(eng) Madelyn Alt - Bewitching Mystery 05 by Where There's a Witch

Author:Where There's a Witch [Witch, Where There's a]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Bewitching Mystery 5 - Where There's a Witch

Chapter 10

We all crowded around the paper. Front and center on the page was a lurid photo of the crime scene with its yellow DO NOT CROSS tape and red flags of evidence markers. The photo was taken in daylight, so they must have gone out as soon as the sun came up this morning. Very industrious of them.

U-L-C . . .

The memory of the Ouija spirit rose fresh and unbidden in my mind.

“They shouldn’t have put that picture out there for just anyone to see,” Evie said, grimacing. “It’s just not right.”

“I don’t think the press—even the small-town variety—have any understanding of callousness, you know,” Marian said. “It’s regrettable, but they seem to think their quest for readers justifies their sensationalizing the facts.”

Sensationalizing. That was a good word, I decided as I read the article. The facts presented about the crime itself seemed to be fairly straightforward. It was the additional information they had dug up that was questionable.

“Did anyone here talk to anyone associated with the newspaper?” I asked. Everyone present shook their heads in the negative. “Hm. I’m sure Marcus didn’t, either. Which leads me to wonder where they got their information.”

“There was any number of people there last night that could’ve spilled the beans.”

“Yes, but how many of them knew that Marcus is a knife maker?” I asked.

“It says that in there?” Evie asked, her eyes widening with sudden nervousness.

“That and a whole lot of other things.”

The “other things” included the fact that one Charles Howell, an employee of the Furlow Construction Company, which had been hired by the church for its recent renovation plans, had discovered the body, along with me (Maggie O’Neill, an employee of downtown area gift shop Enchantments, it read), Marcus (described as a part-time musician and independent knife maker), two female minors who would not be named in order to protect their identity, and Mrs. Letty Clark, mother-in-law to the minister of the church. Was I the only one who thought the inclusion of our places of employment ventured a little too far into our privacy? Also included was the fact that I had witnessed Veronica Maddox there with Tyler T. Bennett of the Little Turtle Trailer Court out on the State Road. Mr. Bennett was currently being questioned by authorities, the article stated; more information would be forthcoming, but it did appear that an arrest was possible.

I couldn’t say that I was happy to have my witness statement exposed to the world at large. It seemed an awful lot of information to let out in an open murder investigation, and it surprised me. I wondered if Tom or Chief Boggs had vetted the flow of information to the reporter. Somehow, I didn’t think so.

The rest of the article was dedicated to a thrown-together recap of the victim’s life. A poor life, raised by a single mother. Where her father was, who knew? No one they interviewed. A friend, a former teacher, and her mother chimed in about poor Ronnie, each with their own take on the girl’s psyche.

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