Peggy Holloway - Judith McCain 05 - Monroe Beach (13 page)

He bowed.
“Yes, madam.”

She closed the door and came back in, “Randy, honey, how did you escape?”

I spoke up, “Y’all don’t know what’s been going on do you?”

“We’ve been traveling for almost a year,” Mr. Edwards said.
“We got in late last night and tonight our friends gave us a surprise welcome home party. What’s been going on here?”

It was Wade who explained everything while they listened without comment.

At the end Mr. Edwards simply said, “Thank you for bringing back my boy.”

CHAPTER 29

We had left a happy family and I wanted to discuss it all with Wade while heading back to Monroe beach.

“So, from what was said, his parents thought they were putting him in the Pullen Institute to cure his luekodrema. Then he tells Randolph that his parents don’t want to see him. At the same time he tells the parents that his son has refused to see them.”

Wade
chewed the inside of his cheek. “Yeah, he must have pulled the same number on all the families. If it had been my kid I would have torn the place apart to see him. I was thinking about that poor overweight girl Randolph told us about. Her parents probably thought they were checking her into a fat clinic.”

We had supper at Sarah’s house that night and Robert cooked steaks on the grill.
Wade and Robert hung around the back yard drinking beer and talking cop talk while I helped Sarah in the kitchen with the salad and baked potatoes.

While we enjoyed the food at a picnic table in their yard, Robert caught us up on what was happening with Dr. Pullen.

“Apparently, he’s not even a real doctor. He never finished medical school. He went to four different medical schools and was kicked out of all of them.

“Simon has been on his computer and found out that Dr. Pullen, which is an alias by the way, has been arrested several times for assault and battery, rape, and stalking.
His first charge was while he was in undergraduate school, but the girl dropped the charges.

“He comes from an extremely wealthy family and Simon suspects the victims were all paid off.
He never served any jail time and then about ten years ago he dropped out of sight.”

“I would love to interview him,” I said, “Just to get some background on him.
I would love to know about his family of origin.”

“Oh no, you don’t,” Wade said as he pulled me against him.
“Are they going for the death penalty, Robert?”

“You bet they are.
All of those poor parents who thought their kids had run away from there and have been trying to find them and those who believed that their kids didn’t want to see them and some of them were dead. They must feel so guilty right about now.”

I still wanted to interview Dr. Pullen or whoever he was but I guess I would
n’t get to.

# # #

Dr. Pullen was executed by lethal injection only two months later.

Wade and I are still seeing each other and he’s still with HPD.
I’m still with the FBI and am learning more each day.

I take Judo and have started running with Wade who is an avid runner.
Julia did marry her professor and had a baby boy she named Ben. It brought tears to my eyes when she told me.

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About the author

After retiring from three major careers,
teaching high school math, exploring for oil and gas as a geophysicist in offshore Gulf of Mexico, and working as a counselor/psychotherapist, I decided I wanted to try my hand at writing. I had read one to two books a day for over forty years and decided to go for it. This is the fifth Judith McCain thriller. I hope you have enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Judith McCain thrillers:

Bl
ood on White Wicker

Portrait on Wicker

Terror on the Beach

Jupiter Returns

Monroe Beach

Mystery/Suspense:

Double Shock

Southern Greed

Time travel/Visionary fiction:

3037

Time and Time Again

Self Help

The Answers are within

My Memoirs
:

A Life of Confusion

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