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Photo 34 This is an overall photo taken at the top of the stairway showing the condition of the top landing as well as partially looking into the kitchen The hallould be to the right, leading into the living rooh the open doorway of the kitchen off the hallway Note the bloodstains on the kitchen floor and, in particular, in front of the stove, which is visible to the left center

Photo 59-81 Overall and close-up photos depicting the condition of the master bedroom Note in Photo 72 the close-up of the waterbed and, in particular, the rolled-up blanket found on the waterbed In exa the blanket, it was found to contain e believe to be hu down the steps into the base that the police had overlooked, but I wasquickly, driven onward by the foul odor and the lack of air-conditioning I lingered only at a s child on the downstairs level Just one photo had been taken of the room, Photo 96 The narrative said simply:

This bedroom is referred to as a child’s bedroom in my previous report

The room ell cared for There was no dirt or stains of any kind, only surface dust It contained one bed,characters from a Disney fil fro dozens of stuffed animals of every shape and kind Across from the bed was a white wood dresser The draere e with three photographs of a girl I judged to be eight or nine years old The girl was dressed all in white and standing next to a tree in one photograph, sitting in a chair holding a teddy bear in the second, and standing on a diving board, her arms stretched toward heaven, in the third There were no naraph fra from the bedroo wo an infant The young woman was about sixteen Soraph: The two of us forever

"You wouldn’t think so like this could happen here," the wohbors I had interviewed up and down the street where Merodie Davies lived

I had startedsatisfied himself that I hadn’t swiped Merodie’s silverware, drove away The stay-at-home mohtened for their children and for theured they were safe--isolated froine why they felt that way After all, Anoka was a twenty-five-uys have cars, too

I didn’t want to quote crih I wanted to talk about Merodie Davies Unfortunately, hbors hadn’t even known her na, and for a while it seeht, but during the last year or so, they weren’t even sure Merodie still lived there The mother of four across the street was convinced that Merodie hadnext door to Merodie had a story to tell She was ho a broken ankle that kept her fro off a curb, do you believe it? I fell off a curb"

"Sorry to hear that," I said

"Not as sorry as I a roo?" I asked

"Two years Moved in right before I divorced my husband, the prick God, it’s warm"

"I think the word is hot"

"I think the word is sweltering Would you like so to drink? Pepsi? Beer?"