I was in in Las Vegas regarding borrowing money from somebody.”

“And who was that from?” Cheryl Zimmerman asked.

“That was from nobody,” Neal said. “It was a scam . . . a bullshit thing. I used that in order to manipulate to get something out of somebody.”

Neal noted the deception with Chief Deputy District Attorney Mark Pautler posing as a public defender trying to arrange his surrender. The move was “inappropriate,” he said, “but I believe that you did the right thing under the circumstances.”

“Our whole concern that night was to get to you before somebody else got you,” Aceves said.

“That’s correct,” Neal agreed. “And I still think that you were professional and did right by the community.”

Suddenly Neal reversed himself on why Walters was murdered. “I killed Candace because she got to Rebecca.” She’d found out where he lived about a month before the killings, he said, and talked to his roommate. “She was going to blow my cover.”

“So what was it that Rebecca told you that Candace said to her?” Zimmerman asked.

“That I was a hit man—OK?—for the Mafia.”

“And why did she tell her that?”

“Because she believed that I was.”

“Cody, are you a hit man?”

Neal shook his head. “No, I’m not.” He said that his world “was rapidly falling apart. . . . I mean, my covers, my bullshit, was catching up to me. And the reason was because of Candace stalking me. She was ruthless.”

The matter came to a head when Rebecca told him that her taxes would be due in August and she would need her money.

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