Facing Marjorie Orbin For the First Time

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WHAT'S IT LIKE TO MEET A KILLER FACE TO FACE? 

"Our voices reverberated in the all consuming presence of metal in the stall, making our voices both shrill and muffled...."

FROM THE INTRODUCTION TO "MARJORIE ORBIN & ME: THE RAW JAIL TAPES"

  "For months I had sat behind Marjorie as she faced a parade of evidence and witnesses, gruesome and blistering. Although she and I had often been no more than normal conversational distance from one another, we had never spoken a word. Similar to the gritty Durango Jail, the genteel courtrooms in downtown Phoenix are also plastered with signs warning of the grim fallout of trying to communicate with a defendant in custody.  She knew I was there, watching her life picked apart to the most minute and unflattering detail, but we had not so much as nodded our heads at each other.

"Today I would finally introduce myself to her.

"Even to the most exemplary citizen of pristine reputation, meeting a professional author who intends to write about your life whether you like it or not would be a disconcerting experience. I knew this. And it made me nervous. What attitude would Marjorie reveal to me regarding my work? I am a veteran journalist but, even so, the thought of a woman capable of taking an electric saw to the father of her child, a man guilty in her eyes of nothing more than being both sexually unsatisfactory to her and irritatingly alive, the thought of such a person becoming angry at me ran shivers up and down my spine and made my breathing quick and shallow..."

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