over the background din , kling was telling sharyn there 'd been an extraordinary number of people informing on other people in this case they 'd just wrapped , a veritable chorus of rats singing to whoever would listen , when all at once a blond woman on the panel said something about the `` so-called blue wall of silence , '' and sharyn said , `` shhh , '' and someone else on the panel , a black man , shouted that the blue wall of silence would n't be holding in the milagros case if the victim had been white , and someone else , a white man , shouted , `` this poor victim you 're talking about is a murdererl '' and kling said , `` milagros is one of the guys i mean , '' and sharyn said `` shhh '' again , when all he 'd wanted to say was that hector milagros had been given up by maxie blaine who 'd been given up by betty young in a case virtually defined by perpetual snitchery .