1. This is where I become really irritated with Srebnick's treatment of the coroner's evidence. She seems to want to dismiss it mere exploitation (and therefore untruthful?) and certainly not as trustworthy as Frederika Loss's confession ("Despite the public disclosure that Rogers died as the result of an abortion, the death of Mary Rogers has historically remained an unsolved mystery: a curious denial of this most plausible explanation" (32)), and therefore it's really hard to tell what that evidence might or might not actually show.

2. She does mention Payne's suicide, although she makes no effort to incorporate it into her narrative of Rogers' life and death. As best I can tell, she seems to think Payne was Rogers' dupe and therefore irrelevant.