Bark M For Murder by J. A. Jance & Virginia Lanier & Chassie West & Lee Charles Kelley

Author:J. A. Jance & Virginia Lanier & Chassie West & Lee Charles Kelley [Jance, J. A.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-03-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

Give My Umbrella to the Rain Dogs

Earl was rushed to Rockland Memorial and put on life support. He was in a coma, though he still had some good brain function. The doctors gave him a fifty-fifty chance.

“If he makes it,” Sinclair said after we got the report, “maybe we can get him to finger Cady Clark for the killing.”

“Earl?” I scoffed. “I wouldn’t count on it.”

Ballistics proved that the two men were, indeed, shot from different distances, so there was no way they could have shot each other. As for how Cady tied herself up with duct tape, that was still a mystery.

Since the shootings were connected to a bank robbery, we had the FBI’s manpower available to track down every possible lead. They interviewed anyone who knew either the victims or the suspects: friends, family, business associates, but after two days of intensive investigation, Cady Clark got away clean, probably thanks to help from Mike Delgado.

The evidence suggested he’d been waiting in his State Police cruiser on a dirt road behind the motel. We knew this from the footprints Cady had left between the bathroom window and a set of tire tracks on the dirt road, where the prints disappeared. The tire tracks matched Delgado’s radials. His cruiser was found in the Portland Airport parking lot.

Delgado had once been a good police officer while he was on the Bangor force, but left due to a conflict with his partner, Robert Parrish, who’d been sleeping with Delgado’s wife. Delgado found out about it, fists were thrown, both were written up, Parrish took medical retirement (due to a heart condition), and Delgado quit the force.

Delgado was an ex-marine trained to work with explosives, and had raced stock cars and done stunt driving. He lived in a cabin in the woods and considered himself a modern-day mountain-man with a badge who believed “God and Family First, Law and Order Second,” and reportedly had twin tattoos—one on either bicep—to prove it.

The FBI did a dump on Cady’s home phone, which showed an interesting (to me) cluster of calls to a Dr. Robert Atkinson, OB-Gyn, of Belfast. She’d called his office dozens of times and had even called him at home several others. I had to wonder if something personal, not medical, had been going on. Meanwhile, Cady had made no calls to any ophthalmologists, internists, or cancer specialists.

She’d also taken out a life insurance policy on Earl a few days before the bank robbery. The beneficiary was someone named Amanda Hitchcock (Cady’s sister Amanda?) and the policy was good for half a million dollars. The FBI immediately began trying to track down this Amanda Hitchcock.

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