Murder or Not?
By
Rebecka Vigus
Copyright 2019
All Rights Reserved.
Chapter 1
When the first letter arrived in her office
Sam Worth thought it was a joke. Still she called the chief of police and asked
him to come by. It didn’t take long before he showed up.
“What have you got for
me, Sam?” he asked coming through the door.
“I got a weird letter
today,” she replied. “I don’t know if it’s a joke or if I should take it
seriously?” She pulled a sheet of paper out of her desk.
The chief could see it
was already encased in plastic. “Did you dust for finger prints?”
“No, Dad. I slipped it
into this after I read it,” she answered. “Figured we have my prints on file
so, any others will be our suspect. I have the envelope in a separate piece of
plastic, although it will have the postman’s finger prints on it, too.”
“Let’s have a look.” He
reached for the letter to read it. “Who does this joker think he is?”
“Got me,” Sam replied.
“Says he’s been stumping you for years. What kind of open cases do you have?”
“Around here? You’ve got
to be kidding. Worst case we get is hauling in some drunk to sleep it off,” he
answered. “Wait, there was a hit and run two years ago. Just a broken leg, but
we never did find who did it. Do you think?”
“Couldn’t hurt to pull
the file and look at it again,” she suggested with a shrug.
“I’m going to take this
and get as much information as we can from it,” he told her.
“Meantime, I’m going to
check out everyone connected to the Bakersfield Estate,” Sam said. “I don’t
know much about them, except they have the mansion on Pine Ridge overlooking
the river.”
“Nice couple,” Dad
replied. “I think their kids are grown and moved away. Come every year for
Thanksgiving and stay through Christmas with the grandkids. There’s a gardener,
a cook, and possibly a maid.”
“I’ll let you know what I
find,” she told him.
He left and Sam sat at
her computer. She was an expert at data gathering. If anything suspicious was
to be found, she would find it.
Your
job is to:
1)
Start
a notebook
2)
Look
for clues in the message
3)
Make
your to-do list
4) Check FB page for additional information
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