Alvin Melleth

It was surreal to think that someone's execution might depend on this.

Montoya does not text back.

The lawyers leave El Paso.

As the year ends, Stephanie's last day at KVIA is coming up.

The holidays are approaching, which means, realistically, Greg and Jeremy are going to lose precious days of work before the execution.

Greg wants to keep pushing ahead and decides he might as well do the interview.

Stephanie sets it up, and they tape an interview over Zoom two days after Christmas.

A week later, Alvin and I join a weekly video call with the whole defense team, around 10 people.

There's some chitchat about the holidays, and then Greg jumps in with the first agenda item.

I gave this Zoom interview to Stephanie... Greg reports that the interview seemed to go, you know, okay, pretty well.

But then Stephanie sent him a text.

that she was doing on her computer, where she was doing... Apparently, the video recording of their interview got messed up somehow.

She was going to ask the IT department to look at her computer, but now, quote, they're saying since it's my last week, they have to wipe it and take it back anyway as part of the off-boarding process.

She adds, quote, I'm sorry I couldn't help.

Greg writes back, Oh my goodness, I'm sorry to hear that.

Is there anything I can do?

He offers to redo the interview.

There might not be enough time to get it on TV, but maybe she could talk about it on her podcast?

I assess Greg's reaction to all of this as 20% disappointment and 80% befuddlement.

Jeremy, on the other hand, is 100% not buying it.