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Both had been pled down to lesser charges. The red flag was that Sales had undergone treatment at the VA hospital for post-traumatic stress disorder. It wasn’t an uncommon thing for veterans, but Bolinger knew it wasn’t an uncommon thing for psychopathic killers, either. Bolinger lit a Winston of his own and looked candidly at Sales through the smoke. ” the sergeant asked. Sales jangled his chains and snorted disdainfully but sat down anyway on the cell’s concrete floor. Bolinger sat on the bench against the wall.
I thought they had everything, but I can’t find her gall bladder. ” Bolinger rubbed his eyes some more and wondered again at her macabre comment. Unsure of whether or not she was trying to be funny, he hadn’t reacted. Now he wondered if, instead of an oversight, there was some reason the gall bladder was missing. He’d never heard of anything like it, but he’d never seen a body like that, either, half choked to death and split open like a butchered cow. Bolinger shuddered at the thought. An image came screaming into the forefront of his mind.
Together they would go to the local dance hall on Friday and Saturday nights. She would sing with a band of old-timers and he would watch, drinking cold bottles of beer until the sound of her voice blended with the night in a perfect harmony of sight and sound. Everyone told her she could do much better than Sales, a half-breed veteran with a stale and tattered dream of going to college. But she loved him as much as he loved her, and he worked as hard as any man to make them a home. By day, he was a dependable contractor.