CHAPTER THIRTEENIn the morning he started his search for Ben and Mae Bruninski, AKA Bob and Mae Brown. The first phase was a paper trace. With Aurora Delano’s assistance he looked for them through telephone books, old city directories, back issues of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Those were easy enough. Tax and voter registration roles were matters of public record. So were driver’s licenses.
Bank records were harder to come by, but Aurora had been running the local SPUDS operation long enough to have her contacts.
The results were either too good or too bad to be useful. Lindsey couldn’t decide which, but the effect was the same. Together, he and Aurora Delano turned up just three Bruninskis—Morris, Joseph, and Abraham.
Morris Bruninski was a retired florist in Metairie; he’d never b
