GREYHAVEN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
RECORDED INTERVIEW — PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT
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CASE NO.: 76-027
DATE: [redacted]
LOCATION: GREYHAVEN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
INTERVIEWING OFFICER: SGT. T. W. KELLER
SUBJECT: HALLOW, DORIAN D.
TAPE: 1 — SIDE A

[EXCERPT BEGINS]
KELLER    The coroner called them superficial abrasions.
HALLOW    I can read.
KELLER    I'm asking what you saw.
HALLOW    Marks.
KELLER    Later you called them “symbols.”
HALLOW    Yeah.
KELLER    Why?
HALLOW    Because that's what they were.
KELLER    You didn't know that then.
HALLOW    No.
KELLER    You'd been awake nearly twenty hours when you identified Jacob's body.
          [HALLOW LAUGHS]
KELLER    What's funny?
HALLOW    You, a little.
KELLER    I'm funny?
HALLOW    Not on purpose.
          [PAUSE]
KELLER    You were exhausted. Your son was dead. I'm asking if maybe—
HALLOW    There we go.
KELLER    What?
HALLOW    You haven't even asked the question and you're already answering it for me.
KELLER    Fine. Could you have been wrong?
HALLOW    Could you?
KELLER    I'm not the one making the claim.
HALLOW    No. You just need me tired, drunk or crazy enough that nobody has to look at it.
KELLER    Nobody said you were crazy.
HALLOW    Not directly.
          [PAUSE]
KELLER    I read your jacket.
HALLOW    So you can read. Congratulations.
KELLER    Seventeen years. Detective Second Grade. Commendations. Good arrests.
HALLOW    You want an autograph?
KELLER    I'm trying to understand what happened to the man in there.
          [PAUSE]
HALLOW    His son was found dead in your river.
KELLER    And now he sees something everybody else missed.
HALLOW    Apparently.
KELLER    The coroner missed it. My deputies missed it. Sheriff Elias missed it.
HALLOW    Yeah, I get it. Everybody's right. I'm cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo.
          [PAUSE]
KELLER    This isn't New York, Hallow.
HALLOW    No shit. I was wondering where all the hot-dog carts were.