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“Your sister, Jayne, has engaged my services on your behalf,” Nan said, sitting across the table from Tyler. She took in his puzzled expression and said, “I’m here to help you. The first thing I want to know is, have they been treating you well?”
Tyler shrugged. “They got me these chips.”
“I just want to be sure you haven’t been mistreated in any way.”
“They’ve got me here when I didn’t do anything. Isn’t that being mistreated?”
“That’s what I’m here to talk about with you. From now on, I don’t want you to say anything to the police or answer any of their questions unless I’m right beside you.”
“I already answered a ton, but I didn’t tell them anything bad.”
“You admitted you were there. That you went into the house.”
“Yeah, well, that.”
She managed a wry smile. “We’ll do what we can about that, but just so you understand, not another word.”
“Okay.”
“I want you to tell me everything you told them. And anything that you might have left out.”
Tyler told his story.
“So when you left Ms. DiCarlo’s house the first time, she was still alive.”
“Yeah.”
“And when you came back, she was dead.”
“Yeah.”
“And during this period you talked to your friend Cam.” Tyler nodded. “How much time elapsed between your first and second visits to Ms. DiCarlo’s house?”
“I don’t know exactly.”
“Half an hour?”
“Maybe a little more than that.”
“Forty minutes?”
Tyler thought. “Probably. They took my phone, but my texts with Cam are probably there. They’d show when I was talking to him.”
“Okay.” Nan made a note on her yellow legal pad. “When you were at the scene the second time, when you found Ms. DiCarlo, did you get the sense that there might be anyone else in the house at that time?”
“Like, hiding?” Tyler asked.
“Yeah, like hiding,” she said.
“I didn’t hear anyone. But, I mean, I didn’t exactly go looking around. After I found her, I wanted to get out of there as fast as possible.”
“You were in shock.”
“Well, I don’t know if I was in—”
“You were in shock,” Nan said again.
“Yeah, okay, I guess I might have been.”
