Rough Trade: A Shocking True Story of Prostitution, Murder and Redemption by Steve Jackson

Author:Steve Jackson [Jackson, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: WildBlue Press
Published: 2016-09-06T03:00:00+00:00

Rosie, on the other hand, was defensive on behalf of her brother. She was a tiny slip of a woman, sort of mousy. Her home and yard in the countryside were neat and tidy, almost compulsively so. When he called, she’d invited him over, anxious to give her views on her brother, knowing that others might not have been so kind.

They’d had a horrible childhood, she said, telling Goodwin about the filthy living conditions, the lack of love, the sexual improprieties, the whippings Bobby in particular endured, and the fire that had scarred his face and the cruel taunts of the other children. She acknowledged that he’d been in trouble with the law most of his life. But, she said, he wasn’t the sort to hurt a woman. Nor had she known him to hurt animals, she said. In fact, his only friend in childhood had been a dog named Goofy, whom he’d adored.

Some of what Goodwin was being told, she said, wasn’t true. For instance, it was their father, she said, who had been caught in bed with Theresa, not Bobby. Her father was an old pervert who drilled holes in the ceiling of the bathroom to watch Theresa and even his own daughter take baths.

Rosie said she’d been lucky. Her second husband was a good man, who treated her and her children well. No one had ever reached out to Bobby like that. Otherwise, things might have been different.

Bobby had called her from jail. He told her that the girl had jumped from his van. She’d also heard, she couldn’t remember where, that the girl had her throat slashed. “Which Bobby would never do,” she said. “I might believe that he’d beat somebody up.”

If Rosie’s purpose had been to convince Goodwin that her brother was not capable of murder, she failed. As he headed back west to Colorado that evening, the one thought that kept recurring was that for most of his life Robert Lee Riggan, Jr. had never faced any real consequences for anything he’d done, which was quite a lot, but maybe now, it had all caught up to him.

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