Part Seven: The Name She Gave
The name Maggie gave the police — signed carefully, letter by letter in her fingerspelling, precise as she could make it — was Kevin Marsh.
Kevin Marsh was thirty-seven years old and had, until eighteen months ago, been a peripheral member of a motorcycle club called Iron Path — not affiliated with Demons MC, though operating in some of the same loosely overlapping geography of the city. He had been asked to leave Iron Path — the circumstances of which, the detective said, were being investigated as part of a separate matter. He had a prior for breaking and entering, a restraining order from a previous residence that had expired, and three different addresses in the past two years.
He was located three hours after Maggie identified him, in the parking lot of a convenience store four blocks from the grocery. He had a receipt in his jacket pocket with the grocery store’s name on it from that afternoon.
He was detained for questioning. The investigation that followed was, the detective told Theresa, likely to result in charges.
I know this because I gave a statement, and the detective was generous with what he could tell me before the details became official, and because I went home that night and could not sleep and found the local news coverage and read every word of it twice.
