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“He could have just sat down on the edge of the bed and lain back,” I said

Newman shook his head “If he used his hands to scoot backward, then the blood that covered his hands would have left more marks”

“And if he crawled into bed, then the blood on his leg and feet would have marked the sheets more,” I said

“Exactly”

“Like you said earlier, the blood evidence is wrong”

“I saw that, but it didn’t occur to me that those weren’t Bobby’s footprints I should have realized that if part of the blood evidence rong, then it was all fucked”

“Don’t beat yourself up, New all at once That’s why in a normal murder case you have so much time to look over the evidence before trial”

“But this isn’t a trial, Blake It’s an execution”

“Not yet it’s not,” I said

“I don’t want to take Bobby’s life if he didn’t do this”

“I don’t want anyone to take his life if he was framed for this murder”

“People don’t frame other people outside of murder mysteries,” Newman said “They blame other people, but they don’t actually frame specific people”

“They do to throw suspicion off of themselves sometimes,” I said

“Maybe in Agatha Christie mysteries,” he said

“Are you on board with this being a fra at him