The Body in Crooked Bayou by O'Neil De Noux

Author:O'Neil De Noux [Noux, O'Neil De]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Big Kiss Productions
Published: 2012-01-14T05:00:00+00:00

“But Adam Le Boeuf wasn’t murdered,” the doctor contended. “He drowned.”

“You can’t be that naive, doctor.” Barbara lowered her voice. “The cause of death was drowning. The manner of death was homicide.”

She sat up. “You took a thousands dollars from an ATM Monday night. That’s high for an ATM. You must have a high allowance amount, doctor. ATM’s have cameras now. It takes pictures of people who withdraw money from them and pictures of anyone else in the car at the time.”

She let that sink in a moment, then asked what he did with the money. “It’s going to have your prints on it.”

Shelton covered his face, then sat back. “I gave it to Denise Le Boeuf. I don’t know what she did with it.”

Barbara turned to Beau who leaned across the desk. “You’re insulting our intelligence, doctor. You gave her the money. She gave it to Luke Fenice and he turned it over to us. Along with you.”

Ten minutes later, Dr. Shelton was playing Let’s Make A Deal, he’ll tell everything as a state’s witness against them. Barbara explained the District Attorney’s Office made deals, not cops. “We just investigate.”

Shelton perked up and the tic went away. “I know the D.A. Play golf with him.”

He told the whole story. It was all Denise Le Boeuf’s idea. They booked him, let him make his call to the D.A’s Office up in Abbeville. The D.A. wasn’t in at ten p.m., so Shelton called a lawyer friend who would meet him at parish prison in the morning. They put Shelton in the cell across from Luke. Neither man would look at the other.

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Denise Le Boeuf wore a tan blouse and brown linen slacks. She’d brushed her lips with red lipstick, but didn’t have time for eye-shadow or blush. Beau couldn’t help thinking she was a looker, all right. A very attractive forty-year old woman, she was slim with sad, brown eyes and light brown hair, freshly brushed and hanging past her shoulders. He couldn’t help checking her out at the funeral earlier but had brushed those thought away. She was a widow then and now, a suspect.

Denise didn’t respond well to Barbara as she was read her rights. Denise started talking to Beau, so he took over. He was about to play nice cop in this interview, until she flipped her hair and gave him that look that told him she was interested. He caught a whiff of her perfume and decided to come right out with it.

“You’re under arrest for first degree murder.”

She sat back as if slapped across the face.

“Luke Fenice has given us a statement implicating you. Dr. Shelton corroborates that statement. They’re both in holding cells in the back. Shelton plans on making a deal with the D.A.” Beau stared into the brown eyes and saw them mist, before Denise wiped them and said, “I suspected Dr. Shelton may be involved in my husband’s death.” She leaned forward, conspiratorially, “He’s been infatuated with me for a while now.”

Beau checked the tape recorder to make sure the tape was still running as he said, “Tell me about it.

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