Schroeder had suggested it jokingly when we first spoke on the phone. My mother had told him about my forthcoming book, and, while he was intrigued by it, he wanted to make sure that I didn’t say anything in public about it before Leiterman had been arrested. I assured him that the book wouldn’t be out for months, and that poetry wasn’t a mass-market kind of a thing. Even so, he said, you’d better get ready to write an addendum. An addendum that explains everything. On November 12, 2004, I sat down at my desk in the Ponderosa Room, took out a piece of paper, and wrote at the top of the page: FIRST ATTEMPT AT AN ADDENDUM THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING The addendum took the form of a list: In 2001, around the time I started writing this book, unbeknownst to me, the box of evidence pertaining to Jane’s murder was removed from its storage locker and sent to the state crime lab in Lansing, Michigan, for genetic testing. Much of the genetic material found on the objects in the box—such as a large bloodstain on a yellow-and-white striped towel left at the crime scene, for example—presumably came from Jane herself.
