Summary

In Chapter 13, because Jeri knew how patient Bannick was and how long he stalked his victims, 22 years in Kronke’s case, she knew she would have to dig through years of information to determine if Bannick and Verno’s paths had ever crossed. She found a report of a Lanny Verno who had been arrested for assault with a weapon in April of 2001 in Pensacola, the town where Bannick was living at the time. Verno was found not guilty of the crime on June 11, 2001. Jeri wondered if that was the point at which their paths had crossed.

Jeri hired Rollie Tabor, a private investigator, to look into the possible connection. She had learned it was better to pay White men to do this work because police investigators, who were most often White men, did not like when women, particularly Black women, asked to...