![]() ![]() In his dying breaths, Terry told Ralph he was innocent and asked Ralph how he was going to clear his conscience after playing a role in Terry’s death.Įven though Ralph still believed Terry was guilty, he continued to investigate the murder not only to solve the mystery of Terry’s apparent ability to be in two places at once but also to make sure there was not a child killer still on the loose. Terry was shot by a bystander, the brother of Fred, when Terry was taken from the jail to the courthouse for arraignment. ![]() The damage was done by the public arrest. Ralph began to feel uneasy about what he had once thought was a slam-dunk arrest when Terry presented the cops with an alibi as well as witnesses who were with him in another town at the time of the murder. However, the district attorney and lead investigator had such a tight case against him in the murder and mutilation of Fred Peterson that Maitland was arrested in the middle of the semifinal game. Little League coach Terry Maitland did not have a criminal history. The unlikely pair use the fable of El Cuco, a Mexican ghost or monster, to keep the creature from killing again. Taught to follow the physical evidence, Ralph encountered amateur detective Holly Gibney who showed him that sometimes the supernatural does impact the natural world. ![]() In The Outsider by Stephen King, Detective Ralph Anderson was stumped when physical evidence placed a suspect for the brutal murder of a child in two different places at one time. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: King, Stephen. ![]()
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