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From Story Mechanics and BPO.

Previously on Admissible.

I always look at Ms. Burton as a person that saw the future when no one else did it.

She's sort of viewed as the patron saint of justice and innocence. I had heard of her as the patron saint of justice and innocence.

I had heard of her as this person that had saved these samples that we were able to get 13 or

however many exonerations it is.

That's what I find so disheartening is that she wasn't as great as I thought she was.

She was everybody's hero.

The police in Charlotte thought she was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

She was like Mary James, legend.

Why would somebody who's been doing this for a long time make these kind of errors. There had to be a cause, overwork, underpaid, under-loved.

Where are you today? Well, I'm specifically in my closet in my apartment.

Patricia Cornwell is a number one best-selling crime novelist. She's the author of the K Scarpetta series about a

fictional medical examiner. I've called Cornwall to ask about a different character.

If I can't find some of one of my own books, we should probably end this interview before it starts.

The character I'm interested in is a forensic analyst named Betty.

Close to retirement, Betty had steel gray hair, strong features in hazel eyes that could be unreadable or shyly sensitive depending on whether you took the trouble to get to know her.

I liked her the first time I met her. The chief serologist was meticulous, her acumen as sharp as a scalpel. In private, she was an art and

bird. This meticulous serologist is fictional, but she sounds an awful lot like someone we know.

Mary Jane was at that time in a serology lab upstairs.

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