Evidence of Love by John Bloom

Author:John Bloom
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

15 Interrogation

“I did have an affair,” Allan Gore told Royce Abbott.

“Oh?”

“With Candy Montgomery.”

Chief Abbott was startled, especially since he was hearing such news at 6 A.M., but he kept his voice calm and even.

“Well, I’m glad you told us that, Allan, but to set your mind at ease, Candy’s already told us.”

Candy had done no such thing, but the last thing Abbott wanted was for Allan to alert her. So Abbott pretended that the affair was of no particular importance to the investigation, but suggested that Allan come down to the station anyway and set the record straight. As soon as he got off the phone, Abbott contacted Joe Murphy, the burly DPS intelligence agent who lived in Wylie. Murphy’s specialty was interrogation, and suddenly Abbott felt he was going to need him.

As soon as Abbott called, something had clicked in Murphy’s mind. This was the right track. This was a motive, the first one they’d come up with. Love, lust, secret admiration—whatever it was, it was an excellent reason for murder. Husband out of town. His secret lover visiting the wife’s house just before she’s killed. Small bloody footprints at the scene. Most important of all: they had both concealed the affair from the police. That didn’t mean he considered them the actual murderers, but perhaps they had made it possible. Perhaps it was a hired killing. But why an ax? Why the overkill? Why do it in the middle of the day? There was a lot Joe Murphy wanted to know.

“I couldn’t sleep last night,” said Allan Gore when he got to the Wylie police station just after seven that morning. “I got to thinking about some of the questions you asked me last night, and I felt I had to tell you the whole story.”

“Start with the first time you met Mrs. Montgomery,” said Murphy.

For the next half hour Murphy and Abbott sat listening to Allan’s version of the affair. Allan was remarkably composed and unemotional, considering what he was saying.

“Did Candy ever mention getting a divorce?” asked Murphy. “Either you or she.”

“She mentioned that she had not been in love with Pat, her husband, for some time. She said she was just staying with him until the kids were grown, then she intended to get a divorce. She said she still had her life to live and was looking forward to what life would be like when the kids were grown.”

“What about your wife? Did she ever find out that you were having an affair?”

“As far as Betty ever indicating that she suspected Candy and I having an affair, she never let on. I’m not sure if she would have mentioned it even if she had. The past wasn’t her concern. Only the present and future was what mattered to her.”

“Why are you telling us this now when you failed to tell us last night?”

“Because after I got home last night, I thought about the questions you asked me about my having an affair. And after

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