Levon's Run by Chuck Dixon & Jaye Manus

Author:Chuck Dixon & Jaye Manus [Dixon, Chuck & Manus, Jaye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Urban Life, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Crime, Heist, Kidnapping, Vigilante Justice, Urban, Crime Fiction
Amazon: B01AWXK6H6
Publisher: Bruno Books
Published: 2016-02-21T16:00:00+00:00

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The girl wasn’t on the train when it reached New Orleans.

The train was delayed for four hours in Yazoo City when an attendant found her cabin empty an hour out of Memphis. Every car was searched and the girl was not found. The disappearance of a minor child traveling alone on one of their trains sent a shiver of terror up the corporate spine of Amtrak. Local and state police were called in both in Mississippi and Tennessee. The area around Memphis station was searched for evidence as was the station in Greenwood, the only stop before Yazoo. An Amber Alert was sent out over four states.

The only agency not called in was the FBI who had agents waiting throughout the day at Union Passenger Terminal in New Orleans to question Megan Elizabeth Bruckman when she detrained.

State CID reviewed the video footage in Memphis based on the account of an eyewitness who told them about a strange man she saw pestering the child just before the stop there. The highly stressed train attendant told them that a coach passenger had entered the sleeping cars to talk to the girl. This was corroborated by a waiter in the dining car who gave the same description of a tall man in his thirties. Dark hair. Glasses. Creepy. Both the attendant and waiter used that last word.

The video footage from the platform clearly showed the man identified by the train crew detraining in Memphis. Shortly after, the Bruckman girl exited the train carrying a backpack. Two different angles showed the “creepy guy” watching the girl from concealment and following her into the station.

The “creepy” passenger was quickly identified from the train’s manifest as Axel Louis Colfax.

It was eight in the evening when a tactical team of combined Memphis PD and staties hammered down the front and rear doors of the Colfax home, startling his elderly parents. Axel was found playing Super Mario in a room the cops at first assumed belonged to much younger sibling until they learned that Axel was an only child. The suspect appeared to be either ill or high on some controlled substance. A further search of the home failed to uncover evidence of a missing child.

The search did uncover a locked room in the basement. Their warrant gave them all latitude in their search and so the lock was snipped with bolt cutters and the room was entered by a half dozen cops calling Megan’s name. Instead of the allegedly abducted girl, either dead or alive, the cops found a treasure trove of child pornography lovingly boxed and filed by subject matter. A computer and CPU towers promised even more.

It was swiftly determined that all of this was evidence relating to a suspected abduction. Axel Colfax was a registered sex offender and therefore, by his past actions, stripped of many of his constitutional rights. The presumption of innocence was strained to the point where they could haul him in. The boxes and hard drives were carted off along with Axel.

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