I said fifty up front and we finally agreed on twenty-seven five. The next day he met me up at Barnsdale Park in Hollywood and gave me the money in cash. I told him he'd better come up with at least two hundred thousand more by the end of the month. He started crying again and said he'd do his best.
Then he asked me to forgive him. I left and used the money to buy a new car because my old one was broken down, and in L.A. you're nothing without a good car. I put Chad Jones's chart in a locker at the airportLAX, United Airlines, Number ~6~~-and the next day I quit the hospital.
So now I'm waiting till the end of the month and writing this down as collateral. I want to be rich and I want to be a doctor. I deserve all that. But just in case he tries to renege, I'm leaving this floppy in a locked drawer each night, then collecting it in the morning.
There's also a copy in my locker at school. If you're reading it, I'm probably in Dutch, but so what. I've got no other alternatives.
March 7, 1989
Dawn Rose Rockwell Kent Herbert bET. SrvRGIS: That's it.
MR. TOKARIK: Are we supposed to be impressed? Decoded hocus-pocus?
You know this is totally inadmissible.
bET. STURGIS: If you say so.
MR. TOKARIK: Come on, Chip, let's get out of here-Chip?
MR. JONES: Uh-huh.
bET. SryRGIS: Sure you wanna go? There's more.
MR. TOKA~I~: We've heard quite enough.
bET. Srv~GIS: Suit yourself, Counselor. But don't waste your time asking for bail. b. A.'s filing Murder One as we speak.
MR. TOKAR]K: Murder One! That's outrageous. Who's the victim?
bET. STURGIS: Dawn Herbert.
MR. TO~ARiK: Murder One? On the basis of that fantasy?
bET. STURGIS: On the basis of eyewitness testimony, Counselor.
Collaborator testimony. Upstanding citizen named Karl Sobran. You do have a thing for your students, don't you, Prof.
MR. TOKARIK: Who?
bET. STURGIS: Ask the prof.
MR. TOKARIK: I'm asking you, Detective.
bET. STURGIS: Karl Edward Sobran. We've got a windbreaker with blood on it and a confession implicating your client. And Sobran's credentials are impeccable. Bachelor's degree in interpersonal violence from Soledad, postgraduate training from numerous other institutions. Your client hired him to kill Ms. Herbert and make it look like a sex thing.
Not much of a challenge, because Sobran likes to get violent with women did time for rape and assault. His last paid vacation was for larceny and he spent it up in the Ventura County Jail. That's where old Professor Chip, here, met him.
Volunteer tutoring-a class project his sociology students were doing.
Sobran got an A. Old Chip sent a letter recommending parole, calling Sobran graduate-school material and promising to keep him under his wing. Sobran got out and oo enrolled at West Valley Community College as a sociology major. What he did to Dawn- What was that, Prof?
Fieldwork?
MR. TOKARIK: This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of bET.
