Blood Will Tell
““We’re putting together a solid case against this person, including DNA evidence.” Meeker said the suspect was a male teenager, but he would not identify him further, saying he did not want to jeopardize the investigation.
A teenage boy, one whose DNA had been found on the dead girl. Kenny had no idea who it was or how it had happened. All he knew was that he himself was twenty years past being a teenager. And he had worn gloves that night.
The tight strings inside him loosened. The police knew nothing. Better than that, what they thought they knew was wrong.
Picking up his cup of coffee, Kenny went into the living room. He looked through a crack in the blinds at the vacant lot across the street. For years, he had ignored it, or tried to, while his mother complained it was bringing down their property value. Sometimes teenagers would hang out on the back side, smoking cigarettes or even marijuana. And during the summers, little kids would occasionally pick the blackberries from the th...orny bushes, their faces smeared with purple juice.MoreLess
A teenage boy, one whose DNA had been found on the dead girl. Kenny had no idea who it was or how it had happened. All he knew was that he himself was twenty years past being a teenager. And he had worn gloves that night.
The tight strings inside him loosened. The police knew nothing. Better than that, what they thought they knew was wrong.
Picking up his cup of coffee, Kenny went into the living room. He looked through a crack in the blinds at the vacant lot across the street. For years, he had ignored it, or tried to, while his mother complained it was bringing down their property value. Sometimes teenagers would hang out on the back side, smoking cigarettes or even marijuana. And during the summers, little kids would occasionally pick the blackberries from the th...orny bushes, their faces smeared with purple juice.MoreLess
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