No Regrets, Coyote by John Dufresne

Author:John Dufresne [Dufresne, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery & Crime
ISBN: 9780393240696
Google: 4fsJFKwWezAC
Amazon: B00AR3544C
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-07-15T07:00:00+00:00

The officers found two retractable dog leashes hung on the kitchen doorknob, but no evidence of a dog.

“I strangled Kelly after she blacked out, just like I strangled the other one.”

“Vera.”

“That was her name?”

“Vera Chapman. Fourteen.”

“She lied to me.”

“About?”

“Told me her name was Annie and she was sixteen. Little shit.” Wayne smiled.

Carlos clicked his pen.

Wayne said, “Funny how on TV they said she’d been abducted by two guys in a black car.”

“Funny?”

“Was just me and my hammer.”

Carlos tapped his pen on his notepad. He leaned toward Wayne. “Why?”

“Did I kill?”

“Yes.”

“I don’t have any reasons.”

“I have a hard time believing that.”

“And that’s my problem?”

“Why these two girls?”

“The first was just random. Kelly was the chosen one.”

“And why did you choose her?”

“She made it easy. She made herself available. She offered herself to me as a sacrifice, you could say.”

“Have you killed others?”

“I know what I’ve done here. I’m not making excuses. I don’t behave like this normally. There’s nothing you can do but put me away. Snuff me out. I didn’t kill anyone else, but I can’t promise that I won’t. There’s a beast inside here I can’t control. Am I responsible for who I am? I was made like this. I didn’t choose to be a monster. Sometimes I disgust myself. But I want you to know that I am capable of goodness, too.”

“I’ll make a note.”

“There were other girls. I could have eliminated them, but I said, ‘Dutch, leave them be,’ and I saved their lives if you think about it.”

“What were your intentions with Sable Chestnut?”

“Honorable.”

Carlos clicked the pen.

“Going to do the right thing and marry the girl.” He smiled. “Till death do us part.”

Carlos said, “Now we’re going to go through both murders step by step. You’re going to tell me exactly what went on with the girls.”

Wayne confessed to murdering, butchering, marinating, grilling, and serving cuts of Vera to Myka Flores and two other cashiers at Publix. He told his guests they were eating wild boar—that’s why it tasted gamy.

“I must have hit her just right,” he said. She never woke up. He strapped Vera in the front seat of his compact car with the seat belt and rested her head on his shoulder as he drove the few blocks home. He parked the car in his backyard and carried her into the house. “As soon as I hit her I wished I could have taken it back.” He opened her up in the bathtub. “I should have checked her for a pulse first, but I suppose she was beyond feeling by then.” He gutted the corpse, let it bleed out, and iced it down before he went off to Home Depot. He had planned the same fate for Kelly, he said, but after raping, beating, and strangling her, he said he lost heart, figured she had suffered enough. “It took me maybe fifteen or twenty minutes to get her completely dead.”

So why had Wayne come to therapy for those several weeks when he had, it

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