Page 21 of By the Time You Read This (Raisa Susanto #3)

Three months before Isabel Parker’s death

LC and I (separately but at the same time!) watched Don’t F**k with Cats tonight and we could not have been more hooked! If y’all have been living under a rock, it’s an old (2019!) documentary about a dude who killed two kittens by suffocating them in a plastic bag via a vacuum cleaner. ( Yeah Sicko Alert !) Some amateur sleuths launched an investigation and eventually figured out that he actually had also killed a girl (cue my surprise *end sarcasm).

I think the whole story shows how helpful it is to enlist as many people as possible to help solve cold cases, but LC isn’t convinced. I don’t need to convince her per se, but it would be cool if she could like throw me a bone or two. She’s a cynic, though.

Professor OB (perv, but good teacher) will be happy with the paper, though. I’m like using real life examples to support my argument in favor of amateur sleuths and everything. Apparently that’s important when it comes to psychology research.

I wrote four-thousand words last night after watching the documentary, way more than I need for the essay. But I don’t think that’s where I’m going to stop. This topic is so cool , and I have to keep working on it. Maybe it could even be a book one day, who knows!

LC made fun of me when I said that, but she has like a C+ in the class, so what does she know. ( Ok she knows a lot, and she has a C+ because Prof OB doesn’t like that she’s remote. But Anyway .)

I need to start making a list of family members to talk to—people who might hate my ideas in every single way.

Some people wouldn’t have the balls to actually go talk to them, but I’m better than those people.