Needle Work by Fred Rosen

Author:Fred Rosen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497697218
Publisher: Open Road Distribution

Ten

It had been four hours in a cramped, hot, stuffy interview room, four hours of a sordid tale that implicated Carol Giles directly in the murder of Nancy Billiter. You didn’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out she was no longer a witness but a principal.

Messina asked Carol to stand up. When she did, he told her that she was under arrest for the murder of Nancy Billiter.

“But—”

“Just listen. You have the right to remain silent. If you give up your right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to the presence of an attorney. If you cannot afford one, the court will appoint one for you. Do you understand these rights?”

“Yes,” said Carol.

Messina put the cuffs on her.

“Okay.”

Messina did not want Carol lodged in West Bloomfield, where Collier already was. It was a small jail; it would be too easy for them to talk to each other, to get their stories straight. Instead, he called in another favor and found her accommodations in a cell in the Oakland County Jail. But before she got there, he wanted her to make a few stops first.

Carol had given Messina a lot of information in her statement about where the evidence of the homicide had been secreted in various Dumpsters throughout the county. He sent her out with a few officers to recover that evidence, which they eventually did. Once that was done, she was taken to her cell in the Oakland County Jail.

Prisoners have rights, even when incarcerated. One of those rights is the ability to make phone calls during recreation periods. That night, Carol made a phone call.

At Phyllis Burke’s house, the phone rang. Nancy’s mother picked it up.

“Will you accept a collect phone call from Carol Giles?” the operator asked.

Burke looked down at her caller ID. The digital readout was OAKLAND COUNTY JAIL.

Burke hung up and called her daughter Susan. She told her that Carol was the one and that she should come over right away. Susan didn’t understand, but she came over quickly. When her daughter arrived, Burke said that she thought it was Carol who killed Nancy.

Burke explained that she had just gotten a collect phone call from Nancy. She was in the Oakland County Jail. What would she be doing there—unless she’d killed Nancy?

Susan paused to think.

“Mom, call the police and tell them what’s going on. Make a report.”

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