A brief respite from the bleakness: Testimony at trial of police killers was a gift of normalcy
“Ms. Cece’s diary, found near the crime scene in the women’s abandoned bags and introduced into evidence yesterday, may hold a clue…Her lawyers seemed not unhappy at the diary becoming evidence; after all, Ms. Cece’s scribblings arguably show her, in the days just before the killing, as they maintain she was — drug-addled, depressed beyond bearing, longing for a real home in the country and pets and peace, talking of suicide (she referred to overdosing on “heroine”) and reasonably articulate.”