JG02 - Borderlines by Archer Mayor

Author:Archer Mayor [Mayor, Archer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery
Published: 2011-04-14T23:00:00+00:00

Here, everyone just watched him.

Hamilton cleared his throat. “Thank you, Major. You probably all now by now that Rennie Wilson was found dead this afternoon. rofter Smith will give you what we have so far.” Smith rose from the crowd and opened a file before him. When e’d appeared at the Lemon Road scene at the head of the troops, he’d oked a little piqued, half visible in the gloom. Now, under the fluoescent tubes, I doubted I’d ever seen a man look so exhausted. He had ags under his eyes I could see from across the room. As case officer %194 on the Wingate murder, his compulsively rigid personality probably hadn’t allowed him to catch more than two hours sleep at a time, and then only when he was sure no one was around to catch him napping.

“This is going to be a little unusual. Because of the time factor, I haven’t been able to condense all our findings into a single report.

So, I’ve asked several of the people directly involved in the investigation of Rennie Wilson’s death to give verbal reports tonight, with the understanding that tomorrow, you will all be issued written versions after some of us have had some sleep. I’d like to start with Fish and Game Lieutenant John Bishop.” Bishop stood up slowly and began to speak in a gentle, measured tone, as if he were addressing a group of keenly attentive children. He described the process he’d used to discover Rennie’s body, and what the tracks had told him. He had indeed traced the killer’s footprints back to the road. Apparently, the vehicle had arrived after Rennie, but before the other two, and had been parked farther down the road, out of sight, disguised with leaves and branches, just as Rennie’s had been.

Bishop stuck to a recitation of the facts, but I was struck by a pattern-as if the killer, having followed Rennie to Lemon Road, had followed his every move thereafter, from hiding the car to creeping through the woods to awaiting the arrival of Rennie’s mysterious guests at the rock outcropping. It struck me that the killer had bided his time, waiting not just for the proper moment, which must have presented itself again and again in the isolated woods, but more out of curiosity.

One by one, Smith called on his witnesses, including the local M.E. Dr.

Hoard-who confirmed what Bishop had told me, adding that the weapon had probably been a large hunting knife, and who reported that an autopsy was being performed as we spoke. Various members of the Crime Lab, here on their way back to Waterbury, gave preliminary reports on their findings and on the samples they had collected for analysis. Of immediate interest was the fact that while the killer’s footprints did not match any of those found at Bruce Wingate’s murder scene, the smaller of the visiting twosome did conform to the small ones found at the ravine-the ones that had been colored yellow on the sketch of that scene.

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