Edward Gorman - Cold Blue Midnight
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In Indiana the condemned die at midnight. Killers like Peter Tapley, a twisted man who lived in his mothers shadow and took his hatred out on trusting young women. Six years after Tapleys execution, his ex-wife Jill is trying to live down his crimes. But somewhere in the chilly night someone wont let her forget. Someone who still blames her for her husbands hideous deeds. Someone who plans to make her pay in blood.
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CHAPTER 47
A city councilman had paid an early visit to Lieutenant Sievers and was discussing something at length inside the Lieutenant's office.
Mitch could see the two men sitting on either side of the desk, talking. Every few minutes, the councilmanHank O'Mally was his namewould shove a document at the Lieutenant and then the Lieutenant would shove it right back.
'This could go on for a while,' one of the detectives said to Mitch. 'O'Mally's trying to get this constituent's charges dropped.'
'What'd he do?'
'Allegedly raped his fourteen-year-old babysitter. O'Mally comes up here every couple of days.' The detective winked at Mitch. 'The constituent must really have somethin' on O'Mally.'
Mitch smiled, nodded. This was a daily occurrence, somebody with power (real or imaginary) coming up here and trying, unsuccessfully, to get Lieutenant Sievers to drop some charge or other. Sievers was a great cop, liked and admired by all the men and women in the department. Wayne Sievers was middle-aged, a great racquetball player, and had lived for many years with a man who was obviously his lover. But that was nobody's business. Sievers didn't ask them about their sex-lives and they didn't ask him. He was a damned good cop and that was all that mattered.
Mitch watched the day begin as he sat nervously at his desk, waiting his chance with Sievers. Roll call over, the sixteen detectives filling the sixteen desks that were sprawled across the big dusty room now worked the phones, lining up witnesses and suspects to hit for information on their various cases.
O'Mally didn't wrap up for another twenty minutes.
When Lieutenant Sievers' door finally came open, O'Mally, a lean man in the expensive gray suit of a banker, was saying. 'He's done a lot for this community, Lieutenant and this girl well, she isn't exactly from a real good family.'
'That's supposed to convince me she didn't get raped, is itthat she isn't from a real good family?'
'No, but it does bring her motives into question.'
'Oh yeah?'
O'Mally sighed, a thirtyish man with the faint air of weariness that touches all public officials after a few years. 'I think so. Here's a girl who hasn't had much in life. She sees the nice home he lives in, the nice car he drives her home in and she gets resentful.'
'So she accuses him of rape?'
'That's how I see it.' O'Mally put out his hand. 'I hope you'll give it a little more thought.'
Lieutenant Sievers frowned. 'I just wish she'd gotten in here sooner. Too late for any kind of DNA evidence or anything like that.'
'I'm not even sure the DA'll want to press charges.'
'No?' Lieutenant Sievers said, irritated. 'You talk to him, did you?'
O'Mally's cheeks turned red. 'I just meant that he tends not to go ahead unless a case is very strong'
Lieutenant Sievers was still angry. 'You leave the DA to me, all right, O'Mally?'
'Yessir.'
'Now get the hell out of here.'
O'Mally looked as if he wanted to protest at the Lieutenant's manner but then he thought better of it. He nodded to the Lieutenant and left.
'Jerk,' Sievers said to O'Mally's back. He was talking to Mitch. 'O'Mally wants me to drop the charges because this guy's a good friend of the Cardinal's and used to be some kind of Catholic Man of the Year.'
Then Sievers stood back, waved Mitch into his office, and closed the door behind them.
'You want the bad news first?' he said as he walked around behind his desk and sat down again. His desk was always orderly. He had his secretary come in twice a day and haul out all papers that weren't absolutely necessary.
'You seem eager to give it to me.'
'I'm not in the business of painting pretty pictures, Mitch. You came up here to find out how the Eric Brooks case was doing so I'm going to tell you how it's doing.'
'Fair enough.'
'Your friend Jill Coffey is starting to look awfully good for this.'
Mitch began to say something but Sievers raised his hand. 'I like you, Mitch. Believe me, I don't take any pleasure in telling you that your friend may be involved in a murder.'
'She didn't kill him.'
Lieutenant Sievers sat back. Shook his head. 'Mitch, this is an ongoing homicide investigation. I don't have to tell you that I don't want you interfering. Anyway, I can't afford to spare youyou've got to stay on the Allbright case sixteen hours a day.'
'I'm not interfering, Lieutenant, I'm just trying to help you get to know Jill the same way I do.'
'And she couldn't possibly kill anybody?'
'Right. Except maybe in self-defense.'
'Remember the Sister Rosemary case?'
'Oh God, Lieutenant, you always roll that one out.'
'You remember it or not?'
'Yes, I remember the Sister Rosemary case.'
'A nun for thirty-five years. A damned good one, too. When she wasn't working with orphans, she was helping feed the homeless. Who could ask for a better human being than that?'
'I know the punchline, Lieutenant.'
But the Lieutenant would not be rushed through the story. 'But one day we find this eighteen-year-old kid dead in the alley behind the school where Sister Rosemary teaches. And we find out that Sister Rosemary had just had a terrible argument with this kid because he wouldn't marry the nice little Catholic girl he'd just knocked up. Hit over the head with a brick, from behind. Skull crushed. And I say to my detectivesgrown men who've had a lot of training and should be able to keep an open mind about thingsI say, "Men, I kind've like this nun for the killer." And you know what my detectives said to me?'
Mitch grumpily played along. 'They said that a sweet old nun couldn't possibly pick up a brick and crush somebody's skull like that.'
'That's exactly what they said. Oh, and they said one other thing, too. They said: "Lieutenant, you always pick the first suspect you find. That's your fatal flaw, Lieutenant, always picking the first suspect." And you know what I told them?'
'You told them about your conviction rate.'
'Exactly, Mitch. I told them about my conviction rate. And what is that rate?'
'Over eighty per cent.'
'Wrong. These days, it's over eighty-five.'
'She didn't do it, Lieutenant.'
'Weren't you working for me back in the days of Sister Rosemary?'
'You know I was.'
'And weren't you one of the detectives who insisted that a sweet little old nun like Sister Rosemary couldn't possibly have'
'She didn't do it, Lieutenant.'
'She certainly did, Mitch. In fact, she confessed.'
'Sister Rosemary confessed. Not Jill Coffey.'
'But Jill's going to confess, Mitch. Because I honestly believe that she's the killer.'
'There's no proof.'
Lieutenant Sievers opened the wide center drawer of his desk and took out three pages of a report. He dropped the report directly in front of Mitch.
'I need to go empty my bladder. You read through that while I'm gone.'
The Lieutenant was back in four minutes.
'You read it?' he said, sitting down again.
'Yes.'
'Would you say that was incriminatingher blood-soaked blouse and skirt found in a dumpster in the alley next to her place?'
'She didn't do it.'
'You ask me for evidence, I show you evidence, and all you can say is, "She didn't do it." Mitch, you've got to be a pro here. This is a murder investigation. We have to find out what happened and we can't let personal matters get in the way.'
The Lieutenant sat back, steepled his fingers. 'There's one more thing.'
'What?'
'The murder weapon.'
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