bET. S'rURGIS: Dawn Herbert do that?
MR. JONES: Absolutely. That folderol you read was absolute fantasy.
She was a dope addict when I found her. I tried to help her and she paid me back with paranoia.
bET. 'sTURGIS: What about Kristie Kirkash?
MR. JONES: (unintelligible) bET. STURGis: What's that, Prof?
bET. MARTINEZ: Mailboxes Plus, Agoura, box number 1498.
MR. JONES: That was for research.
bET. SrvRGIS: What kind of research?
MR. JONES: I've been thinking of a possible project: pornography research recurrent images in an overly organized society as a form of ritual. Obviously, I didn't want material sent to my home or my campus office-you get on pervert lists, and I didn't want a flood of garbage coming in.
So Kristie rented the POB for me.
bET. STURGIS: Any reason you didn't rent it yourself?
MR. JONES: I was busy, Kristie lived out there, and it just seemed convenient.
bET. SrvRGIS: Any reason you rented it under the name of Ralph Benedict, M.D.? A physician who's been dead for two and a half years and just happened to have treated your wife's aunt for diabetes?
MR. TOKARIK: Don't answer that.
bET. STURGIS: Any reason you had medical apparatus shipped out to that post office box using Ralph Benedict, M.D.'s name and medical license number?
MR. TOKARIK: Don't answer that.
bET. 5TURGIS: Any reason you had insulin and Insuject insulin-delivery systems, such as the one we found in your hand in your daughter's hospital room, shipped to that post office box in Ralph Benedict, M.D.'s name?
MR. TOKARIK: Don't answer that.
MR. JONES: Ridiculous. Cindy knew about the POB, too. I gave her my spare key. She must have used it for that.
DET. STURGIS: She says she didn't.
MR. JONES: She's lying.
bET. STURGIS: Okay, but even so, why'd you use Benedict's name to get the box? It's your name on the application form.
MR. TOKARIK: Don't answer that.
MR. JONES: I want to I want to clear my name, Tony. In all honesty, Detective, I can't really answer that one. It must have been subconscious. Cindy must have mentioned Benedict's name-yes, I'm sure she did. As you said, he was her aunt's doctor, she talked about him a
lot, and it stuck in my mind so when I needed a name for the box, it just popped into my head.
bET. SrvRGIS: Why'd you need an alias in the first place?
MR. JONES: I already explained that. For the pomographysome of the stuff I received was really disgusting.
bET. STURGIS: Your wife says she knew nothing about the box.
MR. JONES: Of course she does. She's lying. Really, Detective, it's all a matter of context-seeing things in a different light, using a new lens.
