The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts by Laura Tillman

Author:Laura Tillman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner

A. And I said, “Buela, quien?” And I remembered what my grandmother used to do, little details, so I asked her, “Is it you, Grandma?” She said, “Yes.” “What did you do with my daughter?” She goes, “She’s right there,” like she was inside my other girl, like Mary Jane. I said, “What do you mean? That’s Mary Jane, that’s not you.” “No.” I said to her, like, she was trying to give me—like tell me, but she couldn’t say it, like, “Yo es ella, y ella es yo.” [I am her, and she is me.]

Q. What she was trying to tell you, was that she was—

A. She was in her body—

Q. That your grandmother was in Julissa’s body?

A. Yes.

Q. And Julissa’s body was in—

A. In Mary Jane’s body.

John said Julissa used scissors to cut the tape he had placed around an electrical socket to protect the children. He thought she was trying to give the scissors to John Stephan to cause him to electrocute himself.

In his written confession, John placed much of the blame on Angela for what happened next. Angela got the knives, he writes. Angela told John she’d rather kill the children than have them be evil. “I told her no, I did not want to kill them even though my grandmother took over her body.”

In Angela’s statement to the detectives, she said that John grabbed both Mary Jane and Julissa, then yelled for Angela to help him as he decapitated Mary Jane. She held on to the baby’s legs. When they were finished, Julissa was crying. John grabbed her next, and Angela held her legs as he killed her on the floor. In testimony, Angela described it this way:

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