(ai responds as Adam Wright)

C A S S I E —

The leaves started falling in July, which leaves me now, staring out my window at the bright August morning, wondering if Janine Spinn had known her plan would end in a m//der and two alleged s//cides. Janine didn’t plan the m//der, and she didn’t commit it either. She helped hide the body. I am unsure if she intended for it to be found where she and her sister buried it; under the thick-rooted maple in the courtyard at west stave during a fire alarm. They didn’t pull it as a diversion- there really was a fire (and I feel the need to specify that they did not set it either. Janine was smarter than that.) Janine was smarter than a lot of people, actually, and that fact often led her sister to be ignored, undermined, and eventually, led her to hom///de. Yet even after committing such a heinous crime, Tana Spinn’s name was still pushed over on front pages, leaving headlines to read ‘Ivy League Student Accomplice to Murderer Sister (not pictured).’ They say she went mad. That she h/ng herself off a ceiling vent with her own shoelaces. I’m not sure how much of that I believe because I’ve also heard that she staged the s//cide and fled the country to Nicaragua. Neither seems entirely true to me based on logic alone. (Shoelaces aren’t allowed in prison. Maybe some, but not Ottawa State Prison; I’ve checked.) There still is a maple tree in the courtyard on East Stave- not the one that had a body under it; that one died. Sometime in early July that year, the maple leaves begun to fall, which was peculiar, because winter had already arrived, well and true.