Page 50 of The Best Lawyer
“There was no evidence that this person or any other than Katy Loomis was involved in Tom Loomis’s murder.”
“And you didn’t look for any,” I said.
“I didn’t say that.”
“Okay,” I said. “So where is your witness statement from Sugar Bear?”
She sighed with exasperation. “There isn’t one. I don’t even know who this person is or if it’s a real person at all.”
“You never spoke to Tom’s employers or coworkers at WDTN either, did you?”
“No.”
“So it would surprise you if you learned that the station manager at WTDN filed a police report regarding disturbing behavior from this obsessed fan toward their on-air talent?”
I had a copy of the police report in my hand.
“It doesn’t surprise me, no,” she said. “And it wouldn’t surprise me if no action was ever taken on it. Am I right?”
“But that isn’t the point, is it? The point is, you never once asked the question, did you?”
“No,” she said. “I did not pursue every single crackpot that might have sent a creepy email to an on-air personality. No.”
“You didn’t pursue even one, did you?”
“No,” she said.
“So you felt you could overlook it, right?”
“Objection,” Addison said, his voice weary.
“I think this is a legitimate line of inquiry, Mr. Quick,” Judge Castor said.
“Well?” I said to Detective DePaul.
“I overlooked nothing. But this wasn’t a viable lead. It wasn’t reasonable to suspect anyone other than Katy Loomis was involved in what happened to her husband. I had overwhelming physical evidence against her as well as an eyewitness.”
“Let’s talk about that physical evidence for a second,” I said. “You testified Katy had Tom’s blood on her. That the knife had Tom’s blood and Katy’s touch DNA on it. Plus her fingerprints.”
“Yes.”
“And you concluded that meant Katy stabbed Tom, isn’t that right?”
“Of course.”
“Of course,” I said. “But touch DNA and fingerprints doesn’t mean she stabbed him. In fact, anyone who picked up that knife could have left their DNA on it, isn’t that right?”
“Oh, that’s right. Except they didn’t. There were no other prints or DNA on it.”
“You wouldn’t expect that if someone had been holding that knife wearing a glove though, would you?”
“No.”
“I mean, you held that knife yourself, didn’t you? While wearing latex gloves?”
“Yes.”
“And your DNA and fingerprints weren’t on the knifeeither, were they?”
