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“I’ht your wife home from the hospital”

“Oh? I didn’t know Why was Joan in the hospital?”

“She was shot, Mr Murphy Let et her I’ll tell her that you’re back here”

Conklin went back out to the front door and told Joan Murphy that her husband seemed fine She sun and acco blue scrubs, paper slides, and an SFPD windbreaker

When he saw Joan, her husband opened his arainst his chest

“I almost died, Robert I almost died”

Conklin thought that Murphy’s actions arm, but his expression and his affect seemed to be a little distant Conklin watched and listened as Joan gave Robert a shorthand version of the story as she knew it But why didn’t Joan’s husband seem shocked by the news?

Joan told Robert that she had woken up in the ue Apparently she had been shot in the shoulder and had a wound on her hip as well, but she had no oodness she had no broken bones She just needed some TLC and rest

There was no mention of the deceased John Doe

Robert asked her where this had happened and she said, “At the Warwick, Robert I was found in a hotel rooht I was dead! My jewelry was gone That lovely pendant of s were taken, too”

“Why were you at the Warwick?”

“I have no idea how I got there, Robbie I think that I was drugged and kidnapped”

“Drugged and kidnapped? My God, Joan By whom?”

“That’sto figure out what happened and who is responsible”

“God, I hope so,” Robert said as he hugged her close one ood care of you, dear”