May 5, 2017—Four days before interviews
To: Abigail Ryder
From: Andrew Ashford
Subject: Briar Glen Setup
Abby,
We are going to need a secure location. At least two rooms to use for interviews, with sturdy locks. Soundproof, or at least in an area we are unlikely to alarm any neighbors.
Please approach this as a standard interview. We want the subjects to be comfortable and to trust us. We will collect standard written statements from all of the survivors who have agreed to talk to us. Given the police involvement in this case, we need to tread cautiously, though it appears that the usual effect is in place and the matter is being mysteriously overlooked and forgotten by the authorities. Convenient enough for us, I suppose. It isn’t as if they would be able to help in these circumstances.
I want everything recorded. Multiple angles in the interviews, if possible, and I want you to review all of the material that Miss Donoghue has supplied and make copies for our records. Pay attention to every detail.
One of them is lying.
—Andrew