Killer Series
In the past few weeks, newspaper readers have been treated to two superb true-crime series. We highlighted Jon Wells' "Deadly Encounter" here. Now Tim Madigan's splendid "To Catch a Killer" has completed its 24 chapters in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Madigan has produced another page-turner, as we see in this excerpt in which Detective Curt Brannan interviews suspect Michael Olguin:
…. the detective pulled out his tape recorder and pressed the "Play" button. Olguin, who returned voluntarily for the second talk, immediately recognized Brannan's voice.
"Now you said this guy is named Michael what?"
Then Olguin heard another familiar voice.
"Olguin," Andy Ortiz said….
As he listened that day in the homicide unit, tears of anger flooded into Olguin's eyes. He clenched his fists.
"They were messing around, like, laying on the floor," Andy Ortiz said on the tape. "That's about it. Just, like, giggling and kissing and stuff like that."
"Giggling and kissing and stuff," Brannan repeated on the tape.
"Nothing, like, real major," Ortiz said. "He, like, got his hands around her, like, hugging her, cuddling her, something like that."
Then, on the tape, Ortiz described how Olguin and the girl drove off together, just a few days before Krystal's body was found at Marine Creek Lake.
"That's so low," Olguin told Brannan after the detective shut off the tape. "I'm out here, trying to stay straight. Trying to be a dad to my little girl. And this guy ..."
"Son, let me ask you this," Brannan said. "How would you feel about wearing a wire?"
http://www.star-telegram.com/killer/