Cold Case at Carlton's Canyon by Rita Herron

Author:Rita Herron
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, ROMANCE - - SUSPENSE, Suspense, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373697359
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-31T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Amanda hurried back to the security station to talk to Justin. He waved her in, his brows furrowed. “I’ve narrowed the window of time when the body was dumped,” Justin said. “Sometime after two a.m.” He pointed to one of the cameras near the left entryway to the field. “One of the cameras had been out, but that one was working. Someone shot it out around two-fifteen.”

“That could be helpful,” Amanda said. “The crime scene team should search for the bullet casing.”

“I’ll let them know. There’s something else I want you to look at.”

Amanda eased up beside him. “Okay, but we’ve got another problem. Mrs. Turner is worried, Justin. She thinks her daughter, Suzy, has disappeared.”

Justin cursed. “All right, look at this, then we’ll talk about the Turner case.” He rewound the camera and zeroed in on the young man with the hat. “Do you recognize him?”

Amanda narrowed her eyes. “Yes, that’s Carlton Butts’s brother, Ted.”

“Did they have a younger sibling at Canyon High?”

She shook her head no.

“Then what’s he doing here?”

“I don’t know,” Amanda admitted. “Maybe he heard about the body and was just curious like half the town.”

“Could be. But he looks awfully nervous.”

“He does, doesn’t he?” Amanda tried to recall the last time she’d seen Ted, but couldn’t.

“You said he and his brother weren’t close?”

“No, they were too different,” Amanda said. “At Carlton’s funeral, he told me that he didn’t understand Carlton. Ted knew his brother was depressed and had been picked on by the other kids, but he said Carlton brought some of the antagonism on himself.”

“So he wouldn’t want revenge against the girls who refused to date his brother?”

“I don’t think so,” Amanda said “But we can talk to him if you want.”

Justin said, “We need to look at Suzy’s life, her schedule, figure out her movements the day she went missing. Maybe we’ll find something to link her disappearance to Kelly’s.”

She hoped so. The bodies were piling up way too quickly.

Together they walked outside, then drove back to the police station, the gray clouds adding to the gloom mounting inside her.

Terry Sumter sat by the front desk, looking belligerent as they entered the station.

In another chair Mr. Reisling sat beside another man she assumed was his attorney. Reisling looked confident, almost smug.

“Deputy, please escort Mr. Reisling and his lawyer to my office,” Justin said. “I’ll interview them while the sheriff talks to Mr. Sumter.”

Amanda nodded, knowing the interrogations would go quicker if they split up. They’d spent most of the day at the school. Afternoon was fading into early evening and they needed answers.

Needed to find Suzy before it was too late.

Terry glared at her with hate-filled eyes. “You aren’t really going to arrest me, are you?”

“Where were you two nights ago?” Amanda asked.

He crossed his feet at the ankles. “You mean the night Kelly disappeared?”

“Yes.”

“On a work detail,” Sumter said.

Amanda raised a brow. “I thought you lost your job.”

“My company fell apart when the building business hit bottom,” he said. “But I do some renovations with Harvey Mabry.

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