13.5 Holidays Can Be Murder by Connie Shelton
Author:Connie Shelton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Secret Staircase Books
Published: 2009-10-11T04:00:00+00:00
Chapter 8
It was no secret that Judy didnât much like her mother-in-law, but to think she would have killed Paula seemed ludicrous. We were only kidding around.
âYouâre not seriousâsurely.â
âWell, letâs just say that the questions were going one way when they first got hereâwhat time did we get home, where had we been, was Paula alone when we left, that kind of thing. Then one of the officers whoâd been outside came back in the house and there was a little whispered discussion between him and that chubby, bald cop.â
Kent Taylor.
âAnd then the questions started being about my relationship with Paula. Did we ever fight? Did we have words last night? That kind of thing.â
Oh, boy. I guess I wasnât the only one Judyâd made little remarks to.
âDo you want to go over it again?â I asked. âTell me what happened last night, the sequence of events?â
She drained her cup and shrugged. âSure.â She carried the mug to the sink and ran some water into it.
âWilbur and I were invited to dinner at the home of some people we know from church. They live off Rio Grande, in that new subdivision west of Old Town.â
âOkay.â
âWe left here at six. Dinner wasnât really ready, so we sat around and talked awhile, drank some iced tea. It was actually refreshing to be around people who donât drink, after the week with Paulaâs . . . you know.
âSo, anyway, we ate about seven-thirty, Iâd guess. Then we started a domino game that went on for quite awhile. I developed a horrible headache. I thought it might be a migraine coming on. The game was really in high gear and Wilbur didnât want to leave, so Norma told me to lie down in their guestroom for awhile. I dozed off and must have been in there for an hour or more. But when I woke up the headache was gone.â
Sheâd been pacing the length of the kitchen while she related all this. Now she sat down again.
âWe left their house around eleven, eleven-fifteen. When we walked in the front door, there was Paula, on the sofa.â She squeezed her eyes shut like she wanted to erase the picture. âYou know, at first I thought sheâd passed out there. Her head was on a pillow and one arm and one leg kind of hung over the edge. She was just, you know, sprawled out. Wilbur and I were just talking about whether to wake her up to go to bed when I noticed the blood.â
She paused and swallowed.
âWilbur wanted to revive her. He kept shaking her. I called 911 but she was already . . .â
âIt must have been so frightening.â
âIt was. Charlie, Iâve only ever seen one dead person, and that was at a funeral home. This was . . . really . . .â
âItâs okay. Itâs over now.â
âI just . . . I canât figure out why someone did this.â
âLike robbery? Did you check the rest of the house? Maybe they broke in to steal something.
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