Marked for Death by Brian J. Karem

Author:Brian J. Karem [Karem, Brian J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Nonfiction, Retail, True Crime
ISBN: 9780061747311
Google: 54Y4yq2kPV0C
Amazon: B00128Z20C
Barnesnoble: B00128Z20C
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

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Hungry Mouths Talk

It’s almost impossible to figure out many of the details of Larry’s death, not only because he and his wife are dead, but because when Elisa was alive and hanging out with Sarah, the two of them lied about so many things and so often that even the most mundane facts are questionable.

Take, for example, Cheryl Jensen, the landlord of the home in Woodbridge. It was a nice neighborhood, exclusive, just off of a golf course where Larry liked to play. By mid-September Elisa had bounced two checks to the woman, but Elisa kept playing with her.

At first Elisa told Cheryl the reason why her check bounced was that an employee from the law firm had stolen a stack of checks. When the second check bounced, Cheryl got Elisa on the telephone, and Elisa told her that the checks kept bouncing because Larry had a neurological incident like a stroke and he couldn’t be moved for a few weeks. There was a great doctor in St. Louis, according to Elisa, and by golly she was going to get her husband there to save him.

What Larry’s neurological event had to do with Elisa bouncing checks, Elisa didn’t say. What happened to the employee who stole a stack of checks? Elisa didn’t say.

The story doesn’t end there. Elisa told Cheryl that Larry was so bad off he couldn’t even speak, which actually was the truth, but according to Elisa it wasn’t because he was dead. He’d just had a horrible stroke and he was using a computer to communicate. This placated Cheryl for a few more days, but it didn’t make her forget that the McNabneys owed her money. On September 22, 2001, she posted a pay or leave notice at the house. When she got home, there was a phone message from Elisa. There were more excuses. The reason she hadn’t been in contact, Elisa said, was because she was in a car accident and lost her cell phone.

The lies cascaded out of Elisa’s mouth like sewer water out of a punctured septic tank. The worst of it started the day she and Sarah killed Larry. As police began to unravel the mystery, they soon found themselves happy they didn’t have to rely on the words of either Sarah or Elisa in deciphering what had happened. They had Ginger, the newest secretary in the McNabney law firm, to help them figure it out.

Ginger Miller, a pretty blonde who wanted to do charity work, unknowingly got a ringside seat to the Theatre of the Absurd production in the McNabney law office following Larry’s murder. When she returned to work two days after her aborted first day on the job, Larry was dead and Sarah and Elisa were running things. All Ginger knew from the first day was that it was the strangest office in which she’d ever worked.

When she first spoke with Elisa, Ginger got a quick slap in the face regarding her tenure in the firm. “I smoke dope and my daughter doesn’t know it.

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