Three Classic Volumes From the Crime Files of Ann Rule by Ann Rule

Author:Ann Rule [Rule, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: True Crime, Nonfiction
Publisher: New York : Pocket Books
Published: 1997-07-04T04:00:00+00:00

"But who's thinking about committing one?" Tim countered.

"You never thought about committing a crime?"

"No, I haven't."

"Never have? Nothing's ever gone through your mind—you never picked up the paper and read about how somebody turned around and committed a bank robbery, or committed some kind of crime, and they got caught for it . . . and you thought, 'No, damn, if I was going to do something like that, I wouldn't have done it that way. I'd'a turned around and done it some other way.' You never thought about anything like that? Most normal people do."

"I must not be normal, then," Tim said mildly.

There was no time in this room, cosseted and isolated by the thick barrier of law books along its walls. The three men sat there, conversing in a deceptively mild way, as if two were not hunters and one was not their quarry. No bead of sweat marked Tim Harris's forehead; he stretched his long legs out comfortably on the carpeted floor. To a casual observer they might only have been three lawmen having a friendly conversation. And yet Rick Mcllwain's questions were narrowing more and more into one channel, the channel that led straight back to the murder of Lorraine Hendricks.

Tim reminded Rick Mcllwain and Phil Williams that he had been cooperative with all their requests for searches. "I've done everything that you asked me to do . . . short of finding the person who killed her."

Phil Williams recalled that Tim had refused the lie box.

Phil posed a question to Tim that only a cop would understand. "If you found narcotics in a vehicle, and there's somebody in the backseat . . . does that person know there's narcotics in the front seat?"

The question gave Tim Harris a chance to admit he was peripherally involved in Lorraine Hendricks's murder, but not the man they were looking for.

"Maybe," Tim Harris said inscrutably.

He showed no distress, no tension, but he was getting a little annoyed. Tim insisted they were focusing on him only because of the battery charges Sandy had filed against him and all the other marital troubles he had been going through. "I'm not the only one going through a divorce right now."

Tim wanted to know if he was still a "witness," or had he become a "suspect"?

He was still a witness, they assured him, but he clearly didn't believe them. He reminded them that he had come in against his

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