Chapter Twenty-Three
Chase couldn’t believe he was actually taking on Freda’s case. Even Freda, who’d wondered who in the hell he was—which had been her exact words when she was led into the visiting room to see him—hadn’t believed him until he told her that Billy Jo had shared her plight.
After a little digging and a chat with the DA, he’d learned that Freda had in fact witnessed the stabbing and murder of a retired teacher. The accused was currently incarcerated, awaiting trial, and the public defender who’d visited Freda once hadn’t pushed at all for her release.
Chase realized there were a number of factors, the first being that Freda couldn’t read English, the second that she was an undocumented immigrant. The chance she’d up and leave had been the only factor that had swayed the j
