Moonlight Weeps by Vincent Zandri

Author:Vincent Zandri [Zandri, Vincent]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crime, Mystery & Detective, Private Investigators, Suspense, Thriller
ISBN: 9781643962269
Google: 0fx7zgEACAAJ
Publisher: Down & Out Books
Published: 2021-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 37

It’s going on ten in the morning by the time we pull out of the Albany County Lockup parking lot.

“Where to now since we can’t get donuts?” Elvis asks.

“State Senator Bates’ home.”

“Sure we’re gonna feel welcome there?”

“Not really.”

“Maybe we should get ourselves cleaned up first.”

“Not a bad idea, Elvis. Every now and then you come out with something stunning.”

“Now who’s the bully?”

We make our way through downtown Albany where I make a right onto Broadway, heading south. When I arrive at the entrance to the deserted Port of Albany, I pull in and drive across the empty, weed-filled lot to the old warehouse buildings that line the docks where the giant ships used to be moored.

While Elvis showers up, his beefy voice bellowing a water-soaked “Blue Hawaii” throughout the twenty-five hundred square foot, wood plank-floored loft, I crack a morning beer and search the internet for the home address of New York State Senator Jeffery Bates. I’m not even half way done with my beer before I find the address which, as it turns out, isn’t all that far from Schroder’s house. In fact, when I Google Map the location, I can easily see that Bates’ house is located less than a mile from the brain surgeon on the same road, same development, same Schuyler Meadow’s Country Club golf course butting up against its backyard.

I finish the beer, crack another one. Elvis has finished with “Blue Hawaii” and now he’s begun “Love Me Tender.”

“You’re not doing anything funky in my shower, are you, Elvis?” I shout out.

“Very funny, Mr. Moonlight. I can’t even see my dick much less hold it.”

Since he’s taking so long, I decide to Google Amanda Bates. The web search doesn’t reveal a whole lot other than her Facebook page, which has been shut down in the wake of her death. Turns out there are quite a few Amanda Bates’ in the world and sifting through every one of them doesn’t appeal to me. I go to The Albany Times Union to view the obit which makes her out to be a loving, devoted, sinless daughter and not one who would lure the likes of Stephen Schroder into a bedroom and then cry rape. Just looking at the grainy image of her face, she seems sweet, young, adorable, and innocent. A Lola look-a-like from a long time ago.

There’s an article about Stephen’s arrest and his pending conviction of reckless murder along with a quote by Detective Miller: “If it turns out that Schroder is indeed directly responsible for the suicide of Amada Bates, we will stop at nothing to see that he is charged to the fullest extent of the law.” Another quote follows his. It’s by a law professor at The Albany Law School: “If Stephen Schroder is charged and inevitably convicted of reckless murder,” he states, “it will set a brand new precedent for hate crimes perpetrated via social media. This isn’t the first time a child has committed suicide because of humiliating second

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