Chapter 14
Jacksonville, FL
THE SHERIFF RETURNED to my office a few minutes after Janet and Carl left and asked to see the file. He read through a couple of the interviews and said, “I’m glad she didn’t want to read this stuff.”
“Yes, Sir,” I said. “There are a lot of details in there that she doesn’t need to see, but her husband seemed to handle it well.”
“Yes, and most of the time he handles her as best he can. I’ve never seen her quite like she was when I walked up to your door.”
“All I could think of to do was just sit there and take it until she ran down, which she finally did, just like she did the first time.”
“The first time?”
“Thirty seconds after she sat down in that chair, she took off like a rocket, or as they say she went ballistic.”
He smiled at the image and said, “D
