The Confession by Lowe Tom

Author:Lowe, Tom
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Kingsbridge
Published: 2019-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

FORTY-EIGHT

Over the weekend, the sheriff’s department would only acknowledge that an arrest had been made. As promised, on Monday morning at 10:00 a.m., a news conference was called. Sheriff Dawson stood behind a gooseneck microphone mounted on a wooden podium in a conference room designed to hold fifty people. An inch-wide, flesh-colored bandage covering the six stiches sewn into Dawson’s forehead on Friday evening stood out.

There were five rows of plastic chairs filled with news media and a few employees from the district attorney’s office. The reporters arriving late stood along the back wall near the TV cameras on tripods. Phones placed on silence were vibrating and buzzing in pockets and purses. Members of the news media, including some from outside the local area, packed the room.

To both sides of the sheriff were his highest-ranking staff, the chief deputy sheriff to Dawson’s left, the district attorney—a gangly man in a dark suit—to the sheriff’s right. Four detectives, including Mike Bradford and Bill Lee were behind the sheriff next to an American flag on a stand.

Elizabeth Monroe sat in the back row, close to the left corner.

The sheriff’s community relations director, a blonde woman in her late twenties, stood near the entrance door, iPad in one hand. She gave the sheriff the thumbs-up signal. He nodded, looked at the reporters, cleared his throat and began. “Good morning everyone. I’m pleased to announce we have made an arrest for the murder of Wanda Donnelly. The man arrested is identified as Boyd Baxter. Detectives Mike Bradford and Bill Lee brought Mr. Baxter in for questioning on Friday evening. After that, with the physical evidence our CSI department gathered at the scene, we made the arrest. We guarantee you that we also will solve the murders of Brian Woods and Olivia Curtis soon as this has been a dark cloud over our county these last few weeks. We are looking into any possible links between Wanda Donnelly’s murder and the murders of Woods and Curtis, and we will not rest until these crimes are solved. Baxter will now go through his first appearance in court.”

A tall reporter in a navy-blue sports coat raised his hand. The sheriff ignored him and glanced over to the prosecutor standing near the podium and said, “The district attorney’s office has filed a capital murder charge against Mr. Baxter. DA Roland Hendrix will speak with y’all in just a minute. I want to take a second to acknowledge the extraordinary investigative work that was done by this department to sift through the evidence, and to find and apprehend the suspect as quickly as they did. Detectives Bradford and Lee will be available for interviews as will I after the press conference. While I’m standin’ up here, if you have a few questions, now you can feel free to ask.”

The same male reporter in the blue sports coat, standing next to a cameraman with the TV camera on his shoulder, asked, “Sheriff Dawson. Where is Boyd Baxter now? When’s his first court appearance?”

“Baxter’s being held here at the county jail.

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