The woman sitting twenty feet away from me, reading a book, was Beth Greer. / And in 1977, she’d been Claire Lake’s most famous murderer.
-- Narrator (Chapter 4)

Importance: Shea is both shocked and thrilled when she realizes that Beth Greer is sitting in the waiting room at the doctor’s office where she works. Shea follows Beth and asks her permission to interview Beth about the murders. Beth later agrees to the interview.

Of course they did. I told you, I had tits and an ass, so I wasn’t a real person. A girl who had lost her parents couldn’t possibly be spiraling, unable to cope. Easier to write that she’s a slut. It sells more papers.
-- Beth (Chapter 11)

Importance: Beth explains to Shea that part of her problem came because of the way the journalists portrayed her in their writing and their photographs. She indicates that one photo of her, taken the...