Below the Fold by R. G. Belsky

Author:R. G. Belsky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
Published: 2019-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

PART II

FEEDING THE BEAST

CHAPTER 33

THE CASE AGAINST Bill Atwood began falling apart within hours of his death.

The first sign that something was wrong came when Sandy Underhill, the Benson College coed who slept with him and told the story on TV about him calling Grace Mancuso a “little bitch who deserved to die,” popped up again in an interview in the National Enquirer. In this one, she gave a completely different account of things Atwood supposedly said about Mancuso in the hotel room that day. Under questioning by police, Underhill admitted he’d never mentioned Grace Mancuso. In fact, their hotel room encounter had taken place before Mancuso was even murdered. She said she’d made up the rest of it to make her story seem more sensational. She wanted to be a celebrity.

Then came even more disturbing news. Grace Mancuso was not Bill Atwood’s secret daughter. Dora Gayle never had a baby. She was pregnant—apparently with Atwood’s child—but she suffered a miscarriage. That, along with being dumped by Atwood—who was partying up a storm with girls in London back then—was apparently too much for her. She dropped out of school and began the long downward spiral that eventually turned her into an alcoholic and a homeless person living on the street. One doctor who’d treated her said she sometimes talked when she was drinking about being married to a husband named Billy and how they had this beautiful daughter together and lived in this pretty little house—but it was all a delusion. A sad dream that came out of the bottle.

As for Dora’s murder, cops picked up a derelict near the park who confessed to the slaying. It turned out she had been talking during one of her delusions about the bank account she still thought she had. This time the delusion cost Dora her life. The guy forced her to the bank ATM that night and then stabbed her to death in a rage when she couldn’t produce any money. He said he was sorry he killed her, because she was a nice lady. He also said that he was a secret agent for the CIA, and he asked the arresting officers to notify the President and Joint Chiefs of Staff of his situation.

It got worse after that.

The DNA samples of the blood found on Atwood’s clothes matched Grace Mancuso’s blood. But that didn’t really mean anything anymore. Before he died, Atwood admitted he was in the apartment and gotten her blood on him the night she was murdered. That negated the importance of that evidence, which seemed so crucial just a short time earlier when they found it at the bottom of the Hudson River.

The real jolt though came from the final Medical Examiner’s report. It found that the time of death for Grace Mancuso was even earlier than they had first thought, some eighteen hours before police discovered her body—definitely no later than five or six p.m. Atwood had been in meetings at Benson College all that day until six, then attended a fund-raising dinner until after nine.

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