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My bad mood caused me a fitful night and continued into the next day. I felt bad about how I had treated Carrie. I owed her an apology. Most of all I was saddened by Toby’s death. We had our differences but I liked him and considered him a friend. I hadn’t expected our friendship to be so brief and end like it did. I also thought Jackie’s book, Total Stranger, to be the perfect prescription for framing Toby with the murder. I didn’t want to re-think it and consider it as the script for Toby to follow and kill his wife. As a psychiatrist I knew the mentally healthy adult is one that faces and deals with reality. I had to accept the validity of Toby’s confession and believe he killed his wife.
The holidays did little to diminish the media frenzy about the Jacqueline Summerfield murder u
