Page 236 of Murder in the Family

REPORTER #1

So you can confirm, can you, that she was being abused by the man you knew as Luke Ryder? You have actual evidence of that?

GUY HOWARD

No, but—

REPORTER #1

This new evidence the police have – those new DNA tests they ran – it proved the hair caught in the dead man’s jacket was from your sister, right?

GUY HOWARD

So I’ve been told—

REPORTER #2

And his real name was Jonah McKenna? A Canadian who faked his own death in 1991?

GUY HOWARD

Apparently so—

REPORTER #2

What can you tell us about him?

GUY HOWARD

Nothing – I don’t know any more than you do. I think the police are trying to track down his family—

REPORTER #3

What aboutyourfamily? What do they think about all this? Do they blame you for your sister being arrested?

GUY HOWARD

(bridling slightly)

It’snotmy fault– how was I to know what we would find?

REPORTER #4

What about your mother? Maura? How do they feel about this?

GUY HOWARD

My mother has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s – she’s not really in any state to—

REPORTER #4

She must have known, though, surely? I can’t see two teenage girls keeping a secret like that.

GUY HOWARD

There isnosuggestion my mother knewanything.

REPORTER #4

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