“Look, like I told you before. She was a surgeon. Who the hell am I to argue with her about things like that?” Colin snapped.

Gavin got up from his chair and walked over to Colin. He stood within inches of him. “What a convenient excuse.”

Colin lurched forward but the shackles kept him confined to his seat. His lawyer grabbed him by the arm to keep him from saying anything more.

“What happened after she came out of the bathroom? You stayed for quite a while,” Thomas said.

“We talked about old times, like when we first met. We drank some wine. I thought she’d forgiven me.”

The room went silent for a moment. Thomas reached for a pitcher of water that sat in the middle of the table and poured a glass, drinking nearly all of it in a few gulps. He felt a little light-headed now and hoped the cool water would help.

“Did you know Julia had a life insurance policy?’’ Gavin asked.

Colin wasn’t put off by the question. In fact, it appeared to be the easiest one of the day and he answered without hesitation.

“Yeah. She had the policy before we were married. She left the money to a friend of hers.”

“Who was this friend?”

“Molly Dolan.”

“What can you tell us about her?”

“I never met her.”

Thomas couldn’t help but feel that Gavin was fishing with this question, looking for another reason to prove Colin guilty. Colin wasn’t getting his wife’s life insurance either. And he knew it.

“Can you think of anything else? About Julia? About that night?” Thomas asked, picking up the water pitcher again.

Colin shook his head. “But I have a question for you.” He pointed to Thomas. “How the hell did her DNA stay on my clothes when she washed them?”

“She washed your clothes?” Gavin nearly laughed out loud. “This is ridiculous. Your wife goes from trying to ruin you, to doing your laundry all in a matter of what, an hour or two?”

Jack’s head immediately turned towards Thomas, and their eyes locked, the disclosure was a revelation. Thomas shook his head, signaling for Jack to not say a word.

“Yeah, she did my laundry,” Colin sneered. “I couldn’t go back to Lauren covered in blood and Julia offered to do it. That’s why I was there for so long. How do I have her DNA on my clothing if they were washed?”

“I’ll look into it,” Thomas said.

They wrapped up the questioning and everyone exited the interrogation room. Gavin caught Thomas and Jack in the hallway. “That was the biggest bunch of laughable crap I ever heard from a suspect. If you ask me, he did his own laundry to get rid of the DNA and is upset because he didn’t do a good job.”

“Unless an oxygen-producing detergent was used, the DNA wouldn’t have been removed,” Jack said.