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After the interview, Caroline and Dexter sat down in her office and tried to process the fallout.
‘It’s bizarre,’ she said. ‘It’s almost like there are two instincts there. There’s the one that says of course he did it, he’s lied about being at the scene until we proved otherwise, he lied about not even leaving the house, he lied about not being in contact with Martin, so what else is he lying about? And that’s before we get onto the whole Russell Speakman thing. But then there’s that other instinct you get from spending time with him, and that tells me he didn’t do it.’
‘He could just be very convincing,’ Dexter said. ‘If we’re talking genuine psychopathy or something along those lines, they’re experts at pulling the wool over people’s eyes.’
‘True, but I don’t think so. I’ve met e
