Velocity Chapters 32-37

     Billy decided that the killer was talking about Barbara's death.  He also said that Barbara's death alone would not be enough to drive him to suicide because he had been preparing himself for it for years, so there must be something more than that coming.  He realized that if Barbara died, he would be framed for her murder because he is the sole heir of her several million dollar trust fund.  That would also bring up his name as a suspect in the other murders.  He got a tarp and some rope and laid Ralph's body on the tarp.  He searched the mans pockets and found a snapshot of him and a woman.  He also found a membership card from the American Society of Skeptics.  He kept those two items and rolled Ralph's body up in the tarp.  He planned on disposing of it during the night so he put the body behind his couch where no one could see it.  He got a phone call and when he answered it, the message was composed of different voice clips from narrated readings.  The message said "I will kill a pretty redhead.  If you say waste her i will kill her quickly.  Otherwise she will suffer much torture.  You have one minute to say waste her.  The choice is yours.  Billy thought it over and decided that he would have to cooperate because she would be killed either way.  When there were fifteen seconds left, he said "waste her."  The caller then hung up.  Billy drove to his lawyer's office and started to ask questions about who would be able to get to Barbara's money if he died.  The lawyer confirmed that there wouldn't be anyone who could get to it that Billy didn't approve of.  He then went to the store and bought a video camera to put inside his house so that he could catch the killer on tape.  His final stop was to the library.  He read up on some of Steve Zillis's history to see if there were any crimes in his past.  He found Steve's name associated with a disappearance of a young woman and printed off some articles to research them more.  When he was leaving the library, Sheriff Palmer was sitting at a table waiting to talk to him.  He started asking questions about his broken window and how Barbara was doing.  He asked Billy if he was still writing and said that his parents would be so proud.  Billy got upset and left.