Losing Patients (Animal Instincts Book 4) by Chloe Kendrick

Author:Chloe Kendrick
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-10-21T23:00:00+00:00

To keep my mind off of my family and these new developments, I went home and began to look up news articles about Harriett Marksberry. I noticed that two women had been murdered and only one man. I wasn’t sure if that was important, but in any case, two of the three were likely to be in one gender category. In all three cases, the victims were married. Givens had been happily married or so she said, except for the stash of money she’d found. That spoke of him hiding something from her and at the moment, I found that to be a source of mistrust. Adamson had been separated and out of town at the time of the suicide, and Marksberry was seemingly happily married as well.

The crime had occurred only a few days before, and the papers were still full of speculation about the crime and the reasons for it. Harriett had been coming home from work on Tuesday. She’d never arrived home. At 10pm her husband had called the police. They had asked questions, but not wanted to commit their resources.

At 3am, an anonymous caller had reported seeing a brown sedan off the side of I-75, not far from downtown. The police had gone to investigate just before sunrise and found the body of Harriett Marksberry, dead from a gunshot wound. The car was not bloodied, which told them she had been moved to the car after death. The ballistics report had put the gun as a Beretta 9mm, but other than that they had no information on the gun. It had never been stolen or used in the commission of another crime.

The police had checked into the husband’s alibi, which seemed to be solid. He’d been home, but several neighbors had been at the house taking care of the children while he made calls to friends and family to see if they had seen Harriett that evening. He’d stopped calling people after his call to the police at 10pm, but two friends had stayed over as a precaution in case the husband was summoned out during the night.

While the police had an alibi for the husband, they also had a slew of motives. There was a $150,000 life insurance policy out on Harriett with all proceeds going to the husband. Neighbors had also told the police that Harriett had been having an affair with a co-worker, but the police and the newspapers were not naming the other person.

I had a million questions for Green, but of course, she’d warned me off of this case. The most fruitful line of questioning, as I saw it, was breaking the alibis. In all of the three cases that Dr. Wilson had identified, the most likely suspect had a clear alibi. Mrs. Givens had been on the beach, while her husband was boating. Mr. Adamson had been out of town. Now Mr. Marksberry was surrounded by friends while his wife was being murdered. By far that was the most unusual aspect of each of the cases – and the most suspicious.

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