Cause and Effect (Lieutenant Kane - Dedicated to Death Series Book 4) by E.H. Reinhard

Author:E.H. Reinhard [Reinhard, E.H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

I’d spent another ten minutes talking to the husband. I felt for the guy, provided that everything he told me was truthful, which I’d do my part to check out. He said that after fifteen years of what he thought was a great marriage, he was starting to suspect that she was being unfaithful. I questioned what was making him feel that way. He mentioned how she’d been acting as of late—distant, and always more interested in her phone than him. Dalke mentioned her changing the password on her cell phone and something about finding a couple of beer cans that weren’t his in the trash. He claimed his wife would never drink a beer. When he questioned her about it, she said that she found them in the backyard. He didn’t buy it.

The topic of a wife screwing around and the associated feelings was something I was all too familiar with thanks to my ex-wife. I could relate to what Dalke was going through. He gave me the details of his travel back to the area. He had a layover in Atlanta for a few hours. He said he called her multiple times, but she didn’t answer. He said he was worried on his flight from Atlanta to Orlando that something was wrong.

Mr. Dalke talked about turning his phone on while he was taxiing down the runway and waiting for a message from her to arrive. None ever came. He said he’d called her multiple times after he landed and during his drive back to Tampa, but he never got an answer. Her failure to pick up only added to his suspicion of infidelity. He described how he pulled into the garage and didn’t see her car. He said he sat in his car inside the garage for a few minutes, wondering who the other guy could be. He couldn’t think of anyone. Dalke said he sat there wondering where she was and what would happen when she got home—would she confess, would she leave him, would she make up some flimsy excuse for her whereabouts? He showed me the call log on his phone. He’d tried calling her twenty-three times. The gaps in his call times lined up with when he said he was in the air. Dalke’s entire story would have cast a ton of suspicion on him if it didn’t sound so damn truthful.

I glanced to my right, and Rick was walking into the living room from the garage. He wore a blue rain jacket with the word Forensics on it in yellow print. A rain-soaked gray kit hung from his hand. I saw him set it down on the small square of tile just inside the door.

“Mr. Dalke, I’m going to have one of my detectives here give you a ride back to our station so you can give us an official statement. Standard procedure. We’re going to get to work here and see what we can find out. From there, you’ll have to go over to the county medical examiner’s office.

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