“is going to kill me someday.”
Jesse nodded.
“Kids?” he said.
“I sent them upstairs,” Carole said.
“They’re frightened of him too.”
“Anthony,” Jesse said. “You got
kids?”, DeAngelo nodded.
“Three,” he said.
“Okay,‘ go upstairs and find the kids and do what you can to make them feel safe.”
“Hey, you got no right talking to my
kids,” Jo Jo said.
Jesse paid no attention to him. He nodded at DeAngelo and DeAngelo headed for the stairs.
“Did he say he was going to kill you,
ma’am?” Jesse said.
“He says that all the time. And he’s not my husband.
We’re divorced.“
“Maybe you’re divorced, slut,
I’m not,” Jo Jo said.
“You’re my wife until I say
you’re not.”
“Can’t you people do anything about
him?” Carole said.
“Yes, ma’am,” Jesse said.
“We otherwise assault you?”
can. Did he hit you or
“Not this time. I called the cops the minute he showed up.”
“Did you invite him in?”
“No fucking way,” Carole said.
“I tried to lock him out but he’s still got a key.”
“It’s my house,” Jo Jo said. He
was smiling like a man patiently indulging some children.
“It’s my wife. I’ll come and go as I
fucking please.”
“Did he force his way in?”
“Yes. I tried to hold ‘the door, but
he’s—look at him—what am I supposed to do against him?”
“You did what you should have done,
ma’am,” Jesse said.
“How about you, Slim?” Jo Jo said to
Jesse. “What are you supposed to do against me?”
“But he didn’t assault you?”
“Not this time. He didn’t have time. He beat the shit out of me last time he came. He raped me once. I shoulda gone to the cops then, but we weren’t divorced yet, and… you know conjugal r/ghts… and the
kids… I me, an how do they feel, everybody talking about how their father raped their mother?”
Her voice trailed off.
q/‘ 83u 65
“There was no rape and you know it, a husband can’t rape his wife,” Jo Jo said. “You
didn’t go to the cops because you loved it.”
As they argued, Jesse nodded, almost absently, as if he were thinking of something else.
“We probably don’t have an assault charge here,” Jesse said to Simpson. “We might get forced entry, even though he had a key. We obviously have him for violating the restraining order.”
Jo Jo laughed.
