The Book of Witness- Omnibus Edition by Erick Mertz

Author:Erick Mertz [Mertz, Erick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Longbranch Productions
Published: 2020-02-19T22:00:00+00:00

On October 15th, Josephine police were called to a gravel turnout roughly three hundred yards north of the sinkhole. There were reports of a green car parked on the shoulder with its tail end sticking dangerously out into oncoming traffic.

Officer Sandy Demps parked a short ways down the road from the green car. He approached the driver’s side door cautiously, announcing his presence before touching the handle. Demps would later report that he wasn’t nervous at all, but the other officer on the scene, Glenn Tidlow, said he was shaking like a leaf.

“What do you see, Sandy?”

Demps jumped back from the car door just as a delivery truck rushed by, scattering yellow and brown leaves.

Tidlow shouted, “Do you need any help?”

Demps nodded glumly, yes. “Yeah, call for back-up.”

Tidlow nodded, becoming nervous as well. “OK…”

“And you better call Barrett Albright at the Josephine Post Office, too,” Demps said. “Think he’s going to want to take a look at this, too.”

Barrett Albright was a fussy sort. A mail carrier for nearly twenty years, for the last eight months he had been serving as interim postmaster for the Josephine Post Office.

Albright took one look at the green car and gasped.

“What is it?” Officer Demps asked, seizing on his reaction.

“That car belongs to… Fannie Blair,” he replied.

“Is she the woman whose…?” Tidlow asked.

Demps interrupted him with a quick nod.

In that moment, for some reason Albright could not quite explain, he burst into tears.

Demps and Tidlow intervened. Eventually, they managed to calm Albright enough that he could explain what had him so worked up.

Blair was a mail carrier. She was assigned to #442. She was one of the oldest and most trusted carriers in all of Canyon County.

Once Albright finally gathered his composure, Demps escorted him back to town. They visited the Josephine Post Office where they consulted Blair’s personnel record.

“You need me to go with you, officer?” Albright asked.

Demps and Tidlow shared a look.

“No thank you, Mister Albright,” Demps said. “You’ve been help enough.”

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