Jewellery as Crime
December 24, 2009
“Souvenirs”, Scarpetta said. “Maybe a killer who takes souvenirs and leaves one. If we consider the possibility that the ankle bracelet was put on the body by the killer, possibly after the murder. Like the silver rings in that case you had in California years ago. Four coeds, and in each homicide, the killer put a silver ring on the victim’s wedding finger. But the symbolism of a silver ring strikes me as completely different from an ankle bracelet.”
“One is possession – as in, with this ring, I make you mine,” Benton said. “The other is control – as in, I’m putting a shackle around your ankle. I own you.”
Patricia Cornwell, Scarpetta. Great Britain: Sphere, 2008, p.214.
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