Scent of Evil by Mayor Archer

Author:Mayor, Archer [Mayor, Archer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: USA
ISBN: 9781939767035
Publisher: MarchMedia
Published: 1992-03-27T13:00:00+00:00

21

KLESCZEWSKI APPEARED AT THE SCREEN DOOR, followed by Tyler and several other police officers, who filed past us into the apartment. Rose and John Woll sat side by side on the couch, looking as if they were being held at gunpoint. In fact, no one was paying any attention to them.

Tyler handed me the search warrant as he went by. His voice was flat to the point of rudeness. “Harrowsmith was not thrilled at the procedure.”

“You mean that the warrant was triggered by a Consent to Search?”

He nodded curtly. “He had questions I couldn’t answer.”

I opened my mouth to respond, but he disappeared down the hall into the bedroom, his enormous evidence box tilting him to one side.

I looked to Klesczewski for an explanation. Tyler usually came to these scenes like a beagle to the hunt. This testy display was so rare as to be unique.

Klesczewski waited until the last of Tyler’s team had gone by. “Everyone’s heard that you and Brandt sat on the evidence against John. They’re a little pissed off you didn’t trust them, and more than a little pissed that the shit’s going to hit the fan in the papers.”

I noticed he’d severed himself from Brandt’s and my conspiracy, siding with the disgruntled lower deck as mutiny loomed on the horizon. I obviously had some major bridge-repairing to do.

That, however, would have to wait. I crossed over to the Wolls, Klesczewski in tow, and pulled an armchair around so that it was directly facing them. Ron parked himself on the corner of a sturdy coffee table, notebook in hand, slightly to one side.

I looked at Rose and tilted my head in Ron’s direction. “You two know each other, don’t you?”

She nodded silently.

“I want him to hear this conversation, since things have become more formalized with the search warrant. I also want him to read you your rights. You’re not under arrest, of course, but I have to let you know you’re under no obligation to talk to us.”

They both barely nodded. I glanced at Ron, who recited their litany of rights by heart.

I resumed speaking when he’d finished. “The State’s Attorney will probably be taking over the investigation from us, at least as far as you and John are concerned. Otherwise people could complain of a conflict of interest. You understand that?”

Rose didn’t look as though she understood anything. “You mean because of the watch?”

“Yeah. That, and other things. John was seen in an area where Charlie’s body was later discovered, John’s cigarette was found in Charlie’s grave, and his footprints were in the soil around the grave site. In addition, you’d been having an affair with Charlie, about which John was aware, and there’s a history of conflict between the three of you going back to high school, including your pregnancy. And now Charlie’s watch, presumably the one that was missing from his wrist, is found in your apartment. It’s all what they call circumstantial evidence, but it is beginning to stack up.”

This time, they both nodded without a word.

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