Law School Murders: Fire Up the Tablet

“I’m Marcus Singletary and we’re back on the ‘cast with my guest Professor Kim Jergensen. She rose to national fame with her solution to the QR murders in Wilmington, Delaware. She may have courted infamy with two separate murders that we were discussing. Why did you want to go to the Academy?”

Kim cleared her throat. I had in the back of my mind Marine, detective, federal agent. It went in that order but I didn’t expect that to happen as the events unfolded.”

“You’ve said in your book that ‘Naomi was disagreeable but I knew how to handle her.’ What started the rift between you two?”

“She just pestered me the entire time that we trained. It was immature stuff. Little slices of stuff like trying make me stumble. That sort of thing.”

“Did you report any of this behavior?”

“No.”

“Why not?”

“It was little trivial stuff that didn’t need to be noted.”

“And then you both wind up in the jail installation….”

“Yes. She had been fighting me and I finally let go and let my fists utter words I couldn’t say.”

“You’re there for how long?”

“All told about six months.”

“And in that time Zeta Sanchez goes into Naomi’s cell and brutally murders her. Are you stunned?”

“I was totally astonished. I thought Naomi was a tough girl and she’d pull out of it.”

“Then everyone’s eyes fell on you….”

“Yes. The entire world picked up on the story and it just kept going snd going. When I went to court, I’d never seen so many cameras and smartphones and microphones and flashing lights.”

“Did you think this has to be the worst of it.”

“Yes I did. Until Susan Hatzfeld was found dead in her cell.”

“What was it like to investigate the very murders you were accused of?”

The most gifted surrealist painter or filmmaker couldn’t depict what was going on around me. There was exhumation, the lackadaisical ME, and the court case. I was caught up in the whirlwind. It seemed like none of it would ever just stop. I was being carted to my hotel.”

“And you write that you had an ankle monitor. What was that like?”

“It was better than a cell but it might as well had been a cell the way I couldn’t just go out on the town.”

“Now, you chased down a perp and that violated the boundaries. Explain how that happened.”

“Sure I—,”

Then, the lights went out and the two of them remained in the studio until they flickered on again.

“I’m just going to fix—aah. There we go. Okay, we can move past the perp thing. Nos, with this book, what are you planning to say?”

“I just want people, particularly women of color in whatever career they choose, to always be on guard. To be wary of the people around you and to always have integrity and be honest with yourself.”

“And on that note, we’re going to have to leave it right there. I’d like to thank my guest new author Professor Kim Jergensen whose latest book is titled Murder Excursion: A trip from solving murders to being accused. You can pick it up wherever books are sold. Thank you again.”

“Thanks,” Kim replied. When she got back to her house, pundits were already picking through her words from the interview. Talking heads still claimed that she had killed the two women. Kim snickered and shook her head. She made tea and flipped through the news channels to see if any of it was worth watching. The channel closest to objectivity was her home Channel 30 which she had to fire up the tablet to watch.