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but I had still drunk more than I was used to
God when I think of how much alcohol I managed to drink in my ‘younger days’ compared to what I drink now & I would of laughed at the few glasses I have now & how it can get me happy, as such.
Guess I should be very thankful I’m still alive, & I am, very very grateful.
‘He has an alibi. I think he’s in the clear.
Yeah but the guy giving him an alibi has been accused of a few things himself, & by giving him the alibi our dear sheriff is giving himself one at the same time, & nobody is questioning it….
Heart attack. Passed away behind the wheel of his car on his way to church.
In my 20s when I was helping my Mum open her lunch bar, we heard a hell of a racket, like cars smashing into each other, which it turns out, was exactly what had happened.
Some poor guy had a heart attack driving down the road & kept hitting cars alongside the curbs. He didn’t seem to be able to stop & he had his young grandchild in the car, it was one long road, he reached the end, went straight through the traffic lights, over a grassy walkway towards a playing field, but there was a long creek just before it & he ended up stuck in there.
Nobody was hurt though, which was a miracle as it’s a busy area. This happening was just one of those things that stay with you.
Billy never was very strong, not like Lonny. He got bullied a lot in school. Lonny looked out for him, I think. Without Lonny beside him, Billy wasn’t the same kid. But I guess Billy wasn’t all bad for Lonny either. These things even out in the end, I suppose.’
Just like me & my now ex best friend, she took me under her wing, when I didn’t know how to fly, & she had a part in creating who I was, we were only 13yrs old when we met, your still becoming you at that age, everything spiraling around you, little bits clinging on, catching on you, shaping you before you even knew it was happening.
I don’t blame her for anything though, I was destined to become a major F up virtually before I was even out of the womb, & I lived up to my role majestically.
‘An accountant?’ said Midas. ‘Well, isn’t that something? I guess people do change, because Billy Lagenheimer never could add for shit.’
OMG I just had a thought… 2 people can’t keep a secret, but 1 can, so what if Lonny decided to get rid of the other 1/2 of the partnership, but also take Randall’s name/life or whatever ….?
Summer
That was what one of my ex’s wanted to call a child if he had a daughter, his last name was Rose & he thought Summer Rose sounded pretty, & it does, people would think it was fake it’s that perfect!
Mrs. Lagenheimer did not have a credit card, and her bank account appeared to be dormant, yet her tax obligations to the town were being met. I could find no death certificate on record for a Marybeth Wilson Lagenheimer.
Well if you’re going to switch identity’s you’d have to kill the mother, as she’d know you were not her son, right?
It seemed that Randall Haight’s mother was quite the recluse. Maybe she was living off the grid, holed up in Gorham with a generator, a shotgun, and a grudge against the United Nations.
But then again, maybe she’s D E A D….
As I drove west, a picture began to emerge.
I was first Ding ding Ding
But ‘cooze’? Would a woman like Mrs. Shaye use that word?
Maybe if she was trying to put on an affect…?…
what I assumed was Little Pond itself, which didn’t exceed the expectations raised by its name. It was about fifty feet in circumference, and coated with a pale scum.
& guess who probably went for one long long long last swim?…
I could see no cinder blocks, and there was no evidence of any kind of construction nearby, not even a barbecue pit.
That’s because they’re attached to a certain old lady who’s had her final swim….
‘What have you found?’ asked Carroll.
Not what, who….
It didn’t take us long, working together and using the rest of the rods from Carroll’s truck, to mark out the boundaries of what I believed was a grave.
Sod it, pun intended, I thought she was gonna be swimming with the fishies, which would kinda be apt with the sideline story of the mob & an accountant, but they’re separate storylines
Bodies, I thought, but I didn’t say that.
Ok that was not a me first, but if it’s bodies that means he did away with Mum & son, probably for the money as much as a new name etc, the further you mix the names & people the shorter the tail you leave for people to get hold of
You have to be careful what lies you tell. You have to be careful in case your lies are heard, and the gods of the underworld mock you by turning them to truths.
So true, I don’t lie often, but I can lie well, the trick is to keep it as close to the truth as you can, don’t muddy the waters as you’ll get confused & then you lose track of your lies, because the truth never changes, but the best bit to do, believe it yourself, you do that to even a small degree & it’s a game changer…
I guess I shouldn’t gloat about how well I can lie, but in my self defense I don’t do it often, I don’t do it for nasty or mean purposes, it’s generally little stuff…
I forget to do something & I’ll fib a reason as I don’t want to look bad,or make the person think I don’t care, or Mum asks me how many glasses of cider I drink a day & I’ll say just a couple of glasses, when some days it’s more, but, BUT I put massive chunks of ice in my glasses & refill them before they’re empty…
& REAL truth be told I don’t know how many, I have to gauge it by what’s left in the bottle, but if I try telling that to her, she automatically reads it the wrong way & it becomes an argument, so I fib & it’s probably around 3 glasses if you took away all the ice.
He sounds so young, Lonny thought. It’s like he froze mentally at fourteen, so that his body grew older while his consciousness stayed the same.
That’s what happens with people who’ve been released after so long in jail.
It also happens to people who’ve had traumatic childhoods in some way or another. I know my mentality is muddled up, part of me has stayed a young child & other versions of me have come along after other major changes, as the roadmap of my life is a bloody minefield, & then some!
That was when Lonny ran.
If he’s the one who has just had the massive beating, how come he’s capable of running while Charlie is just out to the count, as such, our boy needs to toughen up!!
Decomposition of the bodies in the cool, damp soil had been slowed by saponification.
Grave wax, the bodies fluids etc turning into soap.
Really funny as I’m just watching a German mini series on Netflix called Parfum & has saponification as part of it as they were trying to make scents, perfume, using this type of method, but also buried bodies where this naturally happened to them, causing the bodies to be near perfectly preserved
At that point, Schrock admitted that she had first had intercourse with Kurt Allan when she was fifteen.
Not a paedophile, but not too far off it either
High in the clear blue sky the last geese were heading south,
Bid I miss seeing the geese fly by where I lived last year, they move so well for such BIG birds! Plus staying as couples or trios, so one alone is never lonely, is so touching.
