Honor Thy Father by Jason Holland

Author:Jason Holland [Holland, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781943505692
Publisher: Teresa Medeiros

Chapter Forty-Five

Hunter and Kirk sat in the library/conference room of Hunter’s office, cups of coffee in front of them. As intended, it was the most impressive room in the building. The usual array of a lawyer’s unread law books and treatises lined shelves which had been hand-made nearly a century before and refinished by Hunter in the last decade.

Hunter had the documents provided by L.G. Owens’s office spread out in front of him. Police reports, lists of evidentiary items that had been collected for testing at the KSP lab, the original citation, the indictment—all part of the documentation legally required to be given by the prosecution to a criminal defendant. They were now in the process of going over each one piece by piece.

Hunter was seated directly across from Kirk, scribbling various thoughts and lists on a yellow notebook. There were obviously no eye witnesses to the crime itself, so the case would be based purely on circumstantial evidence. The home belonged to Kirk, so there would be a multitude of physical evidence that would tie him to the crime scene. Much of which, Hunter knew, could be plausibly explained.

On the other hand, Kirk had found the body and called the police, so there would be no problem, at least on the surface, for the prosecution to establish opportunity. That, standing alone, didn’t go very far toward proving Kirk had been the killer.

The physical evidence was, at least initially, somewhat daunting. Traces of Cassandra’s blood had been found in Kirk’s Tahoe and both inside and outside the yacht. The interior traces could possibly be explained by the fact that Cassandra had been in both the truck and the boat on many occasions. Maybe she had been cut at some point while she was in either, hopefully both, of the two locations. Since Cassandra wasn’t available to ask, Hunter asked the next best person.

“Do you remember any specific time recently when Cassandra was on the boat and might have cut herself or had an open wound of some sort?”

Kirk shook his head. “I don’t, Hunter. That’s just not the kind of thing most people keep on instant recall.”

Fair enough, Hunter thought. They would have to check the autopsy report to see if there were any signs of recent minor cuts or abrasions unrelated to her murder. Even if Cassandra’s body did have such marks on it, there was a decent chance the report wouldn’t mention it. Hunter made a note to have their own medical expert look for them. It was, he knew, the kind of expert detail afforded only to the wealthy. Kirk would be able to buy the best experts in the world if need be. At least they had that going for them.

Of course, there was still the issue of Kirk’s monogrammed razor blade having been found in the lake just off the front of the yacht, wrapped in the identically-monogrammed blood-soaked towel. This evidence was the most damaging part of the case. But, as Kirk had pointed out, it was almost too convenient, depending on your perspective.

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