Ellen, aka Colestah[1], took considerable time and effort to set up the accident. 

She purchased an old Cadillac that was built like a tank. She wanted something reliable enough to protect her. She even had a roll bar installed to ensure she would be protected. 

She rented an apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts just two miles from Harvard Square. It was a converted three-family apartment house, in Inman Square, with each level dedicated to a single family. It was redesigned to be a high-end student loft and, it was perfect for her purpose. 

It had large beams crisscrossing under the vaulted ceiling that she rigged with a hoist, chains, and leg and wrist cuffs. Once she caught Clay, she would hoist him up like a pig for the slaughter and then torture him until he begged for her to kill him. 

When she got through with him, he would welcome death, but that's when she would stop and let him recover so she could torture him again and again. Then finally in one glorious moment she would kill him and then kill herself. That way, she could follow him in death and spend the rest of eternity getting even.

[1] Colestah was a Yakima Native American medicine woman, psychic, and warrior. She carried a stone club into battle and was known as a ferocious warrior. It was also Ellen Sharpe’s Code name with the CIA and the code name was well placed.