“What? That he was a gambler or that this was a drug-related homicide?”
“Who said anything about drugs?” Ron’s attention snapped back to his non-interview with Janelle Austin.
“So the murder is not drug-related? Just a gambling debt or is there a significant public safety element here? I mean, he was found in a residential laneway.”
“I don’t think there’s any real public safety concern.”
“So this was targeted.”
“I really can’t say.”
“Just to get up to speed here: A one-legged man was murdered somewhere else, dumped in a residential laneway, and then…?” Janelle was determined to walk out of this station with something for her two-minute spot on the 7 a.m. news. She reminded herself that she refused to stand out in the pouring rain for most of the night and then drag her tired ass out
