The Want-Ad Killer by Ann Rule

Author:Ann Rule [Rule, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 1983-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

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Somehow, common sense prevailed with Alice Carignan; she remained in Seattle, and Harvey left without her. He resumed his crusade by mail.

He beseeched her to refrain from sexual relations with other men and told her of his haunting wish that she would still one day return to him.

Alice had suggested that they remain good friends, but Harvey wrote that they were actually “poor tormented lovers, with a love as great as Abelard and Heloise, Antony and Cleopatra, and Romeo and Juliet.” He proclaimed that their romance was just as tragic as any of the blighted affairs recorded down through history. Of course, it was not his fault. Alice was at fault because she did not have the courage to join him in Minneapolis, and he clearly couldn’t return to Seattle, no matter how much he burned for her.

He could not come back to Seattle without facing another confrontation with Duane Homan and Billy Baughman, and they had begun to get under his skin. They knew nothing certain, of course, but they nagged at him and kept up with their questions. He couldn’t understand their tenacity. They didn’t know that the game was over; they didn’t know when to quit.

He tried to explain to Alice why he had had to run once again back to Minnesota.

“There were people watching me, people praying I’d do just one little thing wrong so they could crush me, or even kill me. People who can’t stand to be wrong; people who with malice and perfidy have tried to ruin me for something I didn’t do, people who have convinced themselves I am wrong and they are right, people who could murder me in cold blood to prove they are right, and I am wrong, two men who would do anything to prove a case they fabricated in their vicious and twisted minds. I was afraid to die that day. I had to leave. . . . Everything that was done to me was done with malice, lies, and twisting truths until they too became lies.”

The two “villains” possessed of “vicious and twisted minds” were, of course, Billy Baughman and Duane Homan. It was true that they continued on Harvey’s case, although the chance of arresting him for Kathy Miller’s murder now seemed a lost cause. Their quarry still walked free, although thousands of miles away. As long as he was free, they dreaded the very real possibility that his toll would mount. They knew there was nothing left for them to do to prevent it.

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