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CHAPTER 23

When the Party’s Over

As the first two weeks of July passed, Cyril Winebrenner and Cassidy Green were very strung out. Their coke habit was worse than ever. They were doing a lot of “partying all night.” The acceleration of their collective habit was causing a monetary crunch for the young couple, as evidenced by Tabby kicking them out for stealing money.

On the one hand, you have a pair of junkies panicky over drugs, selling coke—day and night—and snorting up the profits. They are desperate for blow, desperate for money, money to buy blow.

On the other hand, you have a middle-aged man, with a midlife crisis, who preferred to be in control, and he was losing control. Witnesses have suggested that, for Kevin, the question was no longer what to do, but how to do it. And how to get away with it.

By the middle of July, life was one never-ending party for Cyril and Cassy. It had been going on for days, drugs all night, make a run, sell some, blow some, have a beer, almost out of cigarettes, no toilet paper. The $5,000 offered to do the deed must have seemed like a million, almost enough to just stay high forever and ever....

Tabby somehow managed to get semen on her during the evening of July 13, but the DNA was never matched. (Although it may have been checked against that of Richard Oliver only.)

Assuming that the semen did not get on Tabby’s body postmortem, what was Tabby doing during the last hours of her life? Tabby and Kevin were sleeping apart. Her boyfriend hadn’t seen her in a couple of days.