A Moment Too Late by Rachael Brownell

Author:Rachael Brownell [Brownell, Rachael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rachael Brownell Books
Published: 2021-06-10T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

As soon as we are back to my room, Jay and I laid out a timeline of the events of Sam’s night that have been confirmed by the reports included in the case file.

The pub was slow, so she was sent home early since she was on overtime after picking up my shift. With all the college students on break, Sam was working extra hours. Not that she minded. She was saving her money for a car and she knew even with a slow week, the extra shifts would bring in the last little bit of cash she needed.

She left the bar at roughly ten o’clock. This was confirmed by her timecard, showing she clocked out at one minute after the hour, and again by a patron who saw her walk into the park around quarter after ten as he was getting out of his vehicle that was parked in front of Riley’s.

There were four text exchanges after she clocked out. Sam sent the first one to me at ten-ten asking if I’d made it back to town yet. According to the log the police obtained from her cell provider, I replied twenty-nine minutes later.

I remember reading her text that night and replying before I walked in the door of my apartment. That means I was driving past the park around ten-thirty as I made my way home.

The second text Sam sent was at ten-twenty-one to Jay, asking if he wanted to come straight to her house when he got back to town. Jay didn’t respond to her text until close to midnight saying he was still almost an hour away and was going home to bed.

There are witness statements from a couple that was making out in the park that night until it started to rain. Neither of them saw or heard anything. They entered around ten-thirty and left close to eleven o’clock, coming and going close to where Sam was attacked, using the east entrance.

Summer called the police to report Sam missing a little after eight o’clock the next morning when she didn’t show up for work or answer her phone. She found Sam’s bed still made, as if she hadn’t slept in it the night before, so she called Jay to see if Sam was with him, but he was asleep. By the time she called me, I was already in class and I had to send her to voicemail.

Sam’s body was found at eight-thirty in the morning by a neighbor as she was walking her dog. The dog started to go crazy and pulled the elderly lady into the alcove where Sam’s body was hidden behind a line of bushes.

The police determined Sam died between ten-thirty and eleven o’clock at night. Her cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head which caused her to bleed out.

Her walk home from Riley’s was less than a mile. It usually only took her twenty minutes, which was why she didn’t mind walking when it was nice outside.

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