Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule

Author:Ann Rule [Rule, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-08-25T18:12:52+00:00

SMALL SACRIFICES 237

"No. That wouldn't help. You know why?"

"Why?"

"Because you don't like trouble."

"Well, I certainly don't. That's the truth."

"You hate kinks and I know that, and this has got to be one of the kinkiest things that's ever happened. All I'm trying to do is protect you."

Theirs was, perhaps, the strangest dialogue between ex-lovers ever to buzz along telephone lines. Diane patiently explaining to Lew that she loved him, but not enough to kill for. Lew questioning her, picking apart her obscure explanations about suspects, intrigues, plots against her.

"Jesus," he breathed. "You have been watching too many cops and robbers movies."

"Oh, Lew," she cried. "I'm in a cops and robbers movie. . ."

"I can't be implicated, Diane," he reminded her.

"Oh Lew, you can. I took a lie detector today."

"You took it?"

"Yes, I did. Don't tell anybody."

"What's the big deal?"

"Because the lie detector turned out the way they wanted it to. They didn't give me the test. It was a private test, taken on the side. Don't tell anybody. They asked me, 'Are you going to tell, the truth?' I said, 'Yes.' It said I was telling the truth. They asked

if a white male stranger was holding the gun that shot my kids, I said yes. It said I was telling the truth. They asked, 'Were you holding the gun that shot your kids?' I said no. It said I was lying. It can't go both ways. Either he's holding the gun or I'm holding the gun. See what I mean?"

Diane went to great pains to explain police strategy. They could not be trusted. "Why do you think the press is on my side?

Because the judicial system here is rotten. It's fucked up. It's aWarped. They will sacrifice anybody to keep up appearances. They haven't lost a murder case here in ten years. Lew, they

fucked up this one. They didn't look for the guy and he's probably fucking out of this state by now, and now they have to pin it on somebody or they've lost a murder case, a big one, a very well publicized one."

She was deluded about the media. The press simply knew a good story when they saw it, and Diane could always be counted on for an interesting quote.

240 ANN RULE

Christie's memory--when she would let herself into it--was excellent. But she needed a safe, therapeutic environment where she could work through her trauma, where she might one day feel safe enough to relate what had happened after they left Heather's house on May 19. Her terror had to be defused gradually. Carl Peterson found Christie cautious and guarded. He didn't hurry her; he tried to find a mirror in her mind that would reflect what she was trying to keep hidden. Peterson never doubted that Christie had a memory. "The memory was put away--memories put into a vault until it was safe enough for them to come out. When they come out, it is like a flood, basically--a flood of memories."

Christie's emotional well-being was paramount. The

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