EYEWITNESS by Marc Timms

Author:Marc Timms [Timms, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Johanna looked up at the house. She’d had no trouble finding it again. After all, she’d been there to see the corpse being removed from the scene. She’d been asked to identify the woman, which she could not.

Detective Dempsey was correct about one thing. The scene of that murder had been closed. The tape was gone. No policemen were guarding it. In fact, she could see no signs of security at all.

Yet, she knew that the house would be locked up. Wasn’t that the whole reason that the case was so confusing? No one could lock the home tight unless they had keys to do so—and also stayed inside the house. She sighed, knowing that the answer would not come quickly or easily, and it might put her in danger. If someone had worked that hard to make the old woman’s death an unsolvable murder, he—or she—would probably work just as hard to keep it a secret.

Marnie had been assigned the role of photographer, and she was walking around the house, taking pictures on her phone of all the doors and windows. She seemed content with that job, and it allowed Johanna time to think, something she hadn’t been able to do in the last few days. She’d been chased, spent the night in the forest, and then learned that the police had arrested someone who didn’t match her description at all. Then, before she could reveal those discrepancies, he was dead, and the police had closed the case. Phew. No wonder she was tired.

Johanna had no idea where to start with a home like this. The locked house issue had to be a ruse, a misdirection: something to take the police’s minds off the fact that a murder had been committed here. The problem would be just that, like a magician, the person behind this did not want their tricks uncovered. So perhaps, the smokescreen of the locks confused what might otherwise be an otherwise simple murder to solve.

Marnie came around from the far side of the house. “I’ve taken photos from each side of the house. Every window and every door has been recorded. I don’t know what you saw, but there’s a second-story window that has a pane broke out. It could have been a tree—or it could be related to the murder in some way. I took several photos of that one.”

Johanna allowed herself to be taken to the window in the back of the house. Marnie had been right. A lower right pane of the window had been shattered from the outside. That wouldn’t help much if someone was trying to sneak out of the house, as they’d be on the wrong side of the window. She looked around, but there were no ladders or methods of getting down from the window to the ground. An older maple tree stood about ten feet away from the house, but she doubted that someone could jump from the window to the tree—and it still wouldn’t explain how the window was later closed.

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