Children of the Carnival by Alan Brown

Author:Alan Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: World Castle Publishing, LLC
Published: 2023-02-27T14:53:20+00:00

CHAPTER 9 - THE SUSPECTS

November 1993

Abbey Wilkinson had been gone less than twelve hours. The State police had gathered box loads of material from the carnival premises. Detective McClain had ordered his officers to arrest two suspects, Charlie Baker and Kerry Johnson.

Booger was certain that Charlie Baker and Kerry Johnson were not directly involved in the Wilkinson girl’s disappearance. But they were hiding something. They knew more than they were telling. A day or two behind bars might help their memory, Booger thought. Besides, it gave him time to run their fingerprints into the criminal database. There had to be a reason they refused to be fingerprinted the night before, Booger reasoned. “The likelihood is that they have something in their past that they want to hide,” Booger had told Judge Barnie Taylor earlier that day.

After his officers had driven the two suspects away, Booger met with Captain Johnston Phillips with the State police. The captain was just wrapping up the evidence search at the carnival.

“Captain,” Booger said. “I think I know how they got the Wilkinson girl out of the haunted house.”

“OK, I’m listening,” he replied.

“There is a trap door in the floor of the haunted house. It is hidden beneath a casket. I found it last night. I went inside to a small room. There was a cage in the room. But no one was in it. On the other side of the room was a tunnel, barely big enough for me to crawl through. It came out at a sewer drain. I followed the sewer drain to an opening that came out near the trailer that caught on fire last night. Someone must have seen me. They hit me on the back of my head, and I passed out for a while. I’m convinced that that tunnel is how they moved the girl.”

“Makes sense. Why didn’t you tell me this earlier?”

“I thought it was more important to get a search warrant and check the trailers and the offices. I figured whoever took the girl had already gotten out of the tunnel and was holding her somewhere on the grounds. But you didn’t see any signs that she was here, did you?”

“No, we didn’t.”

“Well, then, I think we need to search that room underneath the floor and the tunnel that leads out of it.”

Captain Phillips agreed. He assigned several of his officers to go with Detective McClain and search the area below the floor.

Booger took five officers with him. He located the trap door in the haunted house. It was unlocked. He opened it and shined a flashlight down into the room. There was nothing there. The cage was gone. He lowered himself down into the room. It was a crude, dirt room, small, maybe six feet deep and six feet wide, dug into the ground about four feet below the wooden floorboards of the haunted house.

Inside the room, he shined the flashlight around to all four walls. The walls were solid. There were no openings from that room.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.