## CHAPTER 13

Wendy Dobbs: October 3, 2005

I very chance he gets-and he gets lots of chances-Chief E Reiter drills the same thing into his investigators' heads: they need to be careful. Patient. Methodical. Strategic. Or Epstein's lawyers will eat them for lunch.

Inch by inch, they move their case toward the goalpost. But in October, Detective Recarey and his coworkers catch a break that moves the ball several yards down the field.

On the first Monday of that month, they pick Wendy up at her house and, down at the police station, she starts to sing-like a bird.

The detectives can hardly believe it or get it all down fast enough. Later on, in a probable-cause affidavit, Detective Recarey will write:

Approximately two years ago, just after she turned 17 years of age, [Wendy] was approached by a friend named Molly at

the Canopy Beach
asked if she wanted
have to provide a m
thought about the off
Molly (Unknown
name) picked [Dobl
house. Upon her arr
Epstein in the kitch
duced to a white fem
upstairs to the main
bedroom.

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with a sheet. She bro
next to the massage
informed [Dobbs] Jefj
the bedroom wearing
He removed the
table. He laid on the
massage oil for [Dobb

"He tried to touch m

I asked how he tried to
grabbed her buttocks

"I'll massage you," D
to be touched."

[Dobbs] stated she per
clusion of the massage

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