Coleman, Christopher - The Gretel Series: Books 1-3 by Coleman Christopher

Author:Coleman, Christopher [Coleman, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christopher Coleman
Published: 2017-09-04T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Dodd read over his notes one more time and then tucked the book deep into the glove box of the cruiser. It was his interview with the boy who had heard the screams of his friends coming from the backyard of the cabin. The cabin where the infamous woman of the Northlands once tried to make a meal of a young mother.

During the interview, which Dodd had tried to make casual and conversational, the boy’s mother had sat in with her son—Franklin—while the father roamed from room to room, uninterested in the plot of the investigation, scoffing at the suggestion of foul play.

“The boys were no good,” he had offered. “They ran away. It’s as simple as that. If you knew the boys’ parents, you wouldn’t be considering any other possibilities.”

“I’ve spoken with them, Mr. Blixt,” Dodd had replied, just to keep the record straight.

“Well then, you know.”

“And the screams, sir? What about the screams your son heard?”

“What do you mean ‘screams?’ Those boys are pranksters. They were only scaring Frankie. And they done it too. All of ya. Look at all of ya.”

Had Dodd not known better, he may have considered Mr. Blixt a suspect, so eager to turn thoughts away from the idea that a crime had been committed.

But Dodd did know better.

He had questioned Mr. Blixt further, fishing for more details about the missing boys, gathering what theories he could to form a reasonable explanation for the disappearance of seemingly happy, if somewhat neglected, children. But Dodd had no doubt about the truth. He had been waiting for months for a call just like the one that had come across his radio two weeks back. And when it finally came, he had known instantly the woman was free from her hatch and had murdered the children coldly.

Obviously though, his report would have to say something much different.

And so, it had. After a week of searches from the local constabulary and a handful of volunteers, and then another week of searches and interviews from the System, Dodd had closed the case from his end and turned it over to the Department of the Missing and Absent. Dodd’s official conclusion: runaways.

M&A would disseminate pictures of the boys, but the System searches would not continue. If the boys’ bodies were ever found, it wouldn’t be by his organization. He supposed the boys’ parents could finance whatever search parties they could afford—maybe hire some hounds from a local hunter to go over the area around the cabin one more time—but judging by his official interviews with those folks, Dodd doubted there would be much to finance their own investigation. Dodd didn’t care what they did now; he was clean of the case and could now focus his efforts on the only thing he cared about—finding the witch.

Dodd stepped out of the cruiser and walked to the area where Franklin had said he and his friends were when he ran off. It wasn’t far from the pit where the woman had hidden for all those months.

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