Tunney actually reached up and patted the guy’s hand, then turned back to Cody. “Keep going.”

“So that’s how things went,” Cody continued. “The doctors would try something, it wouldn’t work. Jimmy would dispatch her. She’d come back on the second floor. Me and whoever else was on duty would go get her. Bring her back to the third floor. And then the next day or the day after they’d try something else. But then one day Jimmy dispatched her and she didn’t show up on the second floor.”

“What?” I said.

“That’s what we said. She wasn’t there and we didn’t know where she was. Mr. Wooldridge flipped out and yelled at everyone, and especially Jimmy. We started tearing the house apart looking for her. And then we got a phone call from the security at the Columbia Yacht Club. Mrs. Wooldridge was on the Fairy Tale. Their sailing yacht. She was there and she was naked and we needed to come get her.”

“What happened?”

“Well, me and another guy grabbed one of her gowns and went to go get her.”

“No. I mean, why did she appear there and not back on the second floor?”

“I don’t know, man. But I will say that when we went to get her, she was doing something I never saw her do before.”

“What was that?”

“She was smiling. She had laid down, naked as a jaybird, on the deck of the yacht, arms spread out, eyes closed. Big ol’ smile. And I came up to her with a gown and I said ‘Mrs. Wooldridge, we have to go.’”

“What did she say?”

“She said, ‘Oh, let’s not. I’m so happy here.’”

I didn’t say anything to this. After a minute Cody figured out I wasn’t going to say anything, so he kept going. “So we finally get her dressed and into the car and back to the house, and Mr. Wooldridge is seriously pissed and is crying at her and yelling at us. Jimmy is watching all of this happen and then when things settle down a bit he comes over to me and asks me what happened.”

“How did he respond to it?”

“He didn’t. He just stood there and then thanked me and walked away. And then the next time he was there, Mrs. Wooldridge died. And when that happened, Mr. Wooldridge exploded at Jimmy. Yelling and cursing and screaming at him. Threatening him. He tried to attack him but one of our guys stopped that. I mean, not that he would have done anything to Jimmy. You’ve seen him. He’s not in the shape to do anything to anyone. But it wasn’t anything like he told you it was. It wasn’t anything like that at all.”

I nodded and turned my attention to Tunney. “Why are you telling me this?”