The legal wrangling about jurisdiction had gone on for weeks. It had been complicated,
because the murders had taken place in two countries and two different states.
A meeting was held in San Francisco, attended by Officer Guy Pontaine from the Quebec Police Department, Sheriff Dowling from Santa Clara County,
Detective Eagan from Bedford, Pennsylvania, Captain Rudford from the San Francisco Police Department,
and Roger Toland, the chief of police in San Jose. Fontaine said, “We would like to try her in Quebec
because we have absolute evidence of her guilt. There’s no way she can win a trial there.”
Detective Eagan said, “For that matter, so do we, Officer Fontaine.
Jim Cleary’s was the first murder she committed, and I think that should take precedence over the others.”
Captain Rudford of the San Francisco police said, “Gentlemen, there’s no doubt that we can all prove her guilt.
But three of these murders took place in California, and she should be tried here for all of them. That gives us a much stronger case.”
“I agree,” Sheriff Dowling said. “And two of them took place in Santa Clara County, so this is where the jurisdiction should lie.”
They spent the next two hours arguing the merits of their positions, and in the end,
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