Second Glance (2003)
“Az pressed the small wad of gauze to the spot on his arm where blood had just been drawn and looked calmly at the detective sitting across from him in the examination room.
Eli didn’t even blink. “The evidence doesn’t suggest that.”
“Far as I know, there’s still a warrant out for me.”
Ross put down the tongue depressor that he’d dressed with a cotton ball hairdo, a makeshift puppet. After confessing his identity, Az had agreed to meet with Eli. Ross half expected him to skip town again—but he’d... been waiting on the steps of the police station when Ross had arrived. He’d allowed Eli to fingerprint him, and even Ross could see those telltale arches, the same ones that had been on Gray Wolf’s fingerprint card from the State Prison. And when Eli had gone one step further and asked Az for a blood sample for DNA typing, the old man was the one who suggested they do it right away.
But why confess after seventy years?
“I killed her,” Az repeated. “I found a girl who grew up like royalty, and explained she wasn’t a princess after all.MoreLess
Eli didn’t even blink. “The evidence doesn’t suggest that.”
“Far as I know, there’s still a warrant out for me.”
Ross put down the tongue depressor that he’d dressed with a cotton ball hairdo, a makeshift puppet. After confessing his identity, Az had agreed to meet with Eli. Ross half expected him to skip town again—but he’d... been waiting on the steps of the police station when Ross had arrived. He’d allowed Eli to fingerprint him, and even Ross could see those telltale arches, the same ones that had been on Gray Wolf’s fingerprint card from the State Prison. And when Eli had gone one step further and asked Az for a blood sample for DNA typing, the old man was the one who suggested they do it right away.
But why confess after seventy years?
“I killed her,” Az repeated. “I found a girl who grew up like royalty, and explained she wasn’t a princess after all.MoreLess
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