Elwood Blatch, a violent burglar, is a large man, “mostly bald,” with “green eyes set way down deep in the sockets.” He shared a prison cell with Tommy Williams in Rhode Island, four years before Tommy is incarcerated in Maine’s Shawshank prison. After Tommy learns why Andy Dufresne is in Shawshank, he reveals to Andy that Blatch once bragged to him about murdering Glenn Quentin and Andy’s wife, Linda Collins Dufresne during a burglary. Andy remembers a man matching Tommy’s description of Elwood Blatch working at the Falmouth Hills Country Club, which he and Linda attended and where Glenn Quentin was a golf instructor. When he tells Tommy’s story to Warden Samuel Norton, Norton—who wants to keep Andy in prison and laundering his money—claims not to believe it. Norton may even arrange Blatch’s early parole so that any lawyer Andy might hire won’t be able to find Blatch. That no one ever holds Blatch accountable for Linda and Glenn’s murders—while Andy is wrongfully incarcerated for decades—demonstrates the failure of the U.S. criminal justice system to dispense justice.