The Road to Maine is Bloody Part 11

When Ashley opened the book and looked down, she couldn’t believe what she was reading. It was an exact duplicate to what was in the letter. Ashley looked up, pools of tears in her deep blue eyes. “I don’t understand.” Stephen told her to keep reading and she read aloud from the bright white pages.

“Stephen asked her to come in and shut the door behind her, telling her he hadn’t seen her since she’d gone to live with her father and how sorry he was for her mother’s death. They entered the living room and Ashley sat down on the black leather sofa, handing him the book she’d found by her mother’s body.” Ashley’s heart began to pound and Stephen told her to skip to the next chapter.

“Stephen walked to the desk behind the sofa and pulled out the stack of letters, wrapped in a yellow ribbon. He handed them to the police officer standing there and said they were the letters the fan sent him and said he’d shown them to Ashley and thought this woman had something to do with her mother’s death.”

The policeman took the letters, taking out the very one that Ashley had read and frowned, putting it back in its envelope. He handed the letters to his partner and folded his hands, rocking back and forth on his heels and then stopped, pulling the black notebook from his back pocket. “Annie wasn’t murdered by her Mr. King. This woman that wrote you these letters was found dead just outside town last night. What’s more is that she had the same kind of wounds that Miss Annie had on her.”

Ashley looked up, her brow furrowed in puzzlement. “I see the similarities but what does that have to do with my Mother’s death, besides the threatening letters?”

Stephen reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out what looked like a folded newspaper clipping. He handed it to her. “Read this and you’ll know.”

“Late last night, Bangor Police were called to the outskirts of town on a 911 call to discover the state police talking to a tall blonde gentleman and next to him were the remains of a woman’s body. Upon interviewing the man, they told him he could go but to stay in town and began to examine the crime scene.”