Runaway Justice (David Adams) by Chad Zunker

Author:Chad Zunker [Zunker, Chad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-FOUR

David parked behind Jess’s black Ford Explorer on the side of a dusty pothole-filled country road. A desolate plot of land that hosted a beat-up old RV trailer sat in front of him. The home of Richie Maylor, according to the employment form David had gotten from Freddy’s Salvage. It was out in the middle of nowhere. David had spotted only a couple of other residences for the past mile. Most were run-down trailers like this one, which looked like it hadn’t been moved in a really long time. Tall grass was growing up all around it. It was slightly off-balance and kind of sagged to the left. There was one vehicle parked out front, although he was certain it hadn’t been driven in ages. The old truck was rusted out, had two front tires missing, and had been completely enveloped in uncut grass and weeds. There were a couple of plastic lawn chairs sitting outside the trailer. A huge collection of what he guessed were empty beer cans covered the dirt ground around the chairs. There were a couple of rusted red barrels nearby. Other assorted trash and junk was scattered here and there. The place was a real dump.

Getting out, David turned and watched as the gray Buick with the two FBI agents pulled to the side of the road about fifty yards back. He rolled his eyes and then walked over to where Jess was waiting for him near the front of her vehicle.

“Still back there, huh?” Jess said, peering around him at the Buick.

“Yeah. Our tax dollars at work.” He stared at the trailer. “Is anyone home?”

“I haven’t seen anyone. But I just got here.”

“You said you had interesting news.”

“Yes, I spoke with a bartender at the Burping Goat. He knew Richie Maylor—although he didn’t know his last name. He said Maylor was at the bar almost every night. But he hadn’t seen him since this past Sunday. He said Maylor left early but told everyone he was about to get paid and was going to buy a round of drinks for everyone when he got back later that night. But he never came back.”

David thought about the timeline. “Sunday night was when Max Legley was shot.”

“Right. Hard to believe that’s a coincidence. I just ran a background check on Maylor. He did eighteen months for violent assault.”

“So he fits the bill. You think Rick Kingston hired him to take out his business partner before he testified against him?”

“Maybe. Although I did a Google search matching up Maylor’s name with both Kingston and Legley and found nothing connecting them online. Not much showed up on Maylor at all. No social media. No apparent involvement in any clubs or organizations. No comments or posts on any online forums. At least under his real name.”

“So if it was Kingston, how did he find Maylor?”

“No clue. But the bigger question for me right now is how did Richie Maylor know that Parker was at the Hand-Up Home?”

“Right. Because he showed up right after I checked the kid into the facility.

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