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. Listen to a show and call upfor an appointment?Van Dyne thought about that. It s not what I d have predicted, but whoknows? What did Koppel say about treating Flora? Haven t spoken to her yet, said Milo. Maybe you ll have better luck than I did. Van Dyne s hands dropped to hislap. I called her a few weeks after the murder, when I found out Flora hadbeen seeing her.I m not even sure what I wanted.Some memory of Flora, Iguess.Maybe some sympathy, it was a horrendous time.But boy did I dial aPage 55ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlwrong number.She was anything but sympathetic.Said confidentiality preventedher from speaking to me and hung up.Very curt.Not in the least bittherapeutic.*Driving away from the school, Milo frowned and lit up a panatella. Sensitiveguy. He bug you in some way? Not in the criminal sense, but I wouldn t want to hang out with him.Toodelicate. He frowned. Working at a parole office where the cons made hernervous.One reinterview and we ve got info that wasn t in Lorraine s notes. Lorraine and McKinley weren t impressed with the parole job because a yearhad gone by. I m more easily impressed.*We returned to the station, where he accessed Flora Newsome s stateemployment records and located the parole branch where she d clerked for fivemonths.Not downtown, the North Hollywood office.A half-hour drive from themurder scene.I said,  A con notices her, follows her home, stakes out her apartment.Breaking in wouldn t be much of a challenge for a pro. Ye olde failure to rehabilitate, he said. Wonder what Dr.Koppel thinksabout that. He stood, stretched, sat down hard.I said,  There s another possibility.The con didn t follow Flora home, shealready knew him.That s why there was no sign of a break-in.Why he didn tneed to bring a knife.Maybe what brought Flora to therapy was more thanadjustment problems. Nice, old-fashioned girl getting it on with a lowlife? She kept her therapy from her boyfriend, could ve had other secrets. Fooling with a con, he said. Forbidden pleasures.Guilt took her toKoppel. He stared at me. You do weave a web.*He walked me through the station and out to the street, glanced at his Timex. Think I ll have a go at Koppel.Solo, seeing as you two have issues. Issues. I smiled. Hey, I m walkin the walk, talkin the talk.*Later that evening, he called, and said,  Did you know shrinks don t have tohold on to files? Koppel has no records of Flora Newsome s treatment.Page 56ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html Straight into the shredder a month after Newsome died.Koppel says it sroutine, any closed case gets trashed.Otherwise, she runs into a  storageproblem. Also, she claims it helps safeguard confidentiality because no onecan  happen upon the chart. Did she remember anything about Newsome? Even less than she remembered for Ogden. I treat so many patients,Lieutenant.  But this patient was murdered. Same difference. She gave you a hard time, I said. Not on the surface.She was superfriendly, nice smile, easy manner.Sendsher regards, by the way.Says you re a real gentleman. I m touched.She give you anything to work with? She said she couldn t be sure, but she thought Newsome had come in for anxiety. I decided to be direct and brought up the possibility of a conboyfriend.No reaction.If she was hiding something, she s Oscar quality. What did she have to say about two patients murdered in fourteen months? She looked a little shaken when I phrased it that way, but said she d neverthought of it that way, her patient load was so huge, it really didn t meananything.My impression is the lady s got a busy life, doesn t spend too muchtime focused on any single thing, including her patients.The whole interviewwas on the run.I caught her leaving the building and walked her to herMercedes.She was scheduled to tape a show, and her cell phone kept ringing [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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