More Than It Seems by David Archer

Author:David Archer [Archer, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-07T22:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

Sam and Franklin walked into the interrogation room together, sitting down across the table from Givens.

“Mr. Givens,” Sam began, “I want to talk to you about Martin Jensen. He said he came to counsel you and your wife after Kenny’s disappearance. Can you tell us more about that?”

Givens was looking down at the table, but then he raised his eyes up to meet Sam’s. “I already told you,” he said. “He just came to talk to us a few times. I didn’t really get involved with him very much, but my wife did. Brenda, she really needed—she needed hope, I guess. He kept telling her that he was praying for Kenny to come back, and I guess that was what she needed to hear.”

“But you did speak with him at times?”

Givens shrugged. “Yeah, I guess I did. I just didn’t have a lot of confidence in prayers to do any good. That was more down Brenda’s line, she was the one who always liked going to church.”

Sam raised an eyebrow. “Was she a member of Jensen’s church?”

“No, she wasn’t a member anywhere. She just liked to go sometimes. I think she went to his church a few times, especially after Kenny was gone. Yeah, I know she did, because she told me about one time when they asked her to come down front, and the whole church started praying for Kenny to come home.”

Sam nodded. “And there was never any time when you wondered if Jensen might have been involved?” Sam hit him with the question quickly, hoping the sudden redirection would throw him off guard.

Givens didn’t react. He simply shook his head as he had done before. “I don’t think so,” he said. “You know, Kenny just disappeared out of his room in the middle of night. There weren’t any kind of clues or anything, nobody had any idea who could have done it. The cops didn’t know, I certainly didn’t know; nobody even had a guess. I know they talked to everybody around here who had any kind of a record, but they said everyone had an alibi. One cop told me that other kids had been taken from other towns around the area, and they thought maybe it was the same guy, but nobody had any idea who he was or where to look.”

Sam decided to try another tack. “What about the detective who mentioned Jensen? Did you remember who it was?”

Givens’ face suddenly took on a guarded look, and Sam caught it when his eyes flicked up to Franklin for a split second before settling on the table again. “No,” he said. “That was so long ago, I… What would it matter, anyway? Obviously they never connected him to it, right?”

“But for a detective to ask about Jensen, something must’ve pointed him in that direction. I’d love to know what it was. I notice you looked at Detective Franklin just then; why was that?”

Givens looked up at him. “I don’t know,” he said. “He’s a detective, I guess maybe I was trying to see if it might’ve been him.

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