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"Muehlenhaus isn’t going to like this," I said

A TV reporter asked a question "Is it true that you relied heavily on the services of an inforation and the subsequent arrests?"

Lieutenant Weiner leaned in and whispered in Tuseman’s ear Tuseman nodded and said, "I cannot co, and we expect todays"

It sounded like "Yes" to e in Merodie After just a few days of sobriety, a balanced diet, and plenty of sleep, Merodie Davies looked ten years younger ‘Course, that ical age, but ould you expect? She had been in jail only a week

She greeted us e entered Interview Room 109 "Good afternoon, Ms Bonalay, Mr McKenzie" Her sht and warm

"Good afternoon to you, Merodie," G K replied "How are you holding up?"

"Oh, I’ just fine People have been very nice to me"

G K pulled a red plastic chair out from under the wooden table and sat across from Merodie She set her briefcase in front of her I found a spot on the wall and leaned against it

"Don’t get too coet you out of here as soon as possible"

Merodie sain "I’d appreciate that," she said "So, what’s new?"

"You tell us," G K said "What’s all this about you being isolated from your fellow inmates?"

"Not all of them," Merodie said "Just one"

"Which one?" I asked

"Linda" She said the word as if it were a sexually trans breakfast They serve breakfast here at 7:00 AM whether you’re hungry or not, and who eats at 7:00 AM? Usually, I eat breakfast at, I don’t know, noon But the screws, they don’t care Eat or don’t eat, it doesn’t erator later So I’ to choke down this, this--I don’t knohat it was--oatuess, and this woman sits next to me that I’ve never seen before, and the first words out of her mouth are, ‘Those bastards don’t care about us,’ which is what I’ to her Linda was her name Turns out she was my new roommate, which kinda surprised me cuz it’s not like the jail is overcrowded There are twenty-two cells in the housing unit--that’s what they call it, a housing unit--but four of the eighteen cells that have one bed, they’re empty, and so are three of the four cells that have two beds So why do I have a rooht She was polite and considerate, a good listener, so I’enuine alar," said Merodie "I said--Linda wanted to know about Eli, and I told her what a swell guy he was and that I loved hied at the word "She wanted to knoe ever fought She said she and her old ht all the time I’m like, ‘That wasn’t the story with me and Eli’ I said ould yell at each other so You just couldn’t stay mad at Eli, no way Only Linda, she wouldn’t leave it alone She kept saying, ‘You never clobbered him?’ She said she heard that I clobbered him She said she heard that I clobbered him over the head with a bat I’ me and so finally I pushed her"