Chapter 13 Summary

It is Monday morning of the second week of the trial and the jurors enter the jury room, dreading yet another week of testimony. Stella Hulic arrives late, looks visibly shaken and immediately disappears into the smoking room. Chatting with Angel Weese, another smoker, Easter suggests they both go down for a smoke. In the smoking room, he mentions that he was followed over the weekend, which leads Stella to recount what happened to her. Lou Dell then knocks on the door and the jurors enter the courtroom for more testimony from Dr Hilo Kilvan.

For Wendall Rohr, much of the weekend has been spent tracking down the origin of the fax he had received on Friday. They ascertained that it had come from a truck stop near Hattiesburg, and a clerk gave them a weak description of a young woman who had...