Carolyn Bryant would feel followed, hounded, for the rest of her life. She wrote that she, too, was a victim. And she insisted in her memoir that she had been justified. What kind of person carries a lie to the grave? That’s what I kept wondering with each page of the memoir. Killinger spent time with FBI profilers before interviewing her and they all agreed that his chances of breaking her were slim because when a lie gets told that many times for that many years, the person telling the lie believes it. The story becomes memory, the memory becomes truth. That same emotional process protects
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