) FirtHy Ricw ERSON : ) On September 11, a young woman named Alison gets pulled va lies. “He said that a very | over by the police.* She’s carrying a small amount of marijuana. =e . The patrol officer handcuffs her and puts her in the back of his | vehicle. But Alison’s been in the back of a police car before, and | she’s cocky and canny enough to pivot the conversation away a from the dime bag she’s been busted with. She tells the officer a vou Fourteen, fifteen years remarkable story about an older man engaging in sexual activi- aia aes ties with high school girls. Alison knows about it firsthand, she nent, makes a few scratches in says. She's been going to the house on El Brillo Way since she : was sixteen. . do with that for . At first the cop’s skeptical. He hasn’t heard about the investi- i aceite gation into Jeffrey Epstein’s affairs. And, after all, Alison is a sing journalist will put enough 7 burnout. But back at the station, he finds out that Alison has not f the picture. Sooner or later, been ballsbating him, it. Maybe a cop's girlfriend gets ie investigation is real. | ions it to her hus- Alison’s name and cell phone number match up with messages ne eu Maybe the } that have been pulled from Epstein’s trash. Instead of copping to alfing buddy tn tanh. 97 = a misdemeanor, she becomes another Jane Doe in the case that blitzed off those mar- % Chief Reiter's colleague, Detective Joe Recarey, is building against af na = ba Jeffrey Epstein. : aL hat point, Chief Reit- 1 4 The story Alison ends up telling is extremely disturbing. aa At ee _ one side He Like Mary, she says, she was recruited in high school. She eras Nels oe i all ides 7 a tells cops that Epstein would call her his “number one girl” — ehiet sis = a dive on q a although, she suspects, there were many others. Reiter's investigation, SNe P j a Recarey takes her statement. In the excerpts that follow sole tht wa ; s i peecribed from a tape recording made by the Palm Beach pieces of the puzzle kee