Summary

In Chapter 16, Blakinger expounds upon her history of obsessive list making and then shares some events that still haunt her today. The chapter hearkens back to Tompkins County Jail in July 2011. A woman named Becca was pulled out of her cell. Her boyfriend was smuggling Suboxone into the jail via his kisses, and the rest of the inmates guessed that this subterfuge was the cause of Becca's interrogation. Yet the guards came to strip-search all of the women, and they told Blakinger that opiate residue was found on her windowsill. Blakinger knew this was impossible because she had no drugs. She urged the guards to drug test her so that she could prove her innocence.

Eventually, Blakinger, Sam, Becca, and Ashleigh were led away to a smaller cell block. The guards regularly tore through their belongings, and the women were terrified of being...