Alki Point by Henry Walton

Author:Henry Walton [Walton, Henry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780578677330
Publisher: Forrell Publishing
Published: 2020-06-06T22:00:00+00:00

Suspects

Terry looked out the window after her and then turned to Reed.

“Sorry about that. It is probably better she is not here. I keep worrying that I’ll slip and say something about Kim and Keith spending time with each other. That would worry her sick.”

“I understand. Did you find anything else out from McManus?”

“A little. Keith and Kim met on Wednesday after school in her car. They talked for a while and he gave something to her but didn’t say what it was. Whatever he handed Kim, she reacted by running from the car. Keith chased her part way across the lot but then she stopped and waited for him. They talked for a minute and she returned to her car. The bug under her dashboard couldn’t catch their conversation outside, so we don’t know what they talked about or what he gave her.”

Reed’s secret meeting with Terry’s daughter Thursday morning and knowledge of the bag of cutting instruments stabbed at him as painful as any knife could, but he steeled himself to hold that information in confidence until he knew more. He shifted the conversation to the investigation in Marissa’s hometown.

“So, what have the police found out in Gig Harbor? What did the Archer’s have to say?”

“Mrs. Archer is devastated. The last time she saw Marissa was Friday evening. She was still in bed on Saturday morning when her daughter went out. She thought Marissa was just out for the day.”

“And Mr. Archer?”

“The last time he saw her was Saturday morning. She told him that she was going out for the day and evening but didn’t say where. It was typical for her to stay out late and it wasn’t until he checked her room Sunday morning and saw that she hadn’t returned home that he began to worry. When the police called on Sunday and told him they may have found his daughter in West Seattle, he suspected she had gone over to see Keith.”

Reed remembered what Keith had told Kim about not having talked to Marissa in days. Terry had mentioned the same thing from the original police report.

Reed interrupted, “Didn’t you tell me that Keith told the police he hadn’t talked with Marissa that weekend. Maybe she didn’t go to Seattle to see Keith. She could have been seeing someone else.”

“Except he was lying about talking with her. His cell phone records show that he called Marissa’s cell Saturday around 8:30 am. The investigators are going to have another talk with him tomorrow.”

Now Reed’s belief in Keith’s innocence was beginning to erode. Keith had lied to both the police and Kim about talking with Marissa on Saturday. Why would he lie if he was innocent? Maybe he had lied to Kim about the cutting tools too.

Terry finished up, “Other than that, they really don’t have anything. There are no leads anywhere other than Keith and there is no hard evidence to connect him to Marissa’s death. His talking with her Saturday morning is certainly no crime.”

Reed felt sick to his stomach.

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