Anteneh: Oh ok. So Sally how do you know Fay Carson?
Ms. Gilda: You sound just like those cops.
Anteneh: You do not have to do this if you do not want to.
Ms. Gilda: No its alright I have nothing better to do anyway. Well, Fay and me used to be roommates a few years back. We used to be real good friends. We used to work at the Blue Rose nightclub together. She used to dance and I used to sing.
Anteneh: According to police reports you and Fay had some conflicts and you moved out, is that correct?
Ms. Gilda: Yes
Anteneh: Can you please tell us what happened?
Ms. Gilda: Well it all started when she started falling for her partner Maurice Yarde. She started going crazy about him. One day she brought him to the apartment and introduced him to me. From that moment on, I could not stop thinking about him I fell in love with him to. I tried to tell Fey things that would make her stop loving him. I told her that he followed me everywhere and that he forced himself on me once. After all the stuff, I said to her she still would not believe me instead she quarreled with me saying that I let him on me. I was so fed up so I left the apartment. I did not want to stay in town so I left. Shortly after I left, I heard that Yarde left Fay and that he left town.
Anteneh: Did you ever meet Yarde ever again?
Ms. Gilda: Yes. I meet him at a mall a few months after I left Fey. He told me that the reason he left Fey was for me because he liked me and that he was frustrated that I left town so he left too.
Anteneh: So did anything happen after you guys met?
Ms. Gilda: Well we started meeting up and got closer and closer. We dated for about a year so we decided to get married. We got married and started living in Atlanta.
Anteneh: If you were married to Yarde then why were you making plans of getting married with Séan O’Brien?
Ms. Gilda: Oh him. I met him at a bar where I work. He said that he had a better job for me I did not refuse because anything was better than being a bartender and me and Yarde needed the money. I went to where he told me to come. I gave me a job that makes a good salary. I did not really know why he did that but later I found out that he was fond of me. He was very nice to me and kinda handsome so I decided to go for him because he had a lot of cash. After a few weeks his company moved so, I went along. I made a stupid excuse and left Yarde but we never really had an official divorce.
Séan’s company moved to my old town. At first, I thought that it was a bad idea to go back but I did not see what would go wrong. A few months after Séan’s company moved I found out that he had bought the Blue Rose. One day he asked me if I could sing for him there. At first, I refused because I would be facing Fay but I realized that it does not really matter if we meet so I accepted his offer at the end. During the time that I had been working for him, we got closer to each other. A few weeks after I started singing, he proposed to me and I agreed.
Anteneh: Did Yarde find out about what you were doing?
Ms. Gilda: The news of my marriage with Séan was all over the newspapers so it was not hard for him to find out.
Anteneh: Did Yarde do anything after he found out about the wedding?
Ms. Gilda: Yeah. He called me one day and told me that if I do not come back to him that he will show our wedding paper to Séan. I refused because I knew that I would have a better future if I stayed with Séan.
Anteneh: How did Yarde react after you refused?
Ms. Gilda: He went completely crazy. He said that he would ruin me. I did not really take him seriously so I forget about it. A few weeks later, he called me and told me that he was in town and that he is still going along with his plan. I knew that if he showed the marriage certificate to Séan my life will be over. Séan will make sure that I have a miserable life. Therefore, I had to do something quickly. I went to the only place I knew Yarde will go which was the Washington Hotel. Sean owned the place so I had no trouble getting in. I went to Yarde’s room to see if he had the marriage certificate but I could not find it. I asked around to see where he might be and they told me that he went to the Blue Rose. At that moment, I knew that he wanted to ruin me for sure by telling Fay that he is married to me and Fay will tell Sean about it so that she can get back at me. Therefore, I went there straight away but he was not there. When I asked around about him they told me that he was asking for my address and that he wants to talk to me about an urgent matter. I knew that he was going to come threaten me again at my apartment so I went back to the apartment. A few minutes after I arrived he came. The second I opened the door he grabbed me by the neck and started choking me. He put me on the bed and kept on choking. I tried to look for anything that I can attack him with. All of a sudden, I felt an ice pick and without knowing, I flung it at him and stabbed him in the gut. At that moment, I got so scared. I did not know what to do. While he was dying, he told me that I will still be ruined even if he died because he told Fay everything and that she will tell Sean everything and give him the marriage certificate. After saying those words, he died. I was so scared at the thought of a dead man in my apartment. I didn’t know what to do with him so I dragged him to the kitchen and put him in the deep freezer.
After I took care of Yarde, I went to Fay’s apartment to finish her off because she was a major threat to me. When I got there, I saw that she wasn’t there. I got into the apartment using the copy of the key I have. I found the marriage certificate in one of the drawers and took it. I was just about to leave when I heard someone unlock the apartment door so I hid in the bedroom. Soon I realized that it was Fay and one of her guy friends. I was nervous at that point because I was scared that they will find me. While I was thinking of a plan of what to do, Fay entered the bedroom. I was hiding behind the curtain so she could not see me. I slowly went down to the floor and picked up an ice pick that was lying there. I wanted to end her life right there. I crept from behind while she was changing. All of a sudden, she turned and I was so scared that I just stabbed her on her bare chest and she fell face first on the bed. To my relief she didn’t make a single sound. To escape without being seen by the man in the leaving room I cut the fuse which was in her bedroom and crept out of the apartment.
Anteneh: How is your brother involved in all of this?
Ms. Gilda: Well a few years back my brother came to town after leaving the navy to visit me. He came over to the Blue Rose and saw Fay. According to him the moment he saw her he fell in love with her so he started going after her. She didn’t want anything to do with him but when she found out that he was my brother, she started dating him so that she can get back at me. They dated for about a few months and one day he heard from one of his friends that she was a call girl. That made him so furious so he went to her apartment and beat her up bad. If it weren’t for her neighbors, he would have killed her. When Fay died he became one of the suspects because of his past experiences with her. He was killed in a crossfire between the police and some of Sean’s men.
Anteneh: Thank you for your time Ms. Gilda.
