Father of the Year by Glenn Puit

Author:Glenn Puit
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2010-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

The detectives discussed the contents of the note found in the garage. It seemed very curious to the detectives. If the Rundles were going to take an emergency trip to the Philippines, it seemed highly doubtful they would have let their family know via a note left on a garage door. It was much more likely that they would have called the Belens, perhaps from their cell phone on their way to the airport if they were in a hurry.

“I thought the note was bullshit,” Alby said. “Nobody writes a note saying they are going to the Philippines. I don’t leave town without telling my mom I’m leaving. It seemed totally out of character for them.”

Detectives Huggins and Tremel thought the note was bogus, too.

“I knew whoever left that note was trying to buy time,” Huggins said.

The detectives and crime scene analysts completed their processing of the home, and they gathered on Poppywood Drive to contemplate what scenarios could explain the evidence. They knew very, very little about the Rundles at this point. They had two missing people on their hands—the couple had now been missing for a little more than three weeks—and they appeared to be very normal individuals. The Rundles were certainly not dope dealers, or prostitutes, or involved in risky behavior, yet there was blood on Shirley’s chair, and it appeared someone had tried to conceal the chair by moving it upstairs, covering it with a bedsheet and then replacing it with another chair in the living room. The circumstances seemed highly suspicious.

“We had two missing people, and in our mind, one of them is dead and the other one’s gone, or it could easily have been that both of them were dead,” Huggins said.

“We discussed it at length,” Alby said. “We questioned whether an unknown third party could be responsible for the Rundles being missing, and there was no evidence of it. We didn’t think a third party would go to the trouble of moving the chair and covering it. The weapon, whatever it was, had been taken or moved.

“The vehicle was missing, which was not unusual, but it is kind of rare that the suspects take a vehicle,” Alby said. “At the time, there was some home invasion robberies going on in Las Vegas, but what we had in front of us really didn’t fit a home invasion robbery. There were no signs of forced entry. There was no ransacking to the extent that it looked like someone was looking for valuables.”

The detectives were leaning toward the possibility that Bill Rundle had killed his wife and fled.

“I thought it was very suspicious,” Tremel said.

“When we left there we thought she was probably dead, he probably did it, and he is now on the run,” Alby said.

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