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"Interrupt" G K said "A second suspect would interject reasonable doubt into the case to the point where the county attorney ether"

"Do you really think--"

"Merodie, please," G K said, exasperated

"Sorry"

"The question is, ould that second suspect be? Now, in your initial stateht you to Mercy Hospital, you said, well, wait a moment"

G K unsnapped the locks on her briefcase, opened it, and withdrew a copy of the Suppleation Report filed by the deputy who had taken Merodie to Mercy Hospital I was looking at the door to the interview roo I were on the other side of it I always knew that defense attorneys would do al the it happen--it made

Finally, G K found the passage she was seeking and quoted frouy with blond hair ca Jefferson"

Merodie nodded

" ‘I asked Davies’--that’s the deputy speaking now--’I asked Davies who that ht be and she told me that she felt it could have been a former boyfriend I asked for the name of the boyfriend but Davies clai, Merodie If you could remember who that former boyfriend was"

"I’m not sure"

G K leaned forward in her chair

"I ondering if the forht have been Richard Scott Nye, who has blond hair Now, he had good reason to come to your house He had just been released fro conviction, and he believes you informed on him"

"I did inform on him," Merodie insisted

"Yes So Nye could have coe"

"Yes"

"And got into a fight with Jefferson"

"Yes"

"The question is: Do you reht with Jefferson? In your statement you said that a ot into a fight with Jefferson Do you remember now that the et you out of here"