Chapter 24
MelMy deputies Joe Treadway and Lomas Gates were heading up the an all-out manhunt for Chuck Knox. While I was still at the hospital, I managed to get a hold of his son in Cincinnati by phone. He said his dad was probably out bow hunting, especially if that smoker was going. He explained that he wouldn’t just disappear and leave that because it would need tending to over the days that it took to finish whatever meat he was smoking.
No sooner did I hang up with Charlie, who hated to be called Chuck Jr., than my assistant Holly called me to tell me Chuck Sr. Himself was standing at the SDO desk, asking to speak to me and only me.
“Tell the desk Sergeant to hold him for 10 minutes and then to send him up to her office. I’m en-route.”
“Maybe you better talk to the duty officer
