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"2C COURIER-POST, Thursday, July 2, 1992 Author asks heartbreaking question: 'Who killed my daughter? pened, the facts, everybody's names spelled correctly, every time we met with the police, and I started taping all the phone calls when we got the death threats." Continued from Page 1C script box that held her daughter's story to the cemetery. "Here's your present, honey," Duncan says she whispered to Kait. "I'm going to get your killer." And then Duncan took the package to the post office to be mailed off to Delacorte. "The book really wrote itself," says Duncan, a soft-spoken, small, composed woman. "I kept a daily journal.

I got everything that happened, what time of day it hap- potential informants to ward and supply her with missing information nmfe. the identity of Kait's kill. book contains a note at Hi. about tipsters, advising write to Duncan, in care publisher, with copies of letters to be mailed to the general of the state of One psychic believes she who the killer is. But the cops close in on him, tin i the shooting of Kaitlyn Ar not closed.

of town his sacrifice to the cause," says Duncan). No, it isn't that they're afraid for their lives, although Duncan believes the book might produce another shooting by someone who is enraged by the allegations. Three years later after her death, Kait is, according to the psychics, less agitated than when she first died, but she is still urging Lois Duncan to solve the case. It is Duncan's hope that Who Killed My Daughter: 'will motivate VVVVVVVVV refused to look into. It was a start in trying to put together the pieces of the puzzle.

Duncan and the psychics came to believe Kaitlyn knew too much. Her boyfriend, the book claims, was involved in a multimillion-dollar rental car insurance scam in California, and possibly in drugs. Other clues from the psychics led into the dark underworld of the Vietnamese Mafia, drug-running in Texas, California and New Mexico, and Hispanic hitmen. There were foiled arrests and botched leads. Two men were arrested for Kait's murder, but when new, conflicting evidence surfaced months later, the district attorney had no choice but to withdraw charges against the alleged hitman and his accomplice.

One of the most fascinating aspects of the Arquette investigation is Duncan's involvement with the psychics and the information she gleaned from the readings they gave her. Duncan and her husband have left Albuquerque and are staying in temporary quarters until they decide where to settle. Don Arquette, an engineer, took an early retirement in order to get out Cloth Work The death threats began when Duncan and her husband began to exhaustively investigate the case themselves. Not for a second did they believe Kait's death was a random shooting. Not for a moment did they feel that her boy-' friend knew nothing about what happened.

The Albuquerque police staunchly stood by their "random shooting" theory, and felt that the Arquette family was too aggressively involved in the case. Duncan says the police stopped communicating with her and her husband the day they pointed out to the cops that a love note Kait allegedly left for her boyfriend in their apartment was not in her handwriting. And so, Duncan started to work on her own. First, she enlisted the help of four professional psychics in various parts of the country and then hired private investigators. She also turned to an aggressive Albuquerque Journal reporter named Mike Gallagher, who followed up on leads the police fii.ao i SABA By Gannett News Service In happier times: Author Lois Duncan with daughter Kaitlyn Arquette, who was 1 2 at the time.

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