Ash Kelley

It eventually became clear to Marianne that the detectives were more interested in her relationship with Kitty than they were finding the man responsible for murdering her.

And the more they pressed her, the less comfortable she became.

The other thing, it's like, go ask around from the apartment.

You're aggressively talking to the neighbors.

They're going to tell you they saw a man.

She said, I didn't want to talk to the cops, especially not Burns, but they harassed me for six hours trying to get me to say something bad about Kitty.

Finally, they got me to admit it.

Okay, we were lesbians.

Decades later, Marianne would still regret revealing that information.

She said, I was always upset with myself for revealing that.

What right did they have to know?

It's true what right did they have to know, but when you're pressed for six hours, I'm surprised you didn't say more than that.

Yeah.

Now, in the days that followed, Marion shut herself up in her apartment while more than a few neighbors began keeping their distance from her.

Police officers and detectives continued coming around to ask prying questions about their relationship that felt more like accusations than anything else.

A few days later at the funeral, things only got worse as Kitty's parents rejected Marion entirely and turned their back on her.

That's shitty.

Kitty's brother Vincent said, my mother couldn't handle it.

We read about it in the papers, the gruesome description.

A few days after the funeral, the police finally took Marion's name off the suspect list.