Death Angel by Martha Powers

Author:Martha Powers [Powers, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
Published: 2006-10-02T04:00:00+00:00

“I asked her that once,” Carl said. “She never gave me an answer. Kate Warner is the kind of woman you would describe with terms like: good, normal, responsible, moral. Until Jenny’s death, I suspect she had no experience with evil. It would never occur to her that Richard might be guilty. When he became a suspect, she was forced to consider it. She obviously decided he was innocent. I know this is a long answer to your question, but if she thought he was guilty I don’t think she would help him.”

Bea pressed. “Assuming she thinks he’s innocent, if he was going to be arrested, would she help him disappear?”

“Maybe,” Carl shrugged. “If I’m reading their relationship right, Richard has controlled her throughout their marriage. I don’t think she’d act on her own. I don’t think she’s a good enough liar to pull off this kind of a deception. In my opinion, she doesn’t know any more about what happened to him than we do. His disappearance was a stunning blow. First her daughter is killed, then her husband is suspected of the crime, and now it looks like he’s committed suicide. When I saw her yesterday, she was sedated and almost catatonic.”

“I tend to agree with your assessment of Mrs. Warner,” Bob said. “She believes in Warner, and the last thing she wants is his death. Dead, he would never be cleared of suspicion. Besides, she’s too honest to continue to mourn for someone she knows is alive. It would be a betrayal of her own daughter’s death.”

“Agreed,” Carl said. “So if he decided to fake his death, could he have done it on his own?”

Tony stabbed his finger on the top of his file folders. “No. He left behind his credit cards and his wallet with a hundred twenty-seven bucks. I checked his bank records and he hasn’t taken out any chunks of dough. My read is that guys like Warner get used to the creature comforts. He isn’t the kind of guy who’d walk away empty.”

“Are we all agreed that if he disappeared he’d need help?” Carl asked.

Four heads nodded in unison.

“And a place to stay,” Bob added.

“Okay,” Diego said. “The way I see it, the two most likely candidates for Good Samaritan of the Month are Mike Kennedy and Christian Mayerling.”

“Before you get into a discussion of opportunity,” Bea said, “let me give you a sidebar. Warner is not staying in Mayerling’s condo. We did a batch of interviews, and unless he’s disguised as a fifty-year-old Hungarian maid, he’s not there. I sent Jamison over to Kennedy’s place. The complex has both townhouses and apartments. The manager is on the premises. According to him, nobody’s been at the townhouse for at least a week, including Kennedy. He’s been staying in Chicago at his girlfriend’s along with Mrs. Warner.”

“I can’t believe Warner’d stay with either of those two guys,” Tony said. “He’d have to know we’d check them out.”

Bea shrugged. “We’re not dealing with a streetwise criminal.

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