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Back The Hallows
Chapters (89)
  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  3. DEDICATION
  4. CONTENTS
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  88. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  89. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I moved toward the jury and put the photo on the banister in front of them. “Patty knew Anderson and his friend Steven from school, and they started drinking together that night. Anderson also got high on mescaline and marijuana, as his friend Steven will tell you. He’ll also tell you Anderson was out of his head. He was agitated and angry, harassing and groping the women in the bar. Cecily had a curfew and had to leave. Steven and Patty decided they were going to leave together, but Steven couldn’t just abandon his buddy in that condition, so they took Anderson with them. And it was a mistake that would cost Patty her life.

“While driving, Anderson told Steven to pull over. Steven thought he might need to vomit or urinate, but instead Anderson pulled out a hammer from a toolbox in the back seat of the car.” I hit my fist against my palm. “He smashed it into the back of Patty’s head, fracturing her skull. Steven was in shock. He didn’t know what to do other than take her to a hospital. But Anderson wasn’t about to allow that. So he took out a gun, this gun,” I said, as I went over to the table and held up the 9 millimeter in the evidence bag, “and stuck this gun into Steven’s face and told him to drive. Steven, fearful that he might get killed, obeyed. Anderson led him to a townhome he secretly kept in Glassdale. He forced Steven to carry Patty’s unconscious body into the townhome, and that’s where her nightmare really began.

“For two days, in a psychotic drug binge, Anderson Ficco tortured Patty Winchester. He raped her. He cut her with a knife. He burned her with cigarettes. He knocked out teeth, and at some point, he began breaking bones. But that wasn’t enough. He had to take her life, too.”

Just then the door to the courtroom opened. I looked over and saw Hank Winchester leaving.

“After two days, when the drugs began to wear off, he panicked. He didn’t know what to do, so he called his buddy Steven and told him that if he didn’t come over and help him, Anderson would have to clean up loose ends. So again, Steven ran over because he was frightened Anderson would kill him. And what he saw almost made him vomit.