Sidney Becker Murder Mystery 03-Cold Revenge by Berry Linda

Author:Berry, Linda [Berry, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: American Suspense, Oregon, Suspense, USA, Police, Police Procedural, Murder, Murder Investigation
Publisher: Linda Berry
Published: 2020-04-29T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

A MURDER SUSPECT had just tried to kill two police officers. Every available cop in the county was out there, responding to the chase, and no one was going to give it up until they had to. After a pursuit at breakneck speed for miles, Darnell and Amanda lost eyes on the suspect. The black truck veered off the highway and gained ground by tearing across a rugged meadow of rye grass and nettles. The clincher came when it barreled into a rocky, fast moving stream and crossed easily to the other side. Darnell’s old department Ram truck braked at the bank, no match for the suspect’s souped-up vehicle with a suspension lift system and custom wheels and tires. The truck was a tank. Darnell zoomed up and down country roads, crisscrossing miles of territory surrounding the stream. Sidney and her officers stuck to the radio until final word came down two hours later. There had been no sightings whatsoever of a souped-up black truck on the highways and public roads. The suspect had vanished.

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Darnell and Amanda returned empty handed and dispirited. Their vexation was contagious, and a dark pallor hung over the station. Hopefully the APB would bring results once daylight hit. A black truck could blend in with the forest at night, but it would stand out like King Kong during the day.

When asked why they didn’t see the suspect leave the house, Amanda said they were distracted by the flames leaping out of a window on the east side of the house. The suspect apparently climbed out of a window on the west side of the house, got to his truck parked behind the garage, and peeled out before they could round the house.

Revisiting the aftermath of the evening’s events, they hunkered down in the conference room. Thoughts of the calamitous night swirled in their minds. Trying to save her voice, Sidney spoke very little, but stood in front of the crime board and pointed to the notes she added in the margin. They could only assume that the escape vehicle was Thomas’s stolen truck, driven by Olivia’s murderer—which meant Thomas was innocent, since he was locked in a cell here at the station. And most likely, the suspect was Mitch Turner. With everything incinerated in the house, Sidney prayed CSI would get a sample of his DNA to match what they had at the lab, possibly from the old truck that Jethro Todd described. Another question loomed large in their minds—where was his wife? Where was Becky Turner?

Sidney dismissed them at midnight. Everyone had earned a good night’s sleep. They’d convene in the morning at 10:00 a.m.

From her office window, Sidney watched Granger climb into his patrol truck drooping with fatigue; something she’d never witnessed before. Young, strong, mentally tough, a former Marine, he always seemed inexhaustible. Tonight, she understood the emotional strain that two murders in two days—one a close friend and fellow cop—had put on everyone, in addition to working long hours. Sidney, too, felt weary to the bone.

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