Echoes of Guilt by L.L. Abbott

Author:L.L. Abbott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hemlock & Ash

Kerry sat at a table in the back of the café staring at the stack of pages she brought with her from the lab. She chose a seat away from the prying stares of the three women who were sitting near the window, basking in the sun's rays that flooded the front of the café. The warmth from the sun combined with a strong coffee would have given Kerry the fortitude to proceed with reading the over fifty sheets of paper that glared ominously back at her. Instead, she remained distanced from other customers as she shifted her seat at the back of the café and continued to read.

Damage to the remains made examination difficult and direct exposure to the elements for several decades meant that decomposition left little to be tested.

The approximate age of each individual buried in the ground along with the reports that showed signs of tuberculosis and lead poisoning drew a grim picture. Upon the initial discovery in Belvedere Field, everyone believed that the grave was the result of a mass killing, a crime that Kerry would have categorized as deplorable, but one that would have been the result of a single incident.

However, tests that dove deeper into the life of the bones revealed that each person died at a different point in time. Every death was within close proximity to each other but it was not a mass murder but a more systematic death drawn out over several years. Cruel and painful were two words that came to Kerry’s mind.

Before a final conclusion could be made, she wanted to give complete attention to the reports, reading each one with precise attention. Knowing that whatever information she found would become the crux of an investigation.

If her assumption was right, the remains were moved from another location and reburied in Belvedere Field.

Kerry reached into her pocket and pulled out her phone. She dialed Simon’s number and waited through four rings until he answered the call.

“What’s up, Kerry?” Simon hurriedly answered his phone.

“Is everything alright? Did I catch you at a bad time?”

“Sorry,” Simon apologized. “Peter just arrived the moment I got off the phone with the person who owns Belvedere Field.”

She sat forward and pressed the phone to her ear, “Who owns it?”

Ownership of the property had remained a mystery since Paul Morrow’s body had been discovered.

Everyone was under the impression that the field that bordered the popular forest was owned by the town. However, buried under several numbered companies Simon discovered who owned the property. And with Kerry’s recent assumption that the bodies were transferred there from another location, she thought it would finally point to the person responsible for the thirty-one deaths.

“Have you ever heard of York Enterprises?” Simon asked.

“I think I remember a business in Montreal with the name York. But that was a long time ago,” Kerry said.

“That’s the one.”

“From Montreal?” Kerry asked. “Are you certain?”

“Their family and their business go back to the building of the railway. The York family initially

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