Twenty minutes earlier, Judge Bennett had heard Gus’s guilty plea. Phil Anderson, the Hammond County Prosecuting Attorney, advised the judge that the State had agreed to a sentence of time served. Bennett had questioned Gus. Did he understand that he was giving up the rights to a jury trial and to cross-examine his accusers? That he was waiving his privilege against self-incrimination? Gus had answered yes to both. He denied that anyone had forced him to accept the settlement. The judge had sentenced him to eighteen years in prison, adjourned the hearing, and invited the lawyers, Gus, and his two guards to join him in chambers. There, Nora and Phil Anderson completed the required paperwork. The guards who’d accompanied Gus from Walla Walla didn’t wait for that formality. Quickly, t