Where in the World is Willard Kraft Part 3
Zelda sat in a chair in the interegation room as two officers paced in circles around her. She had been there an hour already and there was still no sign of her sister. She didn't know how much longer she could stand this.
"You know, we found your fingerprints in Willard's car. Why don't you tell us what you did with the body and make things easier on yourself?" the first officer said.
"I don't know! I didn't do anything to Willard! I loved him!! Why are you here anyway? He could be out there hurt somewhere! Why aren't you looking for him?!" Zelda cried.
"You loved him after you found out he was cheating on you? Didn't that make you angry?" the other officer said.
"Yes, but...."
"What did you do with the body? Make things easy on yourself. If you confess now, you might be able to get off with manslaughter instead of murder one."
"I didn't hurt Willard! Yes, I was upset when you claimed he was seeing someone else! Wouldn't anyone be? I don't believe it, though! Willard loved me! He would never do something like that! Someone must have misunderstood things!"
"I don't think so, sweetie. So, you're going to insist on making this hard on yourself?"
"YES!~ I'm innocent! Why are you doing this? Willard might be lying hurt in a ditch somewhere! Maybe he was carjacked or something. Why aren't you out there looking for him?"
"We will look as soon as you tell us where we should be looking." the first officer said. "Do you know how hard it is on families not to have closure? Do you want to put Willard's family through that suffering? Why don't you just tell us where the body is?"
"I don't know! Why are you doing this? I've never been in any trouble. I don't even make a right turn on red!"
"What about this charge for making threatening phonecalls to your neighbor and breaking his windows with water balloons?"
"That wasn't me! I was asleep! That was the cat!"
"So you're planning an insanity defense then?"
"I'm not insane! I'm a scientist!"
"Why don't you tell that to the judge? If you'll just go with officer Johnson?"
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"I never knew there were so many bad neighborhoods in this town," Hilda muttered to Salem as she came into the police station.
"I thought that prostitute was going to try to make me into a boa!" Salem sobbed.
"Suussshhhh!" Hilda muttered as she hurried over to the desk. "I'm looking for Zelda Spellman."
"Hilda!" Zelda cried as she was led in.
"Zelda? What have they done to you?" Hilda cried as she ran over. Her sister was clad in a bright orange jumpsuit and there was black ink on her fingers.
"Ma'am. Please step away from the prisoner," the officer said as he pushed Hilda back.
"Zelda, don't worry! I'll get you out of this! Where are you taking her?" Hilda said as she turned back to the desk again.
"She's going to holding until the bail hearing."
"Bail hearing? And where will that be? And about how much will it be? I hope we have enough in the bank to cover it!"
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"In here." the officer said as he led Zelda to a cell and pushed her in.
"What are you in for, honey?" a hooker clad in a skimpy black dress and about a ton of makeup said as she strolled over to Zelda. "Were you turning a trick?"
"What? No! I'm a scientist!" Zelda cried.
"Sure you are, and Molly over there is the queen of Spain. I suppose you might have some appeal for men who like older women but don't you think you might be getting a bit too old for this business?"
"Hilda, help me!" Zelda sobbed as she collapsed onto a bench to wait for the next horrible thing to occur.
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"Excuse me." Hilda said as she tried to push her way to the front of the courtroom. "Sister of the accused murderer coming through. Step aside!"
"Oh, we missed the first part!" Salem muttered as Hilda finally found a seat and dropped into it.
"In light of the henious nature of the crime, we ask for a substantial bail to be set."
"Henious nature of the crime?" Hilda said. "Anyone who kills Willard Kraft should get a medal."
"Agreed. Bail is set in the amount of five million dollars. Next case." the judge said.
"Five million dollars? We don't have five million dollars! I don't think we even have five dollars!" Hilda cried.
"I still think you made a mistake somewhere when you looked at that checkbook." Salem said.
"Zelly?" Hilda said as she hurried up to her sister as the officers started to lead her away. "Don't worry! I'll get you out of this! I'll bring you a cake with a file in it!"
"Ma'am, please get out of our way." the officer said.
"This is terrible! Come on, Salem. Let's get home. I need to call Ted and see if Gail's available to defend Zelda. Come to think about it, I wonder if he might have a few million laying around that we could borrow?"