The Morning After My Son’s Funeral, an Airport Worker Called and Said, “Your Son Checked In”

I am a better man than that. I am not.

I didn’t do it because David had asked me not to, and because he had been right about me, and because a man who has spent thirty-one years watching cases fall apart knows exactly how they fall apart.

They fall apart when the person who has the evidence tells the person who committed the crime that the evidence exists.continue reading …