A Year In Pictures Following The Break-Up

I got a call recently at KunkleCo from an elderly couple trying to get ahold of a Scott Peterson. They clearly had the wrong number. For a while I started to suspect it was a prank call because they seemed almost over-the-top old and crazy but also because of the name Scott Peterson. It's probalby a common enough name, but it's also the name of a man who was convicted of killing his wife.

N had a bit of a fixation on the Peterson saga, and I never really understood how she could watch so many Dateline and Primetime Live shows about women being murdered by the men they loved.

Once, driving back from a trip, exiting the highway, and close to home, she told me that she'd been watching a special about the Peterson trial and they played some recordings of him talking on the phone. "And I realized, he sounds like you."

"What are you saying?" I asked.

"The way you talk on the phone, he talked in the same way. There was a similar... quality."

"Wait," I said, "Are you saying you think I'm going to murder you?"

"No," she said, "I know you're not going to murder me."

But as I drove on I could feel her looking at me from the passenger seat, after all these years, still trying to figure me out, like a true-life mystery.

# posted by Arnie : 7:12 PM