Deadly Seduction by Wensley Clarkson

Author:Wensley Clarkson [Clarkson, Wensley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466873445
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Ten

Among the platoon of investigators that swarmed to Jim and Susan Grund’s house as soon as it was discovered that a murder had taken place were three men who would play prominent roles in events that followed: county prosecutor Wil Siders, Jim’s best friend and Peru Police Department Sgt. Gary Nichols, and Robert Brinson, a tough Vietnam vet who would direct the investigation on the part of the Indiana State Police.

With their greater resources, it was decided that the ISP should run the investigation into the murder of Jimmy Grund. The inquiry was coordinated through Det. Sgt. Bob Land with Indiana State Police Investigator Brinson as the lead detective. He was to be assisted throughout by Trooper Investigator Gary Boyles and technician Dean Marks.

Bob Brinson, forty-six, tended to wear his state trooper’s badge with real pride. As a master trooper investigator, he had worked on numerous homicides throughout Miami County. His stern, straight-faced appearance disguised a dry wit and humor that come with fifteen years of police experience, not to mention two terms in Vietnam as a naval CB, building everything from roads to hangars to huts, often as enemy gunfire rained down on him.

Brinson immediately jumped into the nitty-gritty that accompanies any homicide investigation, chronicling details of the scene and trying to keep out of the way of the team of crime scene specialists who were turned loose after Jimmy Grund was officially declared dead. While Brinson moved methodically through the house, sketching the layout of the rooms and noting anything that seemed out of place, technicians took pictures, dusted for prints, and catalogued samples of material that might prove valuable later, both in narrowing down the list of suspects and helping to convict the killer or killers.

Back at Summit Drive, at around 3:00 A.M., Susan Grund tried for the second time to phone attorney and family friend Jim Boyles. This time he was in and told Susan to inform her sister that neither of them should give any more help to the investigators.

In the living room area, Brinson was appalled to overhear two officers discussing their theories as to who had committed the killing. When county prosecutor Wil Siders—waiting outside the house—suggested interviewing certain people there on the spot, Brinson intervened. This was his investigation and no one—however rich and powerful—was going to prevent him from doing his job in a fair-minded manner. That was the final straw; Brinson herded everyone out of the house and off the property. Some were none too happy about it, but, Brinson explained, he had a job to do. Brinson had the unenviable task of actually proving that someone had murdered Jimmy Grund. He wanted to stay unbiased, but it was difficult in this hostile atmosphere. Certain people already had made up their own minds who the killer was.

Brinson himself already suspected that the bullet which killed Jimmy Grund came from his own son’s gun. Rumors about Susan and David had been around Peru for quite some time. All sorts of possible scenarios were going through Bob Brinson’s mind.

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