Chapter 122 Section 4

When talking about the letters and diaries "stolen" by Steven, Mary Kay said Steven was a mean person who wanted to use these things to "blackmail" her. Given Mary Kay's medical condition, police do not plan to detain her until the baby is born.After leaving the police station that night, Mary Kay didn't go home directly. She first went to Beth Adele, a music teacher at Shorewood Elementary School. Beth, who is in her 50s, has divorced her husband. Her oldest child is about the same age as Mary Kay, and the younger is in middle school.Mary Kay later told people: "Beth was a wonderful woman, she and I had a connection, a woman's understanding of a woman. I was very close to her because she treated us as her own children-- Me and Willie."

Mary Kay stayed at Beth's until past 3 a.m., crying and calling.Mary Kay told her father, John Himmitz, in California, on the phone that Steven would no longer allow her to drive the van because he believed it was one of the "crime scenes."Mr. Himitz promised to send his daughter a car as soon as possible. Mary Kay didn't dare to disturb anyone when she got home, and spent the night quietly on the sofa in the living room.Since then, that sofa has become a place where she often spends the night. When the sun came up the next day, Mary Kay didn't rush to wash up, eat breakfast in a hurry, send the children to school in a hurry, and rush to Shore as usual. Classroom 39 of Wu Primary School.As she had told Willie, she was out of a job.

For the police, the "Mary Catherine Letourneu Rape of a Toddler" case was an easy one.Inspector Padisia Mailer took Willie Vallao's testimony and Mary Kay's statement without difficulty.As for the baby that Mary Kay is pregnant with, that is a more conclusive "evidence". Questions that make up English have the six most common sentence initials, also known as six "Wh".In just a few days, the investigators have basically figured out five of them: Who (who--the perpetrator and the victim), What (what--the facts of the crime), Where (where--the scene of the crime), When (When - when the crime was committed) and How (how - the circumstances of the case).But the last question left, Why (why-the motive for committing the crime), is more complicated and confusing than any case they have ever handled.

Investigators began to interview people around Mary Kay and Willie, and the first person they selected was Mary Kay's husband, Steven Letourneu. The conversation brought up June 19, 1996, and Steven said he still remembered it.He was actually on the regular day shift that day, and when he came home in the evening, he saw Willie Vallao and his eldest son Steven Jr. making some kind of handicraft for primary school students.Willie was wearing those "baggy shirts" and baggy trousers that gangster kids used to wear that day.Steven never liked this black-haired, dark-skinned child. He didn't understand that the school was closed and the child had already graduated from Shorewood Primary School. Why did Mary Kay take him home every now and then?But at the time, he just thought that his wife might want to adopt Willie informally, as a godmother or something, because it was said that the child had a talent for painting, and Mary Kay probably hoped that Willie would become famous in the future so that he could get some fame. .When it comes to painting, Steven has another lawsuit on his forehead. He has long been tired of Mary Kay bragging in her ear how great Willie is all day long.According to Steven, Willie was indeed better at drawing than many children of the same age, but he couldn't see that Willie would become "the second Picasso" as Mary Kay said.

Steven pulled out a cardboard box of unpaid bills and paperwork from the closet and slammed it on the kitchen table: "School is out!" he yelled at his wife, "You should do something too." It's serious business!" Hearing that Steven lost his temper, Willie immediately stood up and walked out without saying a word.Mary Kay quickly followed, jumping into the van before she even had time to put on her shoes.It was not yet seven o'clock. Steven was quick enough to admit to the police that the affair Mary Kay had told him about him was true, but given his current relationship with his wife, he didn't want to end "that affair."Steven said that he also considered divorce, but the legal fees were too expensive, so he delayed it.

Steven also readily handed over Mary Kay's letters and diaries, which he had seized privately, without even waiting for the police to show the search warrant. Mary Kay wrote in her diary: "I feel like I am falling faster and faster, towards that point of no return." Before Mary Kay arrived in Chicago for a natal relative's wedding in the early winter of 1996, Steven made a phone call to her father-in-law and mother-in-law to warn them that their daughter was getting herself involved. scandal.Steven did not disclose more details on the phone, only saying that "it is best for her to tell you in person."Later, Mary Kay wrote in her diary: "I told my parents and they were very worried. They said that if someone found out, I would be ruined."

But in a letter to Willie, Mary Kay was insincere: "I told my parents everything, including our children! I talked to them in detail about you, and even told them that you have not Adulthood (but no specific age mentioned. I think you were about 15 in their impression)...I said you were one of my students and my father immediately said he remembered seeing you....my mother It means she likes you very much." "...sometimes I feel your kisses and you're not here. I miss the sounds we made together. I picture your arms around me, hugging I, forever and ever..." In another letter, Mary Kay asked Willie to "swear on your life that no matter how much you are questioned, you will not tell anything about us - not even a kiss!"

On some of the little notes they exchanged, Willie wrote: "Who told you you could wrap your legs around my body?"