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he scream of the steel blade cutting into the trailer’s aluminum siding bore a hole in one temple and right through the other. Orange sparks flared from the doorframe, mixing with a gentle snowfall that accumulated on the gravel driveway.
Cap leaned against his truck and watched as Benny and three volunteer firemen from Black Walnut and Wyalusing cut a section around the trailer door in order to remove Alice Hunsinger’s body from a place she had not left in a decade. Cap knew all the men well. They attended church most Sundays unless the Steelers game was on TV. Warren Abrams and Eddie Updegraff owned an insurance company in Wyalusing. They bickered like brothers almost all the time and had been known to come to blows on occasion. Maurice Slabicki worked the register at Bluhm’s Mini Ma
