Sarah's Murder

By Wendy Elmer

This is a fictional novel about a young girl's untimely demise. Did the Beagle dog sniff the evidence and pick the wrong twin? Above all where was this mysterious twin all along? Did somebody watch him take the fall for a crime he didn't commit? Will the main character pay the ultimate price for a terrible crime or will the twin step up to the plate and start explaining?

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 10, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456712198

Wendy Elmer

Wendy was born in Manhattan and attended Corpus Christi School. She also attended Mother Cabrini High School, closing in June of 2014.

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Chapter 1

Sarah was an emotionally disturbed ten year old girl who lived in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her father Ronald had to prod her awake on that fateful morning. She was always a heavy sleeper. Especially when she took two Prozacs for her clinical depression. The psychiatrist said she needed something to refocus her mind. After breakfast she trudged out of the house and was off to school. Little did her parents know that that would be the last time they would see her alive.

Chapter 2

An hour later she was found in the school playground hanging on the monkey bars from her scarf. At first it looked like an accidental strangulation. Detective Shapiro was the first to arrive on the scene and secure the area. The whole playground was roped off and was off limits to everyone. Sr. Angelus was notified and called Ronald and Eloise, Sarah’s parents. Luckily for them Sr. Angelus did the dirty job of positively identifying her. She wanted Sarah to be cut down and carted off before the rest of the children arrived.

Detective Shapiro said: Sr. Angelus, we need to interview everybody who knew Sarah beginning with her classmates.

Sr. Angelus said: Of course Detective. We are her to do whatever we can. I would like to wait until tomorrow so I can notify the parents that they will be interviewed by the police. If you do it today the parents might rip their kids out of school.

At the station house the detectives gathered in Detective Shapiro’s office which was the size of a closet. It had a door which he was able to keep closed. His desk was cluttered with paper work and a computer. He had to keep his coat on the back of a chair. He assigned this case to two of his best detectives, Detective Joseph Kennedy and Detective John Scanlon. The coroner’s autopsy report was due in first thing in the morning. Detective Shapiro saved interviewing the children for himself. He was good with kids and had a way of getting them to talk.

Chapter 3

The next morning Detective Shapiro rang the doorbell of Ronald and Eloise Dennelly.

Eloise greeted him with tears in her eyes and a look of total shell shock. He said: Good morning Eloise. I am so sorry about your loss. I wish we could have met under different circumstances. How is your husband holding up?

Ronald piped in How do you think I am?! My only daughter committed suicide.

Detective Shapiro said: Actually sir she did not commit suicide. The coroner’s report indicated she was strangled with a rope first. After which the scarf was wrapped around her neck to cover the rope burns. Whomever did this knew how to tie knots and do it quickly and effectively. By the way Sr. Angelus sent home a note from school to the parents stating that I will be interviewing them one by one. This appointment starts at 11:00in 45 minutes. Now I have 45 minutes to tackle the Las Vegas freeway and scoot across town. I almost forgot the reason I came over. What can you tell me about Sarah?

Ronald said: Sarah was a clinically depressed pre-pubescent girl who had one goal in mind. She wanted to kill her teacher. Her teacher refused to die and recovered from a gunshot would to the chest. What finally did her in was that she poured Clorox into her tea. Sarah was arrested and the judge decided not to send her to jail and to send her to a psychiatrist instead. The psychiatrist diagnosed her as being clinically depressed.

I will need the name of the psychiatrist." Detective Shapiro said.

Ronald said: The name is Dr. David Jacob Weinstock. His office is over in the medical building on 50th street and third avenue.

Detective Shapiro said he will have to interview him about Sarah. How long has she been seeing him?"

Ronald said About a year . She has gone off the deep end before. When she pulled the Clorox caper she finally succeeded in killing her teacher.

Detective Shapiro asked: What was the teacher’s name that she killed?

Ronald answered: Her name was Sr. Pat Brito. She was very abusive to the children in her class. She would come in and scream at everybody and call the kids stupid. She claimed she did it to force the kids to prove her wrong that they are not stupid. It never worked. All she accomplished was making the kids hate her. Sarah just couldn’t take it anymore. She also took the whole class as hostages and held a gun to Sr. Pat’s head. What she didn’t knew was that there was a camera hooked up to the classroom. She had adult supervision the whole time. A fellow student John ran down to the office and informed Sr. Angelus of the incident. With his help she managed to turn the camera on and watched the whole incident from her office. All the children knew where the camera was and just went with the flow. Sarah was in charge. Then I walked into the room and supervised the whole ordeal.

Detective Shapiro said: What was her reaction when you walked into the room?

Ronald said: She didn’t care if I stayed or left. He beef wasn’t with me. I don’t mean to be rude, detective, but is this going to take much longer? We do have to make funeral arrangements.

Detective Shapiro said: I think we are finished here. I will come back sometime in the future during our investigation. The funeral home can pick up Sarah’s body from St. Matthew’s Hospital morgue. What funeral home will you be using?

Ronald said: We will be using St. Mark’s funeral home. The funeral will be in St. Mark’s Catholic Church. The pastor Father Raaser will be saying the Mass. High Mass at that. That will probably take place on Friday at 10:00 in the morning. This is of course contingent upon the schedule of the pastor and the church’s schedule.

Chapter 4

The next morning at 9:00 Detective Shapiro had an appointment with Dr. Weinstock. His office was in an unremarkable white box of a building. It had no attractiveness about it from the outside. It was easy to miss if you didn’t know it was there. He took the elevator up to the third floor. It was suite 306. The elevator was a slow dinosaur of a box that whined all the way up. He decided to take the stairs on the way down.

Dr. Weinstock’s office itself looked like Disneyland. It had dolls, a drawing board, a GIJOE doll, and crayons and paper all within children’s reach. Detective Shapiro asked him about that. He said as a child psychologist he uses play therapy. Dr. Weinstock has the job of figuring out what the patients are really saying through play. Dr. Weinstock and Detective Shapiro both had a cup of steaming hot coffee and cookies before the pleasantries were out of the way.

Detective Shapiro opened up with a word of thanks for his time. He asked: What can you tell me about Sarah?

Dr. Weinstock’s answer came as no surprise. He declared he would be violating doctor patient confidentiality laws by revealing anything Sarah said or did in therapy. Detective