Pollitt: I wanted to end it. I’m not made for having an affair. We spoke on the phone. I understand Ned heard her arguing about ending it.

Detective Ponder: Ned said she used the phrase “I want out.” If you were ending things, why did she say that?

Pollitt: Her pride was hurt, so she decided she did indeed want out.

Detective Ponder: So you broke up. You ended the affair.

Pollitt: Yes.

Detective Ponder: So, if you ended it, why did you meet up with her again? She didn’t die at midnight.

Pollitt: She had threatened to tell my wife and kids about it. I walked over to her house.

Detective Ponder: What time?

Pollitt: I don’t know. I couldn’t sleep. Maybe 4:00 a.m.? She called me on the burner. If you can access the damaged SIM card, you’ll see I’m telling you the truth. I went over to her house, and so we wouldn’t wake Ned, we walked up to the park.

Detective Ponder: Did you plan to kill her? To silence her?

Pollitt: No, not at all. We got to the park. She said she would tell Iris. We argued.

Detective Ponder: Did you yell?

Pollitt: No. We didn’t want to wake anyone in the houses by the park. We spoke in harsh whispers.

Detective Ponder: Harsh whispers.

Pollitt: Yes, that would be accurate.

Detective Ponder: They must have been harsh indeed to escalate to death.

Pollitt: She kept threatening to tell Iris. She was hurt and she wanted me to hurt. Finally I hit her, in the throat, I didn’t mean to hit her so hard. I felt something give; I guess I hit her windpipe just right. She collapsed. I didn’t know what to do. I panicked. I was going to call 911, but then…it would all come out. She died. I put her on the bench. I couldn’t be seen carrying her back to her house, and I didn’t want Ned to find her.

Detective Ponder: You forgot her phone?

Pollitt: I was out of my mind. I ran home. I went to bed; Iris woke up for a moment, and I told her that I’d been up late working. I have insomnia. She believed me and went back to sleep. Then, when I realized you’d find her burner phone, I destroyed mine.

Detective Ponder: The injuries to your face. Did that happen that night? Did she strike you?

Pollitt: No. I fell while running in the greenbelt.

Detective Ponder: Running? Like for a jog?

Pollitt: Yes.

Detective Ponder: You killed a woman you were intimate with, went home, got into bed with your wife, slept a few hours, went to the crime scene because your daughter found the body, and then went for a jog.

Pollitt: I’m a horrible person.

Detective Ponder: You said you punched her in the throat.

Pollitt: Yes. I’m very sorry about that.