The Haunting of June Allen by Mason Dean

Author:Mason Dean [Dean, Mason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-11T04:00:00+00:00

The next morning was a teacher’s conference day at Samantha’s school, but June dropped her off at a friend’s house for the day so she could continue her plan. All morning she had gone back and forth over where to go with this new evidence, but in the end, though she knew it was a bit risky, June decided to just go see Roger Baker in person. The negatives of going to any police agency seemed too great to her just on the outside chance that they were involved and might give Baker a heads up that this “busy-body” woman was poking around in the old case. Baker might turn violent as well, but June decided that in a public place, that was unlikely. She figured the expected outcome was one of two things. Either Baker would see he had been found out and perhaps just confess to the whole scheme and turn himself in to possibly avoid a harsher punishment, or he would simply deny the entire accusation and all the evidence she had outright.

Based on what she knew of his background, the first option seemed very slim and a denial more likely sticking with the tried and true verdict that Isabelle Orton had gone mad. But either way, June was hoping to at least let him be aware of what she knew and then just wait and see how it played out. Much like she had with Stanley Garrity, June got a meeting with Baker under the guise of a journalist. She led him thru the same litany of things that Garrity had addressed, but she really was paying no attention to his long-winded, ego-based answers as she decided to slip into the questions that might go quite badly with him.

She began innocently enough telling him she had returned to Glasgow after an absence of a few years and was living at the cabin just outside town. June knew it was dangerous letting him know where she lived, but with his connections and the small size of Glasgow, it was not like he would have trouble figuring it out anyway. She was hoping to pick up some reaction—even a facial tic or some other nonverbal clue—when she mentioned the cabin where the murders had taken place, but Baker seemed unfazed and indifferent. That told June one of two things: either she was way off base about his guilt, or Baker was so devious, cunning, and manipulative that he could put on a bland mask of neutrality at will.

June then figured that since she had now opened the box, she was committed to following through on her plan…the old adage, “you made your bed, now lie in it,” came to her mind. She forged ahead, making her case point by point and using each and every piece of evidence she had gathered over the last few weeks to let him know what she suspected. Baker continued to have no real observable reaction to any of it, so June handed

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