Chapter 23
From across the room, for the first time in many, many days, Pastor Evangeline Haberman actually smiled.
Roger’s death was ruled a suicide. Cassandra was cleared.
Featured in the July issue of Spa magazine, Paradiso continued to thrive, but the same wasn’t true of the Shemansky marriage.
To be fair to my son-in-law, he was as clueless, I believe, as the rest of us. It took an article in the Sunday supplement of the Philadelphia Inquirer to clear up some of the mystery surrounding the Barnhorst case. While remaining mute for the cops, Joanna Barnhorst had spilled all for a reporter who showed up at the federal prison, serious cash inducements in hand.
Dante’s college relationship with Joanna had been common knowledge. No one disagreed with that. Then Dante had ended the affa
