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Zelda Tate woke up to the sound of her clock alarm ringing. It was 5am; she normally do not get out of bed until 5:30am. Zelda push the snoozed button on the alarm clock, she turned over and immediately felt asleep. Thirty minutes has passed the alarm goes off again, Zelda gets out of bed rubbing her eyes trying to wake up to get ready for work. She goes into her kitchen to start her coffee pot. As she started to cook her breakfast, she noticed a stranger coming out of the back window of her next-door neighbor's house. The man was dressed in a black shirt and black pants with a shocking cap over his face to protect his identity. She grabs her telephone to call 911; she never takes her eyes off the mysterious stranger as he is now looking around trying to see if anyone is watching him. She goes to the light switch in the kitchen turns it off, she was so afraid the stranger might have seem her watching him. "911 what is the nature of your emergency" asked the 911 operator. "I would like to report a stranger coming out of my neighbor back window," replied Zelda. The 911 operator took down the information, within minutes a police cruiser had arrived at the neighbor's front door. The mysterious stranger was long gone and he had vanished in the night.

It is now 6am; Zelda had just backed her car out of her garage when the tall, handsome detective approached her car. She rolls down her car window," Hello, I am Detective Ronnie Washington of the Wellington Police Department, are you Zelda Tate who reported the strange man coming out of Mrs. James back window"? Zelda replied," Yes, I am. What is wrong? Is Angie and her kids okay"? The Detective had a sad disturbing look on his face; she could see it on his face. She knew something terrible had happen to her neighbor and her two young daughters. Detective Washington answered in a sad voice," Sorry, it is bad news, Mrs. James and her two young daughters have been murder, I am going to need a statement from you downtown". Zelda, started to cry, she could not believe what the detective was telling her. She turned her car ignition off and got out of her car. She followed the detective to his car; on the driver, side of his car an older man with gray hair was behind the wheel. Detective Washington said," This is my partner Detective Leroy Smith, we will both take your statement once we get downtown. The Detective opened the back door of the black sedan escorting Zelda to get into the car. As they were driving off,

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