Interview with a Dead Editor by Shanna Swendson

Author:Shanna Swendson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shanna Swendson

Chapter Thirteen

Surely I wasn’t the only one who’d made this connection. Wes knew who Ruthie had seen near the office, and he’d said that he read the newspaper, so had to know about the scandals. He might even have investigated those cases. He’d been in school with these people. I’d clued him in about Ogden having the article. He probably knew even more than I did, since he had the full context. I could probably leave it all in his hands.

Besides, I couldn’t interview my suspects. I didn’t work for any newspaper right now, so it wasn’t as though I could go up to a complete stranger and ask him questions about his high school years out of personal curiosity. I didn’t know where to find these people. Danny Jefferson was on administrative leave from the school, so he wouldn’t be there even if school was in session on a day when the roads were impassible. The reverend had been kicked out of his church, so he wouldn’t be there. I might be able to track down their home addresses, but that wasn’t likely to get me anything more than a door slammed in my face.

But still, I thought it was worth pursuing, and I wasn’t sure Wes was doing so. Maybe what he needed was a fresh perspective. If he’d known these people his whole life, he might not be able to imagine them as killers, so he might overlook something.

What I usually did in a situation like this when I was reporting was find people who knew the suspects and casually chat with those people. It was amazing what friends and colleagues would say to anyone who showed the slightest interest, especially if there was juicy gossip to be shared. People wanted to show off their inside knowledge. I needed to know who’d been friends with Andy and Danny in school. That might give me some insight into whether they were involved with Carolyn’s death, and since this was their hometown, those same people might still be friends now and able to tell me what they thought about Ogden.

“We have a complete archive of the local newspaper,” someone near me whispered. I looked up to see a librarian straight out of an old movie, complete with bun, cat-eye glasses, and buttoned-up cardigan. “They’re bound on those shelves over there.”

“Thanks,” I said.

She raised a finger to her lips to shush me and went on her way. I hadn’t been looking for the newspaper, since I’d already searched the archives. Now that I thought about it, though, doing keyword searches meant I was missing context. I got up to head where she’d pointed, but I didn’t see her anymore. “Okay, stealth librarian,” I muttered.

The paper was only published once a week, so it shouldn’t take me much time to get through a whole year. The newspapers were bound in six-month volumes. I found the volume that should contain the story about Carolyn Stevens’s death and pulled it off the shelf to take back to my table.

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