Summary

Chapter 13 takes place in the present. Libby and Lyle drive out to meet Krissi. They find her working at a strip club. She agrees to talk to them, having no idea who Libby is. Lyle starts to grill her, but Libby tries to take over and control the conversation, sensing that Lyle is making Krissi uncomfortable.

Krissi explains that Ben tricked her as a child and frequently molested her in the janitor's closet where he had an altar dedicated to Satan. Libby thinks back to how everyone suddenly had a story about Ben being a Satanist after he was convicted. Krissi says the day she told her father about it he had gone driving around the town looking for Ben. She laments that the family might have been spared if her father had found Ben.

She’s no longer in touch with her father...