Partners in Crime by Rachel Bowdler

Author:Rachel Bowdler [Rachel Bowdler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rachel Bowdler
Published: 2022-05-09T00:00:00+00:00

Five

It felt wrong to sit in the basement and record the podcast the following Tuesday morning, even to Thea. They’d agreed to broach the recent murders with caution, leaving all names out of it and asking that if any listeners had information, they should come forward with it. After that, they fell back into a slightly terse stream of banter as they discussed the horror movies they’d seen that week — a rewatch of Carrie for Thea and cult classic The Lost Boys for Bryce, which had broken Thea’s heart, since Bryce had traitorously enjoyed hot, earring-wearing vampire Kiefer Sutherland without her.

Then they moved onto another true crime story — one that Thea had been dying to talk about for a while now.

“‘Our Jane Doe was given the eerie name of the “Lady of the Lake” when she was found drowned on that fateful day in 1977,’” she read from her notes. “‘To this day, nobody has been able to identify the body. All that’s known about her is that she was a twenty-something woman dressed all in white.’”

“Which is weird in itself,” Bryce chimed in. “She was in a summer dress, barefoot, in the middle of a freezing Minnesota winter. None of her other belongings ever turned up, and there was no evidence of assault save for the bruises on her shoulders, which suggested her head was pushed below the water by someone else.”

“But what was she doing there?” Thea wondered aloud. “We’ll probably never know. It’s crazy to think that someone out there might’ve been the last person to see her alive.”

“It’s devastating.” Shuddering, Bryce sipped her flask of coffee before she continued. “Our Lady of the Lake was buried in an unmarked grave not too far from where she was found. Some of the town members even left fresh flowers for her each year, but I still don’t understand how there wasn’t one person there who could have helped to identify her. I speak from experience when I say that people in small communities have a way of knowing everything about everyone.”

Thea shrugged, glancing up to find Mikey motioning for them to wrap it up. “Maybe she was a secret agent or something.”

Bryce rolled her eyes. “All right, that’s about all we have time for today. Next week’s episode will be all about a man who was killed by a lethal order of ramen noodles. Make sure you listen and subscribe, and please stay safe out there.”

“Bye,” added Thea. It was the only thing she could think to say after such a subdued episode.

As soon as Mikey cut the recording, Bryce pouted and slipped off her headphones so that she could press her face to the table without obstruction. “I didn’t like that.”

“We didn’t say or do anything wrong.” Thea resisted the urge to reach out for Bryce’s extended hand, instead swivelling around on her chair to face Mikey. “What did you think, Mikey?”

Mikey lifted his brows in surprise. “You’re asking me?”

“Yes.” It wasn’t as though Thea and Bryce ignored his very existence.

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