"How do you know Adriana had a drug problem?" Sharon asked Sam DaCosta. "I did not say drugs. She was addicted to me." Sam DaCosta chuckled and smirked with satisfaction. "The girl was a good actress." "Were you not angry that she was having s*x with you and taking you to court?" Sharon asked him. DaCosta shrugged his shoulders. "It did not make any difference to me. She would not be able to go far with all that. We both knew it." A young white woman challenging a black guy who was having a lengthy criminal history in court? Why wouldn't the case go far? Sharon wondered. "What makes you say that?" Sharon asked him. DaCosta leaned across the table and whispered, "Because Adriana never really wanted what she said she wanted. That is probably why she was in Maury County. She was looking

