F is For Fugitive

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The author wishes to acknowledge the invaluable assistance of the following people: Steven Humphrey; Deputy District Attorney Robert P. Samoian, County of Los Angeles; Patricia Barnwell, M.D.; Alan S. Gewant, Pharm.D., and Barbara Long, La Cumbre Pharmacy; Jail Commander Pat Hedges, San Luis Obispo County Jail; Officer Eben Howard, Santa Barbara Police Department; John T. Castle, Castle Forensic Laboratories, Dallas, Texas; Vice President Peter Wisner and Financial Consultant Michael Karry, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner amp; Smith Inc.; Lieutenant and Mrs. Tony Baker, Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Department; Anne Reid; Florence Clark; Brent and Sue Anderson; Carter Blackmar; William Pasich and Barbara Knox; and Jerome T. Kay, M.D.

The Ocean Street Motel in Floral Beach, California, is located, oddly enough, on Ocean Street, a stone's throw from the sea wall that slants ten feet down toward the Pacific. The beach is a wide band of beige trampled with footprints that are smoothed away by the high tide every day. Public access is afforded by a set of concrete stairs with a metal rail. A wooden fishing pier, built out into the water, is anchored at the near end by the office of the Port Harbor Authority, which is painted a virulent blue.

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