hide-and-seek
15
NASDAQ rival
20
In favor of
21
Old Valerie Harper sitcom
26
Country singer Gibbs
28
Major work
29
Nonetheless
30
Reveals, on Halloween
31
Shipping route
32
Fly guy
34
“___ Fair” (Don Cornell song)
35
Premeditation, say
37
Obeys the periodontist
38
Helpers from abroad
39
Itsy
41
Director Craven
42
For all to see
43
Larry King employer
48
In mint condition
50
Barbie’s beau
51
“Steady ___ goes”
53
Napoleon’s isle
54
Sealed shut with a hammer
57
On pins and needles
58
“Well, ___ -di-dah!”
59
Seder container
64
Running on fumes
65
Teased teenagers
67
One-million link?
68
“Pygmalion” playwright
69
“Mi ___ es su …”
70
High point
72
Longfellow’s “The Bell of ___”
73
The other Van Gogh
75
Tales of the tribe
76
Multivitamin supplement
77
Sun spot?
79
___ Harbour, FL
80
It makes Paul a girl?
81
Ouija board reply
“Try the girlfriend.”
“Okay. Cindy Tambourine.” Sherry did a search. “Absolutely nothing.”
“What?”
“No hits at all.”
“How can that be? She was in the
Gazette
.”
“Yeah, twenty years ago. I hate to break it to you, Cora, but twenty-year-old Bakerhaven papers aren’t going to be on-line.”
“So the woman just ceased to exist. I wonder what happened to her.”
“Why don’t you ask your client?”
“My client?”
“I don’t mean your client. I mean the killer.”
“Do you have to call him ‘the killer’?”
“A jury did.”
“Yeah.” Cora pointed to the computer. “Google him.”
“What?”
“Darryl Daigue. Google Darryl Daigue. I want to see if there’s anything at all.”
“There should be.”
“Oh, yeah? If twenty-year-old papers aren’t on-line, they missed the trial.”
“Well, let’s give it a try.” Sherry typed in
Darryl Daigue
, hit ENTER . “There you are. A hundred and seventeen hits.”
“A hundred and seventeen?”
“They won’t all be what you want. You’ll get stuff like, ‘Hoop star Darryl Dawkins performed charitable work for the Daigue Foundation.’ ”
“How the hell do you know about Darryl Dawkins? You don’t like basketball, and you’re not old enough.”
“I do crossword puzzles, Cora. I know everybody. Let’s see. Here’s a book called
Lifer
by A. E. Greenhouse,based on the author’s interviews with several life prisoners, including Darryl Daigue.”
Cora snorted. “Having interviewed Darryl Daigue, I wouldn’t expect much.”
“Here’s an article on sex crimes, by a Lester Moffat. Sort of unfair, since the sex charge was dropped. I wonder if Lester mentions that.”
“I don’t care if he does or not. Darryl Daigue shouldn’t be in the article. How old is it?”
“Just last year.”
“And they’re still calling it a sex crime? That is so unfair.”
“Then you’ll love this one.”
“What is it?”
“Article is called ‘Death Row.’ ”
“Death Row? Darryl Daigue isn’t on Death Row.”
“Yeah, that seems to be the point of the article. How the system keeps the scum of the earth like Darryl Daigue alive for years at a considerable expense to the state, while the man has no hope of redemption, no possibility of parole, no future prospects outside of a ten-by-ten cell, so why not give the gentleman the lethal injection he so richly deserves?”
“Yeah, that would be just great until a DNA test showed he was innocent.”
“It’s not going to happen. Anita Dryer wasn’t raped.”
“Talk about unfair,” Cora said. “The guy gets blamed for raping the girl, but he didn’t, so DNA can’t set him free.”
“Yeah,” Sherry said. “If only he hadn’t killed her. That’s probably where he made his big mistake.”
“Nasty girl. Okay, smarty-pants. What was Darryl Dawkins’s nickname?”
“Chocolate Thunder. Want the computer?”
“Please.”
Cora sat down, scrolled through the articles. Which were, in Cora’s humble estimation, depressing, inaccurate, and annoyingly uninformative. Only one in four was actually about Darryl Daigue. Of
15
NASDAQ rival
20
In favor of
21
Old Valerie Harper sitcom
26
Country singer Gibbs
28
Major work
29
Nonetheless
30
Reveals, on Halloween
31
Shipping route
32
Fly guy
34
“___ Fair” (Don Cornell song)
35
Premeditation, say
37
Obeys the periodontist
38
Helpers from abroad
39
Itsy
41
Director Craven
42
For all to see
43
Larry King employer
48
In mint condition
50
Barbie’s beau
51
“Steady ___ goes”
53
Napoleon’s isle
54
Sealed shut with a hammer
57
On pins and needles
58
“Well, ___ -di-dah!”
59
Seder container
64
Running on fumes
65
Teased teenagers
67
One-million link?
68
“Pygmalion” playwright
69
“Mi ___ es su …”
70
High point
72
Longfellow’s “The Bell of ___”
73
The other Van Gogh
75
Tales of the tribe
76
Multivitamin supplement
77
Sun spot?
79
___ Harbour, FL
80
It makes Paul a girl?
81
Ouija board reply
“Try the girlfriend.”
“Okay. Cindy Tambourine.” Sherry did a search. “Absolutely nothing.”
“What?”
“No hits at all.”
“How can that be? She was in the
Gazette
.”
“Yeah, twenty years ago. I hate to break it to you, Cora, but twenty-year-old Bakerhaven papers aren’t going to be on-line.”
“So the woman just ceased to exist. I wonder what happened to her.”
“Why don’t you ask your client?”
“My client?”
“I don’t mean your client. I mean the killer.”
“Do you have to call him ‘the killer’?”
“A jury did.”
“Yeah.” Cora pointed to the computer. “Google him.”
“What?”
“Darryl Daigue. Google Darryl Daigue. I want to see if there’s anything at all.”
“There should be.”
“Oh, yeah? If twenty-year-old papers aren’t on-line, they missed the trial.”
“Well, let’s give it a try.” Sherry typed in
Darryl Daigue
, hit ENTER . “There you are. A hundred and seventeen hits.”
“A hundred and seventeen?”
“They won’t all be what you want. You’ll get stuff like, ‘Hoop star Darryl Dawkins performed charitable work for the Daigue Foundation.’ ”
“How the hell do you know about Darryl Dawkins? You don’t like basketball, and you’re not old enough.”
“I do crossword puzzles, Cora. I know everybody. Let’s see. Here’s a book called
Lifer
by A. E. Greenhouse,based on the author’s interviews with several life prisoners, including Darryl Daigue.”
Cora snorted. “Having interviewed Darryl Daigue, I wouldn’t expect much.”
“Here’s an article on sex crimes, by a Lester Moffat. Sort of unfair, since the sex charge was dropped. I wonder if Lester mentions that.”
“I don’t care if he does or not. Darryl Daigue shouldn’t be in the article. How old is it?”
“Just last year.”
“And they’re still calling it a sex crime? That is so unfair.”
“Then you’ll love this one.”
“What is it?”
“Article is called ‘Death Row.’ ”
“Death Row? Darryl Daigue isn’t on Death Row.”
“Yeah, that seems to be the point of the article. How the system keeps the scum of the earth like Darryl Daigue alive for years at a considerable expense to the state, while the man has no hope of redemption, no possibility of parole, no future prospects outside of a ten-by-ten cell, so why not give the gentleman the lethal injection he so richly deserves?”
“Yeah, that would be just great until a DNA test showed he was innocent.”
“It’s not going to happen. Anita Dryer wasn’t raped.”
“Talk about unfair,” Cora said. “The guy gets blamed for raping the girl, but he didn’t, so DNA can’t set him free.”
“Yeah,” Sherry said. “If only he hadn’t killed her. That’s probably where he made his big mistake.”
“Nasty girl. Okay, smarty-pants. What was Darryl Dawkins’s nickname?”
“Chocolate Thunder. Want the computer?”
“Please.”
Cora sat down, scrolled through the articles. Which were, in Cora’s humble estimation, depressing, inaccurate, and annoyingly uninformative. Only one in four was actually about Darryl Daigue. Of
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