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Meghan
William,
Accused killer
Anna Leigh, Kimberly, Jill, and Emma,
The mudered women
Max Yulipsky.
Hannah's ex
Hannah.
Main character
“Making change from the inside!” I’d said enthusiastically when I got the position, before I realized how the inside slowly devours a person until they’re doing nothing at all.
Meghan,
Hannah's best friend
Carole
Co worker?
She was almost a decade younger than me, married, and a recent law school graduate.
Hmm law school, William went to law school
Anna Leigh was last spotted at the law firm in Georgia where she served as an intern.
Later, we would learn that it was that same firm where William Thompson worked, but William Thompson wasn’t yet a name that we knew.
Anna Leigh’s husband, Tripp,
Do enough research and nowhere is safe, not the Target parking lot, not your apartment complex, not the friendly neighborhood running trail.
For a week and a half, I’d been a passionate advocate for all the missing women in the world and I hadn’t managed to change a thing.
“I’m not obsessed with killers,” I told her. “I’m obsessed with justice.”
Jesus, so far this whole book is snarky commentary on how we act in murder cases
Kimberly worked at a gas station, which meant that lots of people knew her and none of them noticed her absence.
2nd victim found
William Thompson, a successful lawyer, lived in one of the condos. He walked to the gas station when he needed junk food as a pick-me-up, as he liked to keep only healthy food in his apartment.
Kimberly’s name didn’t trend and the media coverage was scant, describing her as “the woman found near Anna Leigh.”
Jill was a personal trainer. She had once weighed 350 pounds and, through a strict regimen of diet and exercise, she had whittled her way down to 120 pounds.
Hunger inspired all sorts of emotions inside of a person, and those emotions almost never included self-love.
The name William Thompson was on my list.
The truth was that I couldn’t imagine a man like that wanting to murder anyone. His life looked good, peaceful, and if movies had taught me anything, it was that serial killers always had some underlying trauma.
Sometimes the deepest betrayals were things that women did to one another.
Quote?
He was handsome, a lawyer, and his listed height was six foot one. She continued to message him even after she went home, and before she went to bed, they switched over to texting. It couldn’t be that easy, could it?
William?
Emma went on a date with William Thompson, a handsome, smart, rich lawyer who liked all the same things that she did. No one knew about the date. Not her siblings, her coworkers, or her friends.
“I’m sure you did your best, honey,” she said. There was a pause. “Though you could’ve saved that girl’s life if you figured out it was him.”
I never understood how ghosting could be unintentional until I did it to him.
It’s unfair that the worst people on this earth get the most attention.
I was always doing that, denying myself immediate pleasure for the sake of setting a scene.
I read people as I wanted them to be.
William hadn’t confessed his guilt, but neither had he protested his innocence.
It’s painful to think of all the things that I didn’t let myself love when I wanted to love them.
Bentley’s
William's brother
Carole Ann Boone had sex with Ted while he was locked up and had his baby. I don’t think I could have sex in a jail and if I did, I would definitely make him use a condom,” I said.
“Don’t fall in love with a serial killer or anything,” she joked.
I attended my monthly dinner with my parents with a gaping wound on my face from where I had picked at a zit until it turned into a sore.
Jesus, I know someone who does that
A mother should have been able to sense when her daughter was traveling across the country to see the serial killer that she was in a committed relationship with.
Ummmm but you don't communicate with your parents lol
Historically, knowing a man is only ever a detriment to a woman’s safety.
Exactly, possible quote
The whole fun of obtaining secrets is figuring out whom to tell them to.
Dotty
Who is Dotty?
You’re in love with longing.
Dotty
One of the spectators at William's trial
William’s parents, Mark and Cindy, had been high school sweethearts.
Lauren.
Lauren wasn’t at the trial for Anna Leigh at all, but rather for William, who was the second murderer that she’d fallen in love with. The first was a forty-five-year-old white man, Kris Cooper, who was accused of setting his house on fire and killing his wife and son in the process. Cooper insisted that he had not set the fire and would never hurt his family.
Being one of “those women” had a scent to it, apparently.
William’s brother’s wife, Virginia,
Mark Thompson appears to be visiting the places where the women were last seen. I don’t think that it’s the first time that he’s done this. It almost looks like a ritual to him.
“I think I need to talk to Mark Thompson,” I told them.
Either Mark is the killer or Mark is going to kill someone to make his son look not guilty since William is in jail.
Under the guise of saying hello, men were always interrupting women while they were doing important things.
