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Chapter 9 – An Unexpected Case...

Bug awoke to the sound of someone pounding on the door to Sandra's condo.

"POLICE, OPEN THE DOOR." said someone on the other side of the door.

It was three o'clock in the morning on a Saturday that Bug thought he could sleep in on. However he did not know what would possess the police to come banging on Sandra's door.

"MS. O'LEARY ARE YOU IN THERE?" asked the police.

Bug started to wonder what was going on as Sandra quickly got out of bed, put on a robe and rushed to the door. As she headed to the door she gave Bug a look of worriment not knowing what to expect. He watched as she opened the door, and saw someone familiar start to enter the apartment along with other members of the Boston Police Department.

Woody started questioning Sandra as they made their way to the sofa, she had a look of disbelief on her face and she motioned to Bug to come and sit down with her. Bug seemed a bit confused as Woody is a homicide detective and obviously he was questioning her about a murder. As he started to sit down Bug listened attentively to who this victim might be. When he heard mention of a Joe Hayward he could feel Sandra's hand tightly clasp around his.

"Now Sandra we have reason to believe that you are a suspect." said Woody calmly.

"Just because he was stabbed to death outside this building?" responded Sandra, with tears welling up in her eyes. Bug was moving to get up to get her a tissue but she held onto his hand tighter.

"Yes. Now I have to ask, were you in contact with Mr. Hayward at all this evening?"

"No. I had no idea that he was even in town."

"So you didn't watch the Bruins game tonight at all?"

"Not one minute."

Bug could not understand why the police would think that Sandra was a suspect. As far as he could tell, she didn't seem to have a grudge against her former long time boyfriend. Sure Bug saw himself as not the typical man that Sandra would go out with, he didn't know a lot about hockey and he didn't grow up on a farm. That shouldn't matter anyway, the fact of the matter was to clear her name, and he knew that she didn't do it because she was with him the entire time.

"I can't see how Sandra would do such a thing. She was with me the entire night." blurted Bug.

"But we don't know that for sure." replied Woody.

"Don't know for sure?" questioned Sandra.

"That's right, we don't know for sure if it could have been you. Oh and Bug I'm going to ask Dr. Macy that you not be anywhere around this case due to conflict of interest." explained Woody, "For right now I'm going to leave. Oh and Sandra I would get a lawyer if I were you."

"I don't need one, because I'm innocent and you know it too." replied Sandra.

The next day when Bug went into work at the Medical Examiner's office he found out that Nigel and Jordan were the ones assigned to the case. He was content with Dr. Macy's decision to have them work on the case since he trusted those two the most.

"Well Buggles, off the record it seems to us both that your bed bunny didn't kill this bloke." explained Nigel, "unless she's six-foot-three."

"She didn't look that tall to me." chimed in Jordan, "Nige and I have concluded that the angle of attack and the force used in the attack, it couldn't have been a woman, at least not your woman. Now remember this is all off the record."

"You bet I'll remember." replied Bug with a big grin.