After the press conference on the court steps, I found Sammy's girlfriend Whinny Whipper and asked her what she thought about the arrest. She said the prosecution office had been approaching her about rehearsing some things they wanted her to say at the trial.  They also wanted to make sure she knew how to cry in a way that would make the jury feel sorry for her and angry at the suspect. She said they were totally sucking up to her and trying to make her think they were her friend, when only two days before they had accused her of all sorts of things. She told me that she wasn't sure what she was going to do. She said that if Joe did it, she wanted him punished.  She then added that Sammy always talked fondly of Joe. She then gave me a lead.  She told me talk to a lawyer by the name of Roy Rubbers.

I called up old Roy.  I knew him by reputation as a totally sleazy lawyer. I told pompous Roy that I knew someone who might be able to get him a book deal.  He first pretended to be ignorant of what I was suggesting.  I told him that I knew a publisher who would really like to get the dirt on the relationship between Sammy and Joe. Roy told me that there was no relationship.  He said there was just a pending sexual harassment suit. I had to laugh.  Then I demanded Roy tell me who had put him up to lying to the police. I thought I could make Roy tell me. Yeah, I spent the next couple of hours in the emergency room.

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He was told that she had tried to kill herself. He said he met the person that pulled her out of the water from where she had jumped off a bridge, but he wouldn't give me the person's name. Later I read a report revealing the bridge that she'd reportedly jumped from is about 1 mile from where the body of Sammy Williams was found. I asked Billy if his mother knew Sammy. It was then that Billy told me about a missing police report. His mother, Sarah Jameson, had found Sammy going through the desk of Roy Rubbers. Sammy had begged her not to call the police, but she had anyway. Billy told me that ever since Sammy's death, his mother had been in a state of extreme depression.

I asked Billy  if he knew that Roy Rubbers was now saying that Sammy was a client and that had been about to file a sexual harassment suit against Joe Smith. Billy laughed. Billy told me, "Roy had told mom that Sammy was a client. Mom knew that wasn't true. But Roy made sure that Sammy was not held for breaking and entering. None of it really mattered to mom. She had felt confident that calling the police had been the right thing to do, up until Sammy turned up dead. At that point she had my wife see what she might find out."

I asked Billy what his wife had been able to discover.  Billy then gave me an odd look and I saw his wife standing off from where we'd been talking.  He walked over to her and then they both left before I could ask her any questions.