Deadly Secrets by Richard Hammer

Author:Richard Hammer
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504052283
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2017-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

PART FOUR

WHAT THE DEED COST

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All the conspiring, all the planning, all the scheming had come to nothing. Early the morning of August 5 Joyce Aparo’s Volkswagen Jetta was found, not in the Bronx but down a hill beside the home of the police chief in Bernardston, Massachusetts. By afternoon her body had been discovered a little distance away. Karin never got home that morning to clean the condo. That night Glastonbury police stenographer Beverly Warga overheard the incriminating telephone conversation between Karin Aparo and Dennis Coleman and overheard another as they sat talking in the police station near her desk a few hours later. Within a few days Karin had turned over to the state police the “I will ‘do the deed,’” note, and on August 12, the day of her mother’s funeral, she had gone to them with what she said was Dennis’s confession to her, down to the smallest detail, given only an hour before in the bathroom at the home of her closest friend Shannon Dubois, that he had murdered Joyce Aparo. Dennis never got to start classes at Central Connecticut State University. The day he was to begin, Friday, August 7, he drove instead to the Glastonbury incinerator and dumped the clothes he had worn two days before and everything else he took from Joyce Aparo’s car. Less than a week later he was arrested and charged with her murder.

He was in jail over the weekend, until his $150,000 bond could be posted. On Monday, August 17, he was released and sent home, to wait for what would come. As soon as he was back home, he went to the phone and called the Duboises’ number and asked to speak to Karin. “I was very upset, and I wanted to talk to her. I asked if I could see her that night.”

During that call she told him everybody was putting pressure on her not to see or talk to him again. Still, she wanted to see him and talk with him, and they arranged to meet at the Gallery restaurant. Karin arrived first, with Shannon and a few others. Dennis drove up a little later. She saw him as he entered, got up and went to meet him. They walked out together to his car, got in and drove away.

They drove into South Glastonbury, by his house. He was sure they were being followed. They kept driving around until they lost whoever was behind them, then turned onto a field near the Connecticut River and parked out in a deserted area behind a barn in the woods. They stayed there for about two hours.

She asked him what jail was like. It wasn’t good, it wasn’t bad, he said. They talked about what lay in store for him. “If I went to jail,” he says, “would she be around when I got out. Writing and things like that. She told me that she had found out from one of the police officers that the victim’s next of

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