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Episode 7 - Coggle Diagram
Episode 7
Around 30 minutes after Fred's arrest, Terry brought in his wife, Linda, to the station.
Terry gave Linda the rundown of the interrogation, and told her the evidence they had against Fred. Linda says she can't believe that Fred would do that, that Fred is gentle. Linda then told a story about how when Fred lost his temper with her, he went upstairs, put his fist through two walls, and then was fine. Terry and Linda theorize that Fred has blackout episodes of anger where he loses his mind.
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According to Lamb's military records, He was in the Navy from 1967-1971. He split between a Naval Cruiser and a logistics support base, neither locations seeing much fighting. Fred spent his time as a lithographer, so the violent episodes wouldn't make much sense for him. There's no record of Fred being a Navy SEAL.
Since he was able to keep that lie going, it didn't seem off that he'd be able to hide being a murderer. But it also did hurt the argument that he could be a veteran who flew off the rails and had a blackout episode.
Kim went to talk to Gary Poles, an old friend of Fred's. He didn't want to talk. In fact, none of the police wanted to talk about Fred or the investigation.
Detective Rob Graham was in charge of the case back in '85. Graham says he has mixed emotions on whether or not Fred is a suspect, and that he realizes he may be the reason the investigation may be cold today.
Graham explains that when Fred was interviewed, he had small criss-crossed cuts on the palms of his hands, and blamed them on him pulling weeds at his parents house. Graham took photos of Fred's hands, but lost the pictures, and didn't mention anything in any files.
Pat and Kim meet again, they go over what he and his friend Dan had witnessed. They listened to the witness statement Pat gave in 1985, but it didn't mention Fred seeming guilty this time.
Pat was shocked to hear that interview, as he remembered his officer saying not to worry about Fred, and how angry that made Pat.
- How did the narrator get you to sympathize with someone?
Kim talks about how Michelle had been building up scaffolding to keep herself safe from the monster that could still be out there. It made me think about how I'd deal with something like this.
- What role does irony or satire play in this episode? How? To what effect?
Michelle ends up marrying a police officer after believing all this time that Fred Lamb murdered Shelli.
- Did the narrator or topic change your mind? How so? Why not?
Once again, I'm still not completely sure that Fred Lamb murdered Shelli. There isn't much concrete evidence that he did it.
- To what extent is the narrator biased on the issue being addressed? What evidence is there to support your opinion?
I don't think Kim is actually too biased in this case. She is good at looking at both sides of the story and not clinging onto false hope.
- What is the narrator trying to accomplish with this episode? How well does the narrator do this?
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Kim meets with Michelle to go over what she's learned in Laramie, and about a card she received in the mail after the fire.
Michelle was incredibly scared of the card, and felt like she had been given a lot of money, since she didn't have any once she moved away and her money was burned. She didn't want to report it because she needed the money and knew it'd be evidence. She did report the card though.
In the police report, there was no message telling Michelle to leave town, like she remembered. Just a card saying "Merry Christmas."
Most of the memories Michelle and others had of Fred being weird ended up being formulated in their minds, which Kim believes happened because Terry was so set on it being Fred in that time.
Michelle talks about the weight of this case and how she has carried it with herself for almost 40 years.