Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-N-Craft Mystery Box Set by Joanna Campbell Slan

Author:Joanna Campbell Slan [Slan, Joanna Campbell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spot On Publishing
Published: 2019-06-10T22:00:00+00:00

7

I sank back down on the grass. “What makes you so sure he’s innocent?” I’d been accused once of a crime I didn’t do. I knew how helpless a person could feel. But I needed proof that Detweiler wasn’t shining me on. I couldn’t trust myself—and I wasn’t about to trust him.

He talked a mile a minute. “Rory and Ms. Gilchrist were involved. Romantically. But they were in love. He’d never hurt her.”

“You know this because?”

While Chad Detweiler had been training to become a policeman, he’d volunteered for a youth basketball program. “Rory bounced around from foster home to foster home. His adoptive parents had both died from complications of diabetes. I guess you could say he and I bonded. He was like a younger brother. I had him over to the farm. My sisters adored him. He helped my dad with chores. My mom even taught him to make pie crust! We played ball together. The kid was a natural. His talent was impressive.”

The two remained friends even as Rory was given a college scholarship by an anonymous donor to study history and sports management.

“I visited him on Big Brother weekends at college. We’ve always stayed close. We’ve been friends for eight years,” he finished.

I had to admit, this was pretty compelling. Still, I couldn’t keep silent.

“You said he’d never hurt Sissy. On what do you base that? A man can be one way with his guy friends and another with women. You know that.”

“I taught Rory to drive. He had his permit, we were on a city street, and he ran up a curb rather than hit a baby bird that was in the street. He worshiped his adoptive mother. Loved both his parents, actually. But she was a really strong role model. And he treated my sisters and my mother with total respect.”

Detweiler sighed. “I’m not saying it couldn’t’ve happened. I’ve been a cop too long to say a person would never snap. But I can tell you they were going to get married. He knew she was flawed. He knew she had a past. They talked about it. Seems to me, if you can talk, you don’t need to resort to violence.”

“If they were planning a future together, why is he under suspicion?”

“They’d been seen having a disagreement early that morning. He doesn’t have an alibi for the time she was killed. He says he was in his office working on baseball rosters. You know how it is, he teaches and is in charge of three sports rotations.”

My mind raced ahead. “Let’s go back to the day of the murder. You said the girls saw a lot of people. Any idea who?”

“We have the list of those who RSVP’d to come to the sports boosters’ meeting. I doubt it’s accurate. The girls gave us a few names. But we haven’t been able to interview anyone on our list.”

“Why not?”

“The school’s attorney stopped us. He’s throwing all sorts of motions at us…breach of privacy….” Detweiler sighed. “No one will confirm who was at the event.

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