46 Chapter 46

“Are you up to a few questions, doctor?” Detective Wilson said.

“Of course. I’m going home today. Ask away.”

After he’d repeated his story of the incident in which he’d killed Weatherton, Wilson confirmed much of what he’d guessed about the whole sordid affair.

“Marshall dated the student, then raped her for not putting out. He talked her into meeting him in his valley office and sedated her. Morgana, knowing nothing of this, anesthetized her in Weatherton’s lowland office. She left when the patient became alert and later recognized her from the newspaper photos after she died. Realized he must’ve botched the procedure—which he wasn’t qualified to do—and the girl had died and been dumped in Black Bear.