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Rebecca spent the rest of the night and well into the morning at the Tiburon police station with Vargas and the local police. Since it wasn’t her case, she could do no more than listen and watch from behind a one-way glass as Vargas questioned Carlyle and Simone Boudin.
Vargas first interviewed Carlyle.
“None of this is my fault,” Carlyle began. “It all happened because of Simone.”
“You’re saying Simone Boudin was the mastermind?” Vargas asked.
“Yes. We met when she was doing tarot readings in a coffee shop in Sausalito. She told me I would be rich and famous one day so, of course, I listened to her. Then, we kept meeting. One day she told me how she had been a professional safecracker.”
“She was a thief?” Vargas asked.
Carlyle chucked in a way to show he could understand Vargas’
