Q: Identify yourself please
A: Benjamin Chevron, news reporter for the Tribune News.

Q: Can you explain how you ended up at the scene of a crime?
A: I received an anonymous phone call. The caller said that someone liked my article a year ago about the questionable death of presidential candidate Matthew Mallison The caller said I brought up some important questions and that I was closer than anyone might guess as to what really happened.

Q: Did the caller explain what they meant?
A: I asked, and the person said that if I were to go to the Dew Drop Inn tonight at 11:00 pm, I would learn the truth about what happened there a year ago.

Q: Was the caller a man or a woman?
A: A woman, I believe, but I'm not sure, as the voice was muffled. It may have been a man trying to sound like a woman.

Q: Did the caller ever identify herself?
A: No. Just that she was calling for an associate, to relay the message.

Q: Was that the entire message?
A: Yes - the first message. But she wanted my cell number and said her associate would call me later tonight.

Q: What happened next?
A: I went to the Dew Drop Inn, of course. You know that. You picked me up there. I was the one that found the body.

Q: We know that. When did you arrive at the Dew Drop Inn?
A: 10:30 pm, I was early.

Q: How did you happen to find the body?
A: I got another call on my cell phone.

Q: What time?
A: I'm not sure. It was late. I had been hanging out at the Dew Drop Inn, in room 107 since 10:30. I saw some woman check-in that appeared to be too well dressed to be customers of the Dew Drop.

Q: What do you mean by that?
A: What do I mean by that? You know what I mean by that. That's a place truckers go after picking girls up at the rest stop or calling for an escort on their cell phones. It's a dive that caters to to the drive by crowd. Hourly rates. Those two women were business women. They were there for a reason. I talked to the hotel clerk, but he wasn't very helpful. He just kept complaining how the management didn't give him free sodas and how he had to always buy them from the machines that didn't work half the time.

Q: Did you get another call on your cell phone?
A: Yeah - it was after midnight. I was about ready to call it quits, when the woman called again. She said her associate was interested in giving me an interview - about the Mallison murder. She said I was to meet him in room 101 at 1:30 am

Q: Him?
A: Yes, she said "him". And she said go to room 101 at exactly 1:30 am, not a minute before or after - or the interview would be off.

Q: But you were seen going into room 101 closer to 1:20.
A: By who? Those people in the parking lot?

Q: Yes. Why did you go to the room before 1:30?
A: Just in case. I'm a reported, we're impatient and nosey. We'd rather be early than miss something.

Q: When you went inside room 101, what did you see or hear?
A: Well, I said hello first. Then I heard a noise, which must have come from the center hallway. I went to the center hall door, but found it locked. Then out of the side of my eye I saw something strange, in the center bathroom.

Q: The door was open?
A: Yes. There were some clothes on the floor and there was steam rising from the tub. But the water was red - and there was a body in the tub. A man.

Q: Was he dressed or naked?
A: Naked. Most people take baths that way.

Q:Most people don't take baths in their own blood.
A: Good point.

Q: Could you see how he died?
A: No. I didn't look very carefully. It wasn't a pleasant sight. I just ran out and dialed 911 on my cell phone right away. I didn't want anyone to think I had anything to do with it. I went back to my room and tried not to throw up. I was a bit shaken. I just practiced my breathing exercises. Soon the police knocked on my door. You know the rest.