The Head Table
The man at the head table who was at the mill that night was Deputy Chief Dennis Mazur. Frank Colangelo said his name quietly, and I looked across the Elks …
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The Clark Spring
What was up on the old Clark homeplace was water. A spring, cold and clear as glass, that came out of a crack in the rock at the head of …
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The man calling himself Mr. Hendricks was Raymond Kessler. I had not said his name aloud in twenty two years, and it came out of my mouth like something stuck …
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The number from the 1996 trial was answered by Loretta Pace, and she was not gone at all. She was seventy nine years old, a retired schoolteacher living in a …
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The three words in the memo line were Farmhouse content fee. I read them aloud in my kitchen on Christmas morning, in my robe, with the mug of Glenn in …
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The name on the paper inside the steel box was Theodore Brandt, the father of Chad. He had been my bookkeeper in 1987, a smiling man in a bow tie …
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What Lucius witnessed in 1971 was a registered letter. He was a young mail sorter that spring, filling in on a route he did not know, and on a Tuesday …
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What Bonnie Sue knew about Glenn was written on a single sheet of paper in the Buncombe County Register of Deeds, and she had known about it for three years. …
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The man who dug up the ammo can was Garrett Whitlock, the father of Kinsley. I knew his face the minute Deputy Ortiz showed me the picture from the yard …
The Ammo Can Deed Read MoreThe Boardwalk Photo
The woman on the boardwalk was Courtney Weems. I had delivered her myself on a hot night in August of 1994, at Southeast Health, and had put her in the …
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