Tristan, Nathan, and Arlie did a lot of positioning and posing in order to make the grisly scene at the crossroads look like a murder/suicide. The gruesome task of pulling the rope so that Raber"s limp body was suspended from the tree branch took all three of them, each perched precariously on the ladder. They put the ladder under his feet, making sure that it would have reached high enough, and then kicked it over, hoping that it would look as if Raber had kicked it himself.
They left Ioni where she was. It was obvious that she had been murdered. Nathan and Arlie were pretty broken up about her demise. Tristan sympathized with their horror and sense of loss when they returned with Raber"s car and the ladder only to find that they had missed everything. He tried to relay the events to th
