CHAPTER 12Agents Henry and Gold passed their trip in troubled silence. They switched planes in Kansas City and arrived in Lubbock by eleven a.m., grabbed an awaiting rental car and drove twenty four miles to Geneva, arriving there just before noon.
Chief Wilcox informed Henry that he would not meet them at the police station, citing the "inappropriateness of the retired chief intruding on the new man's territory." A uniformed officer, whose behavior could best be described as perfunctory, presented the keys to the abandoned church. He gave them terse and, to Henry's later surprise, accurate directions.
"Chief Wilcox told me last night during my follow-up call that the congregation still owns this facility. They built a new church in a better neighborhood eight years ago, and had been try
