The chapter opens with a news excerpt announcing the investigation into the stabbing death of Kelly Summers at Adam Morgan’s lake house on Lake Manassas. Authorities brought Adam in for questioning but released no further details at that time.

In a later interview, the interviewer marks the upcoming eight-year anniversary of Kelly’s murder, noting her body was found in the primary bedroom. Adam states he cannot speak to the murder itself, only to events before and after: Kelly visited after work; they drank and had sex multiple times.

Adam explains that he awoke in the night in complete darkness, believed Kelly was sleeping, and left quietly to drive back to Washington, DC. He says he left a letter for Kelly on the kitchen counter. He learned of Kelly’s death the next day when officers from DC Metro and Prince William County brought him in for questioning, at which point they informed him of her murder.

Pressed on his relationship to Kelly, Adam admits she was his mistress. Confronted with arguments used at trial—that it was implausible he slept through or missed a mutilated body and that Kelly was stabbed thirty-seven times—Adam counters that he and Kelly were drugged, comparing his unawareness to a patient under anesthesia. He emphasizes the room was pitch-black when he left.

The interviewer notes that Kelly’s toxicology showed GHB, but Adam’s did not. Adam blames delayed testing that occurred after the window of detection had lapsed, attributing it to either intent or sloppy police work. He claims he was set up and names possible suspects: Kelly’s husband, Scott; an unknown individual whose DNA was found inside Kelly; and Bob Miller, brother of Kelly’s first husband.

Adam describes hearing the guilty verdict as the end of his life and asserts he was wrongfully convicted. He says The Innocence Project declined his case but vows to keep appealing, insisting he still has hope. The interviewer highlights that Adam remains on death row and that his wife, Sarah Morgan, who defended him at trial, has stayed married to him; Adam attributes her commitment to her love and belief in his innocence.