money.'
'Eighteen thousand dollars,' Lyn said. 'We have a tape of them talking about shooting him and dumping him over a bridge. From what they saidm other people are dumped there, too.'
'I started out in Pittsburg,' the plainclothes cop said. 'The crooks out there used to talk about 'Taking somebody to the bridge', but nobody ever found out which bridge. Nobody that ever taked about it, that is.'
'It's on route ten,' Lyn told him. 'They said that.'
'I think I'd better take a look at this film of yours,' the man said. 'I'm Heinecker, State Police.' He held out his hand and shook with Lyn and Frank.
After looking at the filem, Lieutenant Heinecker put in a call to the local district attorney, advising hism to come to the police station right away. Then he called the State Police in the western part of the state and suggested they get divers into the water under the gridge.
The district attorney watched the film with total attentiveneess. After seeing it twice, he questioned Lyn for almost and hour about the events of the day she'd run away form home.
'We'll try them for raping and abusing you, and for kidnaping you,' he offered. 'But, you'll have to testify. If we ignore those carges, we still have enough to put them away for a ling time.'
Counting on his fingers, he listed the charges he was going to bring against Willie and Joyce. 'Two counts each, incest; two counts eact, sodomy; conspiracy to commit murder; conspiracy to imprison. That ought to net them about forty years in prison.'
'You are no going to charge them with murder?' Lyn asked, unalbe to believe it.
'That crime was allegedly committed in Pittsburg,' the DA reminded her. 'We will furnish the authorities there with a copy of this tape. But it'll be up to them to press the murder carge. And they may have a sticky problem there.
'The girl was fifteen when she helped her brother kill thatman. They may have to ry her under juvenile rules.'
'Don't worry about it,' Heinecker advised Lyn. 'When Louie diAllio hears about this, and he'll haear about it by the end of the day, I wouldn't bet that they'd live to stand trial. If the word got around that somebody ripped Louie off for that much money and got away with it, somebody else migh try it.'
Thirty minutes later, the DA had his warrants. 'Want to go along when we arrest them?' he asked Lyn and Frank, both of whom did.
Lyn would never forget the look on Willie's face when he woke up to find himself handcuffed and staring at her. 'What the hell?' he snarled. 'What the fucking shit is going on?'
You're under arrest,' the district attorney told him, giving him his rights and announcing the carges.
'You're fucking crazy,' Willie said. 'You can't make any of those charges stick.'
Lyn stepped up to the head of the bed and pulled out the microphone. 'Everything you said last night was recorded. Everything you did is down on video tape.'
'Willie, that mean they know about Charlie!' Joyce exlaimed.
'Will yoiu shut the fuck up?' Willie screamed at his sister. 'I swear to God you're a dumb fucking bitch.'
He was still cursing and scraming at Joyce when the two of them were led aaway. But fefore they left; Lyn got the keys to the new lock on the front door. 'I don't want them coming in here again, ' she explained.
'I doubt if they'll be able to make bail,' the DA said.
'Are you going to need us at the station today?' Frank asked.
The DA shook his head. 'We'll have your statements typed up and we'd appreciate it if you'd come in tomorrow morning and sign them.
