The Devil_s Workshop

PRIONS

She opened it to a section she had labeled:

Then she turned the binder to a fresh page and wrote:

"Dr. Sidney Saunders, DDS."

"Near death at 10:30-07/16/99. Condition appears to be neuro-related."

Below that she wrote: "The death resembles no condition before observed. Probable iatrogenic infection, homicidal rage, followed by status epilepticus. Mosquito vector." Then she wrote a detailed medical account of Sid Saunders's bizarre homicidal pre-death behavior.

Also pasted in the binder were several long-lens photos of Charles Lack and Dexter DeMille, along with both men's scientific histories. Under Dr. DeMille's bio, Stacy wrote the new information Dr. Lack had provided: "DeMille is unstable, dissociative, and suicidal." Yet it was stable, fun-loving, nonsuicidal Max who had supposedly stuck a twelve-gauge shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.