Dr. Jeffrey Smalldon

He had read my book and he was the physician who, when the first person on the crime scene ran out screaming in the hallway,

He was the physician nearby who went in and pronounced the first woman dead.

So he was right there on the crime scene before the police arrived.

And he said, Jeff, would you be interested in me writing down memories of that day?

I said, absolutely.

So he did.

And he sent them to me.

And.

I was a long way from being a forensic psychologist at that point.

And even when I became one, I was no expert in crime scene analysis.

And I certainly didn't see that crime scene.

And I didn't even see photos of that crime scene.

But his name was Ed Boop.

Ed said, you know what?

The first thing I noticed when I went into the lab that day is that there were no defense wounds on Joyce.

There were no signs that she tried to defend herself.

And she was positioned on the floor like in a fetal position.

And there were all these stab wounds across her upper chest and neck, like more than 20.

And the first thing I thought was there had to have been two people.

Somebody had to have held her from behind for all those stab wounds to be made from the front without her struggling.