A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1) - Holly Jackson Page 0,1
if you’d be willing to be interviewed for my project.’
‘What’s it about?’ His dark eyebrows hugged closer to his eyes.
‘Um . . . it’s about what happened five years ago.’
Ravi exhaled loudly, his lip curling up in what looked like pre-sprung anger.
‘Why?’ he said.
‘Because I don’t think your brother did it – and I’m going to try to prove it.’
Pippa Fitz-Amobi
EPQ 01/08/2017
Production Log – Entry 1
Interview with Ravi Singh booked in for Friday afternoon (take prepared questions).
Type up transcript of interview with Angela Johnson.
The production log is intended to chart any obstacles you face in your research, your progress and the aims of your final report. My production log will have to be a little different: I’m going to record all the research I do here, both relevant and irrelevant, because, as yet, I don’t really know what my final report will be, nor what will end up being relevant. I don’t know what I’m aiming for. I will just have to wait and see what position I am in at the end of my research and what essay I can therefore bring together. [This is starting to feel a little like a diary???]
I’m hoping it will not be the essay I proposed to Mrs Morgan. I’m hoping it will be the truth. What really happened to Andie Bell on the 20th April 2012? And – as my instincts tell me – if Salil ‘Sal’ Singh is not guilty, then who killed her?
I don’t think I will actually solve the case and discover the person who murdered Andie. I’m not a police officer with access to a forensics lab (obviously) and I am also not deluded. But I’m hoping that my research will uncover facts and accounts that will lead to reasonable doubt about Sal’s guilt, and suggest that the police were mistaken in closing the case without digging further.
So my research methods will actually be: interviewing those close to the case, obsessive social media stalking and wild, WILD speculation.
[DON’T LET MRS MORGAN SEE ANY OF THIS!!!]
The first stage in this project then is to research what happened to Andrea Bell – known as Andie to everyone – and the circumstances surrounding her disappearance. This information will be taken from news articles and police press conferences from around that time.
[Write your references in now so you don’t have to do it later!!!]
Copied and pasted from the first national news outlet to report on her disappearance:
‘Andrea Bell, 17, was reported missing from her home in Little Kilton, Buckinghamshire, last Friday.
She left home in her car – a black Peugeot 206 – with her mobile phone, but did not take any clothes with her. Police say her disappearance is “completely out of character”.
Police have been searching woodland near the family home over the weekend.
Andrea, known as Andie, is described as white, five feet six inches tall, with long blonde hair. It is thought that she was wearing dark jeans and a blue cropped jumper on the night she went missing.’ 1
After everything happened, later articles had more detail as to when Andie was last seen alive and the time window in which she is believed to have been abducted.
Andie Bell was ‘last seen alive by her younger sister, Becca, at around 10:30 p.m. on the 20th April 2012.’ 2
This was corroborated by the police in a press conference on Tuesday 24th April: ‘CCTV footage taken from a security camera outside STN Bank on Little Kilton High Street confirms that Andie’s car was seen driving away from her home at about 10:40 p.m.’ 3
According to her parents, Jason and Dawn Bell, Andie was ‘supposed to pick (them) up from a dinner party at 12:45 a.m.’ When Andie didn’t show up or answer any of their phone calls, they started ringing her friends to see if anyone knew of her whereabouts. Jason Bell ‘called the police to report his daughter missing at 3:00 a.m. Saturday morning.’ 4
So whatever happened to Andie Bell that night, happened between 10:40 p.m. and 12:45 a.m.
Here seems a good place to type up the transcript from my telephone interview yesterday with Angela Johnson.
Transcript of interview with Angela Johnson from the Missing Persons Bureau
Angela:
Hello.
Pip:
Hi, is this Angela Johnson?
Angela:
Speaking, yep. Is this Pippa?
Pip:
Yes, thanks so much for replying to my email.
Angela:
No problem.
Pip:
Do you mind if I record this interview so I can type it up later to use in my project?
Angela:
Yeah, that’s fine. I’m sorry I’ve only got about ten minutes to give you. So what do you want to know