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Transcript of Detective Jim Walsh Interviewing Witness Elizabeth Matthews

E. Matthews: First off let me tell you that I have no skin in the game here…Shit. Sorry. That’s probably a bad metaphor given how he was…how he was killed, right?

Det. Walsh: It is in fairly poor taste.

E. Matthews: All I am trying to say to you is that I don’t really know them. Together, I mean. I don’t know anything about Bex and her husband—what is his name again, Guy?

Det. Walsh: Grayson.

E. Matthews: Right. Again, no disrespect. I’m nervous. I knew his name was Grayson. I never met him. Until yesterday I hadn’t seen her in about fifteen years.

Det. Walsh: But you did attend college with the deceased’s wife. You used to be friends with Rebecca Sommers.

E. Matthews: Yeah, I knew Bex back in the day. That’s what we used to call her. Bex. No one ever called her Rebecca. I think she hated being called Rebecca back then…but it seems like something he would have liked.

Det. Walsh: He? Her husband? The one you don’t know?

E. Matthews: Yeah. From what I’ve seen of him on her Instagram account. He just seems like the kind of guy who would be more into a Rebecca than a Bex. Rebecca sounds more proper and sophisticated…more wifey.

Det. Walsh: Wifey?

E. Matthews: Yes. Wifey.

Det. Walsh: But you said you didn’t know the deceased, you never met him.

E. Matthews: Exactly. I’ve never met him.

Det. Walsh: And until recently you hadn’t been in contact with Mrs. Sommers.

E. Matthews: A couple of weeks ago she reached out asking me if I was still a journalist and if I would be interested in writing a profile about her.

Det. Walsh: And that is what you were doing with her on the night he was killed.

E. Matthews: Yes. We were hanging out. I had plans to write something for the magazine I work for. We were attending the conference and then I was supposed to go with her to her ranch.

Det. Walsh: Were you with her all night?

E. Matthews: No.

Det. Walsh: When did you last see her?

E. Matthews: Around eight-ish.

Det. Walsh: Do you have any idea where she is now?

E. Matthews: Do you?

Det. Walsh: I’m going to be the one asking the questions for now. Grayson Sommers was brutally murdered in his own barn and you are the last person to speak to his wife before she disappeared. Do you think she would be capable of that sort of thing?

E. Matthews: No. I mean…I don’t think so. I don’t know what she’s like now. She did use to be one of the most capable people I’d ever met. She used to be able to do anything.

Det. Walsh: How about you start at the beginning…