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Summoned by a neighbor, Los Angeles police came. Daphne and Deborah, still faintly breathing, were rushed to the hospital, where they died from fractured skulls. Chloe herself had a slight scalp wound which had to be treated. Her head swathed in a bandage, blue eyes wide and unblinking, she told her story...
...Chloe wrested the hammer away from her mother. Her mother tried to set Chloe's hair on fire, then tried to set fire to her own hair, and her nightgown, which flared up, burned away and left her naked. Then she made Chloe help her drag a mattress into the hallway, and lay down on it. "She told me to hit her over the head and to keep on hitting her until she couldn't talk." Chloe obeyed, struck her mother "about 20 times before the head of the hammer came off, then about 30 more times with...
Four times Chloe fetched her mother a drink, each time drank a little water herself. On one trip to the sink she heard a whimper from Marquis, who was lying on the kitchen floor. "I went back and asked mother if I shouldn't put Marquis out of his misery. She nodded, so I went and hit him about three times, until he was still." The last glass of water Chloe got she had to pour down her mother's throat because Lolita Davis had "gone out". Chloe washed, dressed, and went out to telephone her father...
...Chloe, police learned, enjoyed a high rating for intelligence in her school, where she was a year ahead of her class. She was an avid reader of fiction, newspapers, crime stories. She told this nightmare tale with stupendous composure. Throughout her questioning, she stuck to her story, said finally: "I'd like to have some soup and a piece of lemon cream pie." Steadfast in his belief that Chloe was telling the truth was her stricken father...
Barton Davis told police his wife had been mentally ill for some time, had talked of committing suicide, had told him that she was pursued by demons. Final confirmation of Chloe's story was provided by her belated recollection: "While mother was begging me to hit her with the hammer she asked me for a razor blade. I got one and gave it to her, and watched her slash her wrists." An autopsy confirmed the unsuspected fact...