Free Terror on the Beach by Peggy Holloway Page B

they were going to make your life better, you would have let them tear down your wall of rocks right away and you could have gotten what you needed. But you have been hurt too badly in the past and you can’t trust them no matter how much they tell you they will help you.”
    “So, for an MPD, new personalities are their rocks as you talked about in the analogy. So what, you have to first get Sarah’s trust before she will drop her defenses?”
    “That’s exactly right. As far as I can tell she created this personality, Elizabeth, as an adult to help Sarah. But there’s one main thing that’s worrying me about this Twoon personality.” She stared off into the night like she was trying to decide how to say what she was going to say.
    “How long have you been a policeman? I understand you were on the police force in Atlanta before coming here? How long have you been a lawman all together?”
    “About fifteen years all together.”
    “How many serial killers have you come across during that time?”
    “Personally this was my first one but I’ve studied about them a lot.”
    “Isn’t it true that most all of them think they are invincible and will never get caught? In fact, from what I’ve read, don’t some of them try to taunt the law and challenge them to catch them if they can?”
    “Yeah, all that seems to be true. Sometimes they will send notes to the police giving them hints to make the game more challenging.”
     
     
     
    CHAPTER 19
    We had talked sitting on the porch until very late and Lily had kept the coffee coming. I thought I wouldn’t be able to sleep with the stress of the case plus all the coffee, but I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
    When I got to the office the next morning, Dr. Anna was already there. She was in the conference/lunchroom with Freddy. This was a room with tables and chairs and vending machines with awful coffee and junk food.
    They were eating takeout from TJs. “Come on over, Robert, I brought enough coffee and sausage biscuit for all three of us,” Dr. Anna said when she saw me. “I was just getting to know your deputy here. He is quite charming.”
    Freddy looked up at me and smiled. “What I’ve been telling her was in my report. Have you had a chance to read it yet, sheriff?”
    “Not yet, Freddy,” I said as I grabbed a biscuit and cup of coffee. We sat and talked small talk until we finished our breakfast.
    “I’m going to see Sarah,” I said as I stood up.
    “I’ll go with you, sheriff,” Dr Anna said and then she did something that surprised me. She turned to Freddy and said, “Will you join us, Freddy?”
    He looked uncomfortable and left abruptly saying he had a lot to do. When we started down the hall to the cell I looked at her and raised my eyebrows.
    “Okay, here’s what happened. When I got here this morning Beth was out. She told me her cousin, Bucky had been to see her and she was scared. When I asked her to describe him, she said he looked like Bucky.
    “I asked Freddy just now to join us in hopes we could bring Beth out and see if he is her cousin. It had to be a deputy that visited her, right?”
    This was very disturbing. It had to be a deputy. Freddy had been here only a few months, about the same amount of time the murders had been taking place. What did I know about Freddy?
    “What do you know about Freddy?” She asked as if she read my mind.
    “He’s only been with me for a few months. He came highly recommended. He had letters from the chief of police and the mayor in Augusta, Georgia. I needed a deputy real bad at the time and didn’t check out the letters. I know I should have.”
    Elizabeth was out when we got to the cell, “Where is my coffee? And when am I going to get my new room?”
    “As a matter of fact, Elizabeth”, Dr. Anna said, “we will be moving you today. I had to call and check on your room last night and it is available. You and I will be leaving for Florida tonight and get you checked in.