04.Die.My.Love.2007 (26 page)

5here was little Piper appeared to enjoy more than time with her children, here with Paxton and Callie on the beach.

Photo courtesy of Loni Gosnell

'rom the beginning, Piper,

pictured here at a neighbor-

hood party, stood out from

the other women, those she

labeled “Stepford wives.”

-oni Gosnell was Piper’s best

friend. “She taught me how

to enjoy life,” she says. “How

to drink my wine out of my

best crystal, and not save it for

a day that never happened.”

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'rom the outside, all ap-

peared happy at the

Rountree-Jablin house on

Hearthglow Lane. What

went on inside, however,

was far from tranquil.

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0ver the years, his of-

fice at the University

of Richmond Campus

became a refuge for

Fred Jablin, as life at

home became ever more

chaotic.

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1iper’s business card

was as unusual as she

was. On the immediate

left, the dark winged an-

gel of justice she painted

for the card.

1iper’s fish, Soul Rays.

The children helped

her paint it, and it memo-

rialized the loss of children

who grieved as her own

children would just a few

years later.

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*n this glass block, Piper

Rountree immortalized

a young boy’s loss: his

father’s suicide, a bullet

suspended in the glass.

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"t her clinic in an old house in Houston, Tina Rountree was well known, caring for many women in the neighborhood.

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$aptain Stem had been with

Henrico County for more )enrico County Investigator Coby Kelley loved the

than two decades, and he’d challenge of an investigation, watched police work change getting the suspect to open up with scientific advances.

and confess.

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4et back off the road, behind a strip center and a line of trees, the Homestead Suites was a perfect place to hide.

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