Tell Me What You Did

Content Warning: This section contains descriptions of violence, death, emotional abuse, stalking, substance abuse and suicidal ideation.

Poe’s father asks if she is sure that the Leonard Avery was Leopold Hutchins. Poe says that she was sure enough to kill him but admits that she now worries that she killed the wrong person. Poe’s father reassures her that Hindley is an impostor, but Poe tells him that Hindley knows things that only her mother’s killer would know. She warns her father that she needs to tell him how she killed Leonard Avery.

This chapter is a continuation of the live-streamed conversation between Hindley and Poe. Poe describes her date with Avery. She arrived early to the restaurant. When Avery arrived, his smile identified him, “sure as a fingerprint” (150), though she noted that nothing else about him seemed familiar. In hindsight, she wonders if she was convincing herself that he looked like Hutchins because she wanted it to be him.

Avery explained that he used the picture of Randy Steven Craft because he likes women with a dark sense of humor. When she asks how he knew the name of the woman in her profile, he admits that he also reverse-searched the photo and found Margaret’s obituary.