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atMs. Brown’s house all day on Saturday the twenty-fourth, you had forgotten that fact?
    ND: Yes, sir.
    DETECTIVE: Miss Dougherty, had you been drinking on the twenty-fourth?
    ND: Y-yes, sir.
    DETECTIVE: And the night before?
    ND: Yes, sir.
    DETECTIVE: And, as you’ve said, your memories of that weekend are a little unclear?
    ND: I don’t—
    DETECTIVE: Forgetting the movies, for example?
    ND: I guess so, sir.
    DETECTIVE: Do you remember what movie you saw that day?
    ND: Breaking Hell .
    DETECTIVE: Was it good?
    ND: It was all right.
    DETECTIVE: And when you went to eat, was that before the movie or after?
    ND: It was . . . before.
    DETECTIVE: Can you tell me where that was?
    ND: There was a McDonald’s nearby.
    DETECTIVE: Nearby the theater? Can you tell me which one?
    ND: The big one. With . . . purple neon.
    DETECTIVE: On Shallowford Road?
    DETECTIVE: Miss Dougherty, because of the recording, I need you to say out loud “yes” or “no” when you’re answering instead of nodding your head.
    ND: Yes, sir.
    DETECTIVE: And do you remember when you got home?
    ND: It was . . . maybe . . . five? Four thirty? We got back to Bird’s and then she came back, and after a while we had to get dinner. So, about then. I think.
    DETECTIVE: Well, that certainly helps us, Miss Dougherty. At least with a few things. Clears up what Ms. Brown told us this morning, anyway. Now, about the QT station that Mr. Pavon mentioned. Remind me when you were there?
    ND: Um. After the movies. Sometime . . . six?
    DETECTIVE: So, early in the evening, then?
    ND: Yes, sir.
    DETECTIVE: And this is the QT station by Ms. Brown’s home? On Memorial Drive?
    ND: Yes, sir.
    DETECTIVE: Because see, that’s another difficulty. After Mr. Pavon told us you went there on Saturday, we went by there to check out their in-store video recordings, and unfortunately during the course of the entire day on the twenty-fourth, there’s absolutely no record of either you, or Ms. Brown, orMr. Pavon coming onto their premises.
    ND: It . . . might’ve been the Chevron. Or the Texaco.
    DETECTIVE: The Chevron or the Texaco?
    ND: There are a lot of places around there. Or—
    DETECTIVE: Yes?
    ND: I remember now. We got the beer when we got the chicken. Later. Because before that we were going to the movies.
    DETECTIVE: And you got the chicken at the, let’s see . . . the Kroger, you said?
    ND: Yes, sir.
    DETECTIVE: You’re sure?
    ND: I’m sure now. It was there.
    DETECTIVE: All right, Miss Dougherty, thank you. I have just a few more questions for you, to make sure we have it all straight. Again, we appreciate your help in this. You said, both in your statement here and when questioned by officers on the twenty-seventh, that on the morning of August twenty-fourth, Mr. Pavon went out? To the gym?
    ND: Yes, sir.
    DETECTIVE: And the name of that gym is, let’s see . . .
    ND: LA Fitness, sir.
    DETECTIVE: Thank you, Miss Dougherty. So he went to LA Fitness, where he . . . has a membership?
    ND: Yes, sir.
    DETECTIVE: And he was back by, would you say, eleven? Eleven thirty?
    ND: Something like that.
    DETECTIVE: And it was after that when you went to McDonald’s, and to the movies, but not the QT? I’m just trying to make sure. . . .
    ND: That’s right.
    DETECTIVE: And did he go anywhere else without you that day?
    ND: No, sir. We were at Bird’s the rest of the time.
    DETECTIVE: All day after he was at the gym, you were together? Did he go anywhere else on his own?
    ND: No, sir, he didn’t go anywhere else. We were together the whole time.
    DETECTIVE: And you slept over at Ms. Brown’s again, on Saturday night, the twenty-fourth?
    ND: Yes, sir.
    DETECTIVE: And on Sunday morning, Mr. Pavon got a call from his brother, which was when he took you with him to the police station. Is that correct?
    ND: Yes,