Comments on: Under the tape

By: Stephanie Wells

Stephanie Wells — Wed, 17 May 2006 05:57:11 +0000

Okay, so it’s been a week since this eloquent post and I still think about that girl with the slit throat (and her father) every day. What, possibly, could have happened to make her end up like that? I’m sure you never found out, not being an insider on the case, but she is haunting me–as is your insight into the Scott Petersonesque “dark places” in us all. Shiver me timbers.

By: WW

WW — Sat, 13 May 2006 17:06:19 +0000

I have thought about detective-ing full-time but am not sure I could consistently endure some of the smells that are, thankfully, never on screen. I also am not sure that I could compartmentalize certain aspects of the job, like the pain of a victim’s family. Most detectives are the some of the funniest people I know; humor is essential to their emotional survival.

And good catch. AA, and if you’d asked me that across a table in an interview room, you’d see my eyes drift slightly to the side, as eyes do when people are lying, as I explain that the weather had changed and I had to row back to shore because the outboard motor was on the fritz. We didn’t have that big a boat, my wife and I…

By: AA

AA — Fri, 12 May 2006 16:01:07 +0000

why, detective, would someone in a sailboat “row back to shore”?

By: MF

MF — Thu, 11 May 2006 15:38:03 +0000

WW-
I am riveted. What I like most about this post is the sense of freedom you project in pretending to be “a Scott Petersonesque character” one hundred percent. I thinkI’d be a little afraid of it. Afraid of how I might feel. Afraid I might like it.
I’m looking forward to reading more…
M

By: Bryan Waterman

Bryan Waterman — Thu, 11 May 2006 00:12:27 +0000

WW, I loved your post beginning to end — from the category definitions of “death” and “television” on, in fact. what i want to know: does writing detective shows ever make you think about wanting to become a detective? (or does day-old mcdonald’s serve as an adequate deterrent, dead bodies aside?)