Who Killed These Girls? by Beverly Lowry

Author:Beverly Lowry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2016-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

Abreo keeps repeating the question, until Mike finally gives him what he’s after: They were gagged.

Abreo: Yes.

Mike: But I don’t know with what.

Yes, he does, Abreo tells him. And again he reminds him of the little girls squirming while he was raping them, but was something stuffed in their mouths? Can he see what it is? And can he see the face of the girl he’s raping?

When Mike says he doesn’t, Abreo says that’s because he’s found a way to take her face away and now must put it back on.

By the time Merrill reenters and asks if he got his “wanger” up that night, Mike’s bent over with his head between his legs and he’s sobbing.

At 2:45, Merrill calls for a break. Half an hour later he returns with a diagram of the shop, which Mike wants to take home and study, but Merrill says no; they’re going to take him home now, and he should get things in order over the weekend, on his own.

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The following day, Saturday, Lara will call Mike at home and tell him he doesn’t sound so good—as if to say, No wonder, now that you’ve remembered killing those girls. On Sunday, Lara and Fuentes tape a session at Mike and Jeannine’s home, using a battery Mike takes from his wall clock when their audiocassette recorder goes dead. In his living room, Mike strokes a stuffed cat while fielding questions. He likes cats, he tells them. They can’t have a real one because his wife’s allergic, but this one’s okay. The detectives have already had a run-in with Jeannine in which she called them names and accused them of turning her husband into a liar. After she leaves, they ask Mike if they can call him on a mobile phone, so they can avoid his wife from that day forward. Mike says no. She’s pissed at them and won’t let up.

On Sunday, Mike wants to visit high bridges in the vicinity of the yogurt shop, thinking maybe he’ll recognize the one they drove to after the murders, where he supposedly threw up over the railing and tossed a set of ICBY keys into the lake. Lara and Fuentes drive him around for hours, but Austin is ringed by five lakes and none of the bridges resembles the one he remembers—“that rust extension bridge with that big shit over the top.” And anyway, no keys were reported missing from the yogurt shop. And neither was the bottom half of a blender he mentioned for the first time that day.

They then take him back to the scene of the crime, but nothing much happens. Mike just looks around, saying nothing. During both trials, however, Lara and Fuentes will each note a moment when the three of them were sitting on a fallen tree limb, taking a break, and Lara asked Scott point-blank if he still had the .22 pistol used in the murders. Both officers say that Mike looked Lara straight in the eye and said, “It’s no longer in my possession.

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