Early the next morning, Max drove to Miami-Dade PD headquarters and went to the library. He looked up micro-fiche articles on Kathleen Reveaux's suicide. It had made the front page of the Herald on Thursday 11 May 1978. She'd jumped from the top of the Freedom Tower in the early hours of Wednesday morning. There were no witnesses. The body had been discovered by construction workers.
The following day the story had been bumped down to a third-page column: Reveaux was identified, and her family and friends were quoted as saying she'd become increasingly disturbed since her return from a trip to New York the previous month.
By Friday 26 May, another column, again on the third page, said the police had ruled out foul play and were marking her death as a suicide. The report mentioned that 'numerous occult objects' had been found in her house on South Miami Avenue, before going on to describe her career as a celebrity fortune teller.
Max then went down to Records.
Kathleen Reveaux's file was thin: incident report, coroner's report, witness statements (two) and twenty photographs.
A Detective Billue had caught the case. His report stated that, based on the damage to the victim's body-head, legs and arms all fractured in multiple places-the victim had fallen from a considerable height, estimated to be the upper floors of the Freedom Tower.
The victim was wearing blue Levi's, a white blouse, white socks and one Adidas tennis shoe on her left foot. Recovered near the scene was the right tennis shoe. Screwed up in her hand was a tarot card: the King of Swords.
Max made a photocopy of the file and took the elevator down to evidence to see if they'd kept anything from the case. All personal effects in suicides were usually destroyed if the next of kin didn't claim them.
There was nothing, but Kathleen's sister had signed for her belongings-her bloodstained clothes and shoes, and the tarot card.
Her address was in Gainesville.
Max called her up and made an appointment to go by her house that evening.