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  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. One
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  24. Twenty–one
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  60. Fifty–seven
  61. Author’s Note
  62. Acknowledgments
  63. Also by Becky Masterman
  64. About the Author
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Perry said he wanted to be left alone and I walked off, unhappy that I got what I wanted but now I was not sure if I would lose Perry, too. We headed on. Perry stayed sad and didn’t talk much for a few days. I then thought he had gotten over it, but when I cracked a joke about Jerry’s big ass he punched me in the gut so hard I got the wind knocked out of me, so I said no more rather than risk another fight like we had had. Then he got over it, except for picking out the tune of “Humoresque” on his guitar once in a while. Perry said that was the song Jerry was humming all the time. That made me kind of crazy because I did not want him to recall Jerry, but I kept my mouth shut in order to keep the peace and we did not speak of him for a while. Jerry did not come back into the conversation until later. I never realized how close Perry had gotten to him, and how much Jerry stayed in his mind. We ended up in Nevada, but all the fun had gone out of things. That was where Perry got me to swear not to rat on Jerry if we were ever caught.

Anyone reading this will know how we got caught in Las Vegas, and tried, and convicted. We were in all the news, famous even if Capote doesn’t publish his book about us. He writes to both Perry and me about once a week and says it is coming along. What he does not say is that he is not going to publish it until after we are dead but I know this is the case.

What people do not know a lot about is that they tried to hang the Walker killings on us because we were in the vicinity at the time. Sarasota, Florida, is close to the town of Osprey where it happened. We were accused of the Walker murders after we had confessed to the Clutter killings and were waiting for trial, only they dropped the investigation after we passed a polygraph test.

Long before the actual trial Perry had changed his confession so that he claimed to have killed the entire Clutter family. He let me off the hook in return for me not betraying Jerry. I thought this would save me, but I got the death penalty just the same. I stewed about this for some time after our conviction. By that time they were not so careful about keeping us apart. We are kept in separate cells on death row, but sometimes take our showers together, or bribe the guards to let us speak.