And then: Is it real—even if it does track? Hmm. Let’s see. Maybe Neese flew off the handle. Maybe after Danny Baker talked to him he thought: At this point it doesn’t matter if Suzanne talked, I’m not going to risk it. Yeah—maybe he was like Sam Spade at the end of The Maltese Falcon. Thinking: I don’t know if what you’re telling me is true or not, but I’m not going to be a sucker either way. So I have to assume the worst. Or maybe Danny’s performance triggered another kind of rage within Neese. And he was mad, whether or not she’d squealed, that Suzanne had fallen for a client. So the whole thing, in his eyes, was a big mess, a big mess that he needed to get rid of. I didn’t think Danny Baker had killed her. I didn’t feel it. Truth is, I was closer than ever to putting the killing on Neese, for sure. Problem was, I still needed the proverbial smoking gun or there would always be at least a sliver of speculation. And that’s when I thought about it: Yes, the gun.
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