Queen of Murder by Edale Lane

Author:Edale Lane [Lane, Edale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

Jenna and Owens sat across the table from a scraggly-looking man about Owens’ height and forty pounds lighter, his long, brown hair and beard streaked with gray. What appeared to be the same army-olive button-up shirt from last night flapped open over a white T and holey jeans. He smelled of cigar smoke and beer as his beady eyes bore into Jenna’s with a look of hatred.

“Woman cop,” he sneered. “Figures.”

“You better watch your mouth, boy!” Owens bellowed, despite the suspect being seven or eight years older than he was. “You will address your complaints to me, Detective Owens, and give Lieutenant Ferrari the respect she’s earned.”

“Why are y’all draggin’ me in here?” he yelled back, throwing a tanned, spotted hand into the air. “Fundamentally, I support the police, but something is backwards here. Why aren’t you harassin’ those perverts and chasin’ them out of town instead of hasslin’ me? They’re the ones causin’ the trouble.”

“And you are the one who refused to supply your fingerprints or DNA last night,” Owens countered. “Are you trying to impede our investigation?”

“So, there’s one less queer on this earth,” Crowder spat out in derision as if he was talking about an exterminated cockroach. “Why are you botherin’? Why aren’t you investigatin’ their underground child slave ring? Why aren’t you questionin’ them about the missin’ kids?”

Jenna was confused. She had her finger on the pulse of every crime in the county, not just downtown Roanoke. “What child slave ring, Mr. Crowder? What missing kids?”

He turned an incredulous gaze to her. “Don’t you ever listen to the news? Those faggots and drag queens are using a local hair salon to smuggle kidnapped children off to their secret ranch where they sell them to other pervs so they can use ‘em for disgustin’ things. They’re all child molesters and they’re gettin’ away with it.”

Besides the fact there had been no reports filed for missing children in months and the idea of a secret drag queen ranch was absurd, nothing of the sort had been reported on the news.

“Mr. Crowder, I’m the head of criminal investigations, and we have had no reports of missing children or kidnappings, and almost all the contestants in the drag show are from out of town. There’s been no such reports on the news. Where are you getting this information?”

“Oh, well, you must just listen to the major networks,” he replied, his dark eyes taking on a conspiratorial quality. “The liberal media is corrupt and can’t be trusted. They only tell you what they want you to hear. But if you tune into talk radio and the Freedom podcasts, you’ll hear the truth of what’s goin’ on. Drag is all just a front for an organized crime syndicate run by Bill Gates. He’s holdin’ thousands of children in his basement and who knows what he does with ‘em.”

Nuts! The guy is completely off his rocker.

“We brought you here to talk about murder, Mr. Crowder,” Owens interrupted, “not crazy conspiracy theories.”

Colvin leaned forward, his features hardening with malice.

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