Chapter 28- Epilogue
DanaTuesday Evening, November 10th
Crane Family Farm
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“Your dad...Grandpa, for as little as I can remember him, wasn’t a killer,” Mel said to Faye. “None of the Laffertys at your house that Thanksgiving Day were involved in Mathises murder.”
I wasn’t so sure that was true. My gut told me Eunice Lafferty knew exactly who killed Mathis and may have even surreptitiously mopped some blood droppings off the hallway and dining room floors before the police arrived but I’d never be able to prove it. Horace Bailey had already shown me that he wasn’t about to give her up.
“What about Uncle Owen,” Faye asked. “Do you think Horace lured him to that cabin?”
Mel did a slow shrug and shook her head. “That, I can’t answer. Bailey claims to have an alibi for the time w
