Susan smiled. Goodbye, last key bit of evidence. She had already had the laptop hard drive wiped clean at a local Apple store, and then had dumped it, wrapped in smelly garbage, in the Dade County landfill. The only other elements that might put Moth in that room with the killer were his DNA and Andy Candy. She had warned Moth about the first-“Don’t ever get arrested and put in some data bank”-and the second wasn’t likely to ever say an incriminating word.
She guessed she would see Moth later that night at Redeemer One, but she wouldn’t tell him anything about what she had done. Her sobriety was all he needed to know about. One hundred eighty-three days and counting, Susan proudly reminded herself.
John Katzenbach
John Katzenbach has been a criminal court reporter for The Miami Herald and Miami News and a featured writer for the Herald's Tropic magazine. He lives in western Massachusetts.
