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But Shepard wanted to hear from them himself.

Now, Shepard had been told that Kem and her mother were estranged.

But even though he went in with some idea that this interaction could be odd, Shepard was still really caught off guard by the way Cricket was acting.

It was, like, way over the top.

As Joni welcomed Shepard inside and offered him a seat on the couch, you know, she was crying.

Her reaction to the death of her sister seemed very genuine.

But Cricket was not crying or showing any signs of being sad.

Instead, she was just furious and not about the murder or about losing her child or about the fact that police had not made an arrest yet.

She was furious about her child's life insurance policy, which apparently Cam had not added her to as a beneficiary, which meant that Cricket was not going to be paid any money despite her child being killed.

You know, as Shepard's seeing this, he thought about how Kurt had insisted in his interrogation that Cricket was a horrible person, that she was evil.

Now, at the time, Shepard had not really taken that seriously because he figured Kurt was trying to throw suspicion off of himself.

And lots of people don't like their mother-in-laws.

But now he was reconsidering.

He felt like he was witnessing someone who could be just as bad as they were described to be.

And then, when Shepard actually asked Cricket about her relationship with her now-deceased daughter, Cricket went,

off, but not about her relationship really with Kem, but more about Kurt and how Kurt had ruined Kem's life.

She said Kurt was a terrible partner for Kem and that he had destroyed the best relationship she ever had, which Cricket said was with Dale Fosdick, the father of Kem's son.

She also said that Kurt had destroyed her, Cricket's, relationship with Kem too.

She said that she and her daughter used to talk every day, but once Kurt was in the picture, she had been forbidden to call the house at all.

Now, to Shepard, Cricket seemed completely scattered, bouncing from one subject to another and just mad about everything.