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This is part two of the Alice Hawke story.

If you haven't listened to part one, I suggest going back and starting with that one first.

Stephen Bouchard shouted, call the police.

His landlord, Bob, was nervous about touching anything in the apartment for fear of contaminating the crime scene.

So he first knocked on some neighbor's doors, hoping that one of them would allow him to use their phone.

When there was no answer, Bob returned to Alice's apartment.

He went to the living room and used the apartment's phone to call the Westbrook police.

While he was on the phone with police, it looked as though Stephen was bent over Alice, perhaps checking for a pulse.

Stephen told him, don't touch anything.

After he got off the phone, Stephen said, come here Bob, there's something I want to show you.

He asked Bob to follow him to the bedroom, which he did.

And then Stephen pointed to a table and said, that's why I couldn't get into the apartment.

In the center of the otherwise bare table was a single key.

They returned to the living room where Bob saw Stephen going through Alice's purse.

He also saw Stephen touch what looked to be the murder weapon.

Bob left the apartment, leaving Stephen alone inside, and walked to the corner of Spring Street and Main to help direct the first responders to the building in the upstairs apartment.

While he was waiting, he noticed that Stephen too had left the apartment and went into the Big Apple gas station store that was on the same corner he was standing.

Stephen opened the door of the Big Apple and started yelling right away.

Call the police, call the police, which was odd since he had just seen and heard Bob call the police.

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