“Wheatley had gone off to Syracuse University as a premed student, telling friends he dreamed of the day when he could help people as a doctor in a hospital emergency room. The letter from college was a rambling one, filled with news, the embarking on a new adventure. The main reason for the letter, he wrote, was that he was broke. He’d already borrowed more than he should have from his father and couldn’t ask him for any more, especially since, he said, he’d lost the money gambling. Could Denni...s send him a couple of hundred? Dennis did, and later sent him more when Wheatley asked again. “I found out later,” Dennis says, “that he hadn’t lost money betting; he’d gotten a girl in trouble, and he needed it to pay for an abortion.” In the course of that letter Wheatley wrote, “So, Dude, how’s your woman? Is her mother still alive?” Joyce Aparo was, indeed, still alive and, as autumn approached, in no immediate danger. She either had been unaware of or had blinded herself to the plot that nearly took her life during those first weeks of August.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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