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This is my story which got published in Tryst anthology. I decided to republish it on Writco. so that everyone could read it😊
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Dirty dishes in the sink,
Waited as a witness,
To the motionless body on the floor. Nobody knew about George’s death until Tom George’s neighbor reported to police that a foul smell was coming from George’s house and no one was responding from the other side.
The police approached and they broke the door after sometime when no one answered. George’s dead body was found lying on the floor beside the sink. There were no bloodstains found. However, George’s body had turned blue & white foam was coming out of his mouth, which indicated that he was poisoned. But the main question was, Did George poisoned himself? Or someone just poisoned him & left no proof behind?.
The police sent the body for forensic tests and informed George’s family about his death. George had divorced a few months ago. George and Jenny had been a lovely couple but things weren’t right between them both for the past one year & they finally got divorced a few months ago. The custody of their two kids was in Jenny’s hand but they were allowed to stay with George, two days a week and the kids mostly spent their weekend at their dad’s place
Jenny seemed to be broken by the news of George’s death. It seemed like she wanted to cry but she held it back. In fact, all his near & dear ones family, friends seemed to be really sad by the news.
When all the forensic tests were over, George’s dead body was handed back to his family. Police got forensic reports after three days of his funeral. The reports revealed the poison used to kill George was boomslang venom but there were no snake bites anywhere in his whole body & nor the snake is found in California. Moreover, if George wanted to die he might have used poison from which he would die instantly and not a slow-acting poison like boomslang which would take 3-5 days to for a person to die
All the above evidence made police believe that this a murder case. The duty of resolving the case was given to detective Edward Johnson. He prepared a suspect list of all the people who could have possibly murdered George. According to Mr. Johnson the prime suspect was Jenny because she was not in good terms with George for the last one year.
So the detective went to Jenny’s house to interrogate her. She was frightened to see the police at her door at first, but she instantly invited them in when she got to...
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Dirty dishes in the sink,
Waited as a witness,
To the motionless body on the floor. Nobody knew about George’s death until Tom George’s neighbor reported to police that a foul smell was coming from George’s house and no one was responding from the other side.
The police approached and they broke the door after sometime when no one answered. George’s dead body was found lying on the floor beside the sink. There were no bloodstains found. However, George’s body had turned blue & white foam was coming out of his mouth, which indicated that he was poisoned. But the main question was, Did George poisoned himself? Or someone just poisoned him & left no proof behind?.
The police sent the body for forensic tests and informed George’s family about his death. George had divorced a few months ago. George and Jenny had been a lovely couple but things weren’t right between them both for the past one year & they finally got divorced a few months ago. The custody of their two kids was in Jenny’s hand but they were allowed to stay with George, two days a week and the kids mostly spent their weekend at their dad’s place
Jenny seemed to be broken by the news of George’s death. It seemed like she wanted to cry but she held it back. In fact, all his near & dear ones family, friends seemed to be really sad by the news.
When all the forensic tests were over, George’s dead body was handed back to his family. Police got forensic reports after three days of his funeral. The reports revealed the poison used to kill George was boomslang venom but there were no snake bites anywhere in his whole body & nor the snake is found in California. Moreover, if George wanted to die he might have used poison from which he would die instantly and not a slow-acting poison like boomslang which would take 3-5 days to for a person to die
All the above evidence made police believe that this a murder case. The duty of resolving the case was given to detective Edward Johnson. He prepared a suspect list of all the people who could have possibly murdered George. According to Mr. Johnson the prime suspect was Jenny because she was not in good terms with George for the last one year.
So the detective went to Jenny’s house to interrogate her. She was frightened to see the police at her door at first, but she instantly invited them in when she got to...
