The afternoon was, thankfully, uneventful. Santiago got everyone’s statements, wrote up his report, and then invited the local reporter to come over and get an exclusive about Leo Farrow’s death. He was forthright with the facts about Farrow’s behavior, but he also didn’t disparage the dead. His most important intention in the interview was to make it clear that given that Eleanor Farrow had acted in self-defense, she would not, by today’s standards, be charged with murder.
The commonwealth’s attorney had already sent the reporter a written statement corroborating that fact and also establishing that the statute of limitations for unlawful disposal of a body – the crime which Ace and Melvin would have been charged with – was long past, so no charges would be pressed in the case of Leo Far
