Sally Robertson was waiting to testify at the civil trial. She had been forced to stay at a hotel for three days where she had no access to her computer or her phone or a TV. She had hidden the diary in her purse because she feared someone would find it. She thought about burning it and wondered if perhaps she should have done so months or even years ago.
She had no idea who was or who had testified. It wasn't going to be good.
The defense attorney for Harold Johnson, the serial killer who was suing the state of Florida smiled. For the past three days, he basically had done a character assassination on Molly Robertson. Very few objections. The best was yet to come. Now he was ready for Sally Robertson who hardly was a saint. She would be blamed for what happened to her niece basically.
Hotchner could do nothing and he knew that Sally Robertson would be going thru a character assassination similar to her niece He had warned her that this might happen and had told her he was powerless to do anything about it. . He knew that Sally had more or less prepared herself for her niece being attacked but he doubted that she was prepared for what the defense attorney was going to do to her on the stand which was an unknown. Sally had a lot of secrets, lots of secrets that she'd kept from people, including him. Some secrets were better kept secret. Some of them he found out about, but wasn't going to reveal them for obvious reasons. He knew more about Sally than he did Molly.
"Mrs. Robertson, as you told the court you were a member of a sorority at Daytona Beach Methodist College and your sorority often went out to the Lemon Drop Bar on Saturday nights?"
"Yep, we were there a lot."
"Do you remember this particular night?"
September 1982
Sally Section had spent much of the night flirting with Billy Morgan, who was in the Rock Band, The Magic Makers. He had finally noticed her and had gotten her phone number. He had asked her on stage when he his hands were all over her and she didn't seem to mind it.
"I went out with my sisters to a rock concert. So what?"
"Did Billy Morgan visit you at the sorority house?'
"Yes."
December 1982
Billy Morgan had purchased a very expensive VCR and had set up a camera in Sally's room. Billy Morgan had long jet black hair and blue eyes. He was smoking a cigarette, something he knew that Sally hated.
"Well, I got kicked out of my apartment for partying too much , so know I'm here crashing in Sally's room, well actually the suite room. Couldn't live in the same room as Sally. Because the sorority house is off campus, I'm able to do this, although I've had to hid in the bathroom or closet a couple of times to avoid being caught by Miss Tidesdale.
The camera went around the room.
"I tell you Sally is such a slob. Doesn't make her bed. This room … my mom would kill me if I kept my room like this. Her bra on the floor (yea she had big boobs, nice to the touch) and her dirty underwear (granny pants) on the floor. There's no laundry basket."
Billy paused for a moment before speaking. .
"Well, aren't these sexy? Clean briefs, something that Sally doesn't have many of. Women who wear this type of underwear are prudes and believe me Sally Section is a first class prude. High class one, that is. Why do you ask would I be with a prude. Well, several of the band members got a nasty disease from sleeping around that I don't want. I didn't get it, thank god. Sally Section until three months ago had never been with a man, so I knew she wouldn't give me some nasty disease. Sally only likes to do missionary and every time she's like a dead or cold fish who just lies there (can't tell if she's really enjoying it or just doing it because all of her sisters are). This girl has never ever fit it. How she got into a sorority is beyond me as she marches to the beat of a different drummer but so do most of them. The sorority of those who are strange, different or weird belong to. I mean they have to have some place to go don't they? I really, really getting bored with her but I need somewhere to live for a while, so once I get a new place, I'm out of here."
The door opened. For several minutes Billy Morgan berated her for having a messy room.
"I seriously believe that you Sally Section are somewhat mentally ill. Anyone who keeps a room like this most likely is."
"Well, it you believe that I'm mentally ill, Billy, then why do you stay with me?
Billy had no answer for her and went thru a bathroom which let into another room. He told Sally to leave him alone and slammed the door in her face. She went back into her room where she started sobbing.
Sally looked over and saw someone she hadn't seen in years sitting in the courtroom watching her every move. She had seen this person earlier and tried to ignore them. This was a warning to her and she knew it. She prayed this wouldn't come up as she didn't know what she would say if it did. Most likely Hotchner knew about it or do he?
Most people in the courtroom didn't notice Sally looking at this person but Hotchner did. He could tell that she was very uncomfortable by this person being in the room. He had no idea who this person was but as he was thinking about it, he had a good idea who had sent the person.
He had heard from sources who wouldn't confirm what they knew about Sally and her time in Finland. It concerned the royal family of Finland. Hotchner was told not to investigate this and he thought it best to leave this alone as it had nothing to do with Molly's murder.
February 14, 1983
"Finally, I've found a new girl and place to crash. I'm writing Sally a letter saying Goodbye. I'm leaving her for a normal girl, someone who likes having sex, not a dead lay. I will sign it Happy Valentine's day. I'm a really nice guy, aren't I?"
"How did that make your feel, Mrs. Robertson when Billy Morgan dumped you?"
"I moved on just as he did." said Sally matter of factually. She looked at the jury and told them that Billy broke up with the next girl within a couple of months and was unfaithful to all of them.
The judge warned Sally not to add comments unless asked.
It was evident by looking at her that decades later, she still was deeply hurt by his rejection and breakup. Everyone in the courthouse noticed this, despite what she said. A sorority sister told Hotchner that Sally cried every night for several weeks after the breakup and had also told the court the same, a couple of hours earlier.
Sally hadn't prepared herself for this. She had been preparing what to say about her niece. She had a good idea of what would be coming next and it wasn't good.
Billy Morgan went on to become a famous rock musician and had his own band. It surprised her that this hadn't come out sooner but the press was focused on Molly's relationship with Mark Malls.
Sally had no regrets about having an abortion a couple of weeks after Billy left her. She never told him she was pregnant and she told no one. She went by herself to a private doctor in Orlando and took a taxi back to Daytona (an expensive taxi ride). The doctor told her that this would never go on her medical records. She knew that it didn't. Otherwise this would be brought up. She also had several miscarriages that no one knew about which was why she wasn't dead somewhere.
She knew what type of man Billy was and he had never changed. He had dumped one of his girlfriends when she was 4 months pregnant, and left his first wife right before she gave birth. They had to sue him and take him to court for failing to pay child support. His ex-wife had him arrested for failing to pay child support. His reaction as he walked by her was to called her a bitch, spit at her and then said he was the victim. Every woman who dated, married or had children with him were treated badly.
Yet he had female fans of all ages who thought he couldn't do any wrong.
