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Evie was introduced to a famous musician named Mitch Lewis who sometimes visited the ranch. The other two got away, but Evie was caught by her neighbor and her mom sent her to stay in Palo Alto with her father as punishment.
Evie quickly became bored of living with her father and ran away. She hitchhiked back to the ranch, but since she had been gone, things had gotten a lot worse. Mitch had failed to get Russell a record deal, which Russell felt that he had been promised. Evie joined them in the car but on the way their Suzanne kicked her out of the car and left her alone on the roadside. Evie was too frightened to tell anyone what she knew. Evie started attending her new boarding school and one day Suzanne visited her there while Russell and the others waited for her on the bus.
Suzanne told Evie that they knew she would not tell anyone about the murders.
Later, the whole group was arrested in the desert and went on to become famous for their crimes. In her older years, Evie reflected that by not being involved in the murders, she had been made permanently invisible, whereas Suzanne had gained attention and redemption for the crimes she had committed. Read more from the Study Guide.
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