"By the way," Dave interjected, "the police called me today: They wanted to talk to Kelly about the time in the hotel in New York, when Michael broke the lamp in front of Kelly and Jordie. He had a temper tantrum."
Larry's evidence-gathering ears perked up. "In New York? In a hotel?"
June related the story of how one night, when she returned to the hotel after an evening out with some old friends, she found two lamps shattered on the floor and the rest of the room trashed. Jordie and Michael told her Michael had been practicing karate kicks and got carried away.
But when June went to check on Kelly, who had been lying awake in bed in the adjoining room, the little girl told her mother that Michael had lost his temper and was yelling at Jordie and breaking things. Yet the next morning, after a little rehearsing from Michael and Jordie, Kelly changed her story and corroborated Michael's.
It wasn't until months later, after the molestation became public, that Jordie told his mother the truth. As it turned out, Kelly's original account was correct. While June was out, Michael became enraged when he learned that June's brother, a New Yorker who had come to visit at the hotel, found out that Michael and Jordie were sleeping together.
"That's what pisses me off most," Evan explained. "More important than e sex was the brainwashing. This kid had been changed so much that nobody really knew anything about him anymore. Michael was so slick he made Jordie slick. He fooled us all."
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