The characters / Recurring character
Ralph Anderson
Ralph Anderson is recorded in 2 distinct storys.
The Outsider depicts Detective Ralph Anderson. If It Bleeds identifies him as Holly’s police friend from Oklahoma and explicitly recalls their case ending in a Texas cave. The Oklahoma detective in The Outsider is explicitly Holly’s police friend in If It Bleeds. Storm of the Century’s Ralph is a four-year-old child of Mike and Molly, a separate person.
Stories and supporting passages
If It Bleeds
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Everything she is, everything she has, she owes to Bill. There’s no one like him, although Ralph Anderson, her police detective friend from Oklahoma, comes close. “What have we got today, Georgie, my brother from another mother?”
Holly explicitly recalls her police detective friend from Oklahoma.
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In January of 2021, a small padded envelope addressed to Detective Ralph Anderson is delivered to the Conrads, the Andersons’ next-door neighbors. The Anderson family is on an extended vacation in the Bahamas, thanks to an endless teachers’ strike in the Andersons’ home county.
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The Outsider
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3 The Estelle Barga parking lot was almost as big as the one at the Kroger’s where Ralph Anderson and his wife shopped on Saturday afternoons, and on this July evening it was totally filled.
The narrator identifies Ralph’s family routine while locating the arrest scene.
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2 Statement of Mr Jonathan Ritz [July 10th, 9:30 PM, interviewed by Detective Ralph Anderson] Detective Anderson: I know you’re upset, Mr Ritz, it’s understandable, but I need to know exactly what you saw earlier this evening. Ritz: I’ll never get it out of my mind. Never.
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