I left my wife outside in the freezing cold because my sister yelled, “That woman is using you”; when I opened the balcony door I found a fingerprint, a cigarette butt and an unfinished letter, but what destroyed me the most was knowing who those $8,000 were really for.
The silence was worse than any scream. Owen arrived shortly after with two officers, and Gwen was taken in for questioning. She was not handcuffed, but she had the look of someone who had just understood that a poorly chosen word can turn into tragedy.
That same afternoon, the police arrested Paige Brewer at the factory where she worked. In continue reading …
