When I persisted, they allowed me to make my case in person with the sheriff’s captain of homicide. I arrived to find not one but three deputies, who’d invented a new reason to keep me out. I couldn’t go back in, they said, because there was an “open case” against unnamed Family members involving “stolen credit cards.” That couldn’t be, I said. The statute of limitations on any type of theft by the Family would have long run out. They didn’t care. Sergeant Paul Delhauer, who had more or less seized control of the meeting, told me there was “stuff you can never be told, will never know about”
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