MR. JONES: It's hard to talk about... so cruel... You think you know someone and then... But the fiteverything started to fit.
Cindy's history. Her obsession with health. The techniques she must have used... disgusting.
bET. STURGIS: Such as?
MR. JONES: Smothering to simulate asphyxia. Cindy was always the one who got up when Cassie cried-she only called me when things got bad.
Then those terrible GIgastrointestinal-problems and fevers. Once I saw something brown in Cassie's baby bottle. Cindy said it was organic apple juice and I believed her. Now I realize it must have been some sort of fecal matter. Poisoning Cassie with her own filth so that she'd get an infection but it would be an autologous one- selfinlection, so that no foreign organism would show up on the blood tests.
Disgusting, isn't it?
bET. STURGIS: That it is, Prof What's your theory on the seizures?
MR. JONES: Low blood sugar, obviously. Overdose of insulin. Cindy knew all about insulin, because of her aunt. I guess I should have figured it out-she talked about her aunt's diabetes all the time, wouldn't let Cassie have any junk food but it really didn't sink in. I guess I really didn't want to believe it, but... the evidence. I mean, at some point one simply has to stop denying, doesn't one? But
still... Cindy had-has-her frailties, and sure, I was furious with her for her sexual acting-out. But her own child..
bET. SrvRGIS: Hers, only.
MR. JONES: Yes, but that's beside the point. Who wants to see any child suffer?
bET. STURGIS: So you went over to the university and pulled medical articles out of the SAP data bank.
MR. JONES: (unintelligible) bET. SrvRGIS: What's that?
MR. JONES: No more questions, okay? I'm getting a little tired.
bET. STURGIS: bid I say something that offended you?
MR. JONES: Tony, make him stop.
MR. T0~RI~: Session ended.
bET. STURGIS: Sure. Absolutely. But I just don't get it.
We're having a good talk, all convivial, and then all of a sudden I say something about the SAP data bank that great computerized system they've got, where you can pull articles right off the computer and Xerox them? Something just click about that, Professor? Like the fact that professors can open an account and get an itemized monthly bill?
MR. TOKARIK: My client and I have no idea what you're talking aboubET.
S'rURGIS: Steve?
bET. MARTINEZ: Here you go.
MR. TOKARIK: Ah, more tricks from the police bag.
bET. STURGIS: Here. You look at it, Counselor. The articles with the red stars are on sudden infant death. Check the dates your client and Ms. Kirkash pulled em out of the computer.
Six months before Chad died. The blue ones are on Munchausen syndrome.
Check those dates and you'll see he pulled those two months after Cassie was born-long before her symptoms started. To me that spells premeditation, don't you think, Counselor? Though I have enjoyed the little comedy routine he's just done for us maybe the fellas on cell block will enjoy it, too. Hell, maybe you can get him off High-Power and into the main population, Counselor. So he can teach those sociopaths some sociology what do you say?
What's that?
