“The night before he would have been arrested, Sidney’s partner, Andrew McCall was found murdered.”
Sai stared around at the wreckage from the fire, the gutted rooms, the shattered foundation slab, the black pit lying open and revealed just a few feet away.
“He was found murdered,” he continued, “in this house.”
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Later, after most of the official presence had departed, and he was alone with two men from the coroner’s office and the recovered bones, Edgar Sai stared down at the remains of Bryan Sidney, hidden for over two decades in a silent sarcophagus of cold concrete.
“If only,” he muttered, “if only these walls could talk…”
From the Tamarind Valley Times, 12 June, 2012
NEIGHBORHOOD PARK ANNOUNCED
The Tamarind Valley Planning Commission publicly announced today the planned construction of a small neighborhood park in the Charter Oaks Subdivision.
The property, which has stood vacant since September of 2010, defaulted to the city after a legal contest in which the previous owners relinquished all claims of ownership.
In an arrangement with the family, the new park will be named the Willard and Samuel Huntley Memorial Park, after Willard Huntley, a valley resident who perished in the fire that consumed the home during a small earthquake that rattled the valley on August 29, 2010. A freak gas-line fire lead to Huntley’s death. The remainder of the family survived.
A month earlier, Huntley’s 2? year old son Samuel died suddenly of a SIDS-like event.
The Planning Commission intends to dedicate the park on August 29 of this year, in memory of…