“I want to close the door on that, Tom O’Neill,” Guenther said. “I want to end it with you. Lee Baca kind of upset me. Our conversation is over.” I apologized and explained why I didn’t think he was incompetent, and why I was sure that anyone who knew his record didn’t, either. But it didn’t break the wall. “Twenty years I did this,” he said quietly, referring to his time in homicide, “and Baca said I’m incompetent… I just want it to finish. Hell, I’m eighty-three years old.” “I just want to write the truth about why those murders happened,” I said. “I know what you’re saying, Tom, and I’d ask
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