death and the maidens

Coffee with Rowena.

She's looking a bit green.

She tells me why.

She's just realised that more than a decade ago she got serial killer Larry Murphy to install a floor for her at her house.

Her daughters had played near him.

Once while she shepherded the children down to bed, serial killer Larry Murphy had looked up from the floor and called out to her.

"I've never in my life seen a woman as calm as you," he said.

And something about the way he said it chilled her to the bone.