there was no gunshot. he said he did it between the house and the garage. you would have heard that, surely? i definitely would have heard it. and there were the clothes denis said wendy wore. a little sweater and jogging pants. couldn t be true, because of my recollection of the morning. he said she was wearing totally different clothes than i saw her leave with. and something else bothered him, something denis told his crime buddyes when they asked him if he was capable of murder. earlier on in the mr. big sting, he confessed to killing a man with rat poison. turned out he died of natural causes. never happened. so it was a fake confession? it was. why lie? gabriel said denis was desperate to be accepted by his new tough guy friends. and if he lied about one murder, why not lie about killing wendy too? especially when what was at stake was his acceptance in the gang and his new job, which he loved, as mr. big s loyal foot