Every House Has a Secret - 18

 

Friday morning Rand stopped by the house long enough to let Nick and his crew in so they could start to work on tearing out the kitchen cabinets and taking up the linoleum. Then he went to the Register's offices to finish his weekly column and turn it in. Once he had, he began searching the paper's archives for any possible stories on Dennis Hodges. He found one, written by a reporter who had retired two years previously. The headline on the story was 'When Good Cops Go Bad'.

 

"That sounds like something from a tabloid," Rand muttered as he began to read. Fifteen minutes later, he was on the phone with Brady.

 

"If this is our Dennis Hodges, he was a police officer accused of using undue force during an arrest. The victim was a man suspected of being involved in a burglary during which the wife of the home owner was beaten and raped."

 

"How much force?" Brady asked.

 

"The suspect ended up in the hospital with a concussion, broken bones, and a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He survived, Hodges career didn't. This happened in nineteen-sixty-nine." 

 

"Were there any other instances of his being violent during an arrest?"

 

"Not that the article mentioned."

 

"Okay. I'll do more research on him if you send me a copy of the article. It won't happen until after I get finished with what I'm doing at the moment."

 

"Which is?"

 

"Following a man who might be trying to pull an insurance scam."

 

"Lucky you. Not."

 

Brady sighed. "Not is right, but…"

 

"It helps our bottom line. Got it. Love you. Call if you find out anything."

 

"Will do. Love you, too."