“Yeah. I don’t know who tries my patience more, Childress or that Lizzie French. You know I ran into her a little while ago. She was talking to some of the other members from the Historical Society about drafting some kind of proclamation on morality or some such nonsense and bringing it before the townspeople. Says she’s tired of so much “loose morality and heathenism” in the country and that Trinity’s Land End should try to set an example to the world. The heathenism part I think she said explicitly for my effect. Anyway, we just looked at each other like she was from Venus and I was from Mars and that was that. I swear that woman will not be satisfied until the “Republic of Gilead” is finally established, and we can do away with the Constitution and be ruled by Old Testament religious dogma. I’m sure of it.”
He chuckled.
“There’s a reference in there to something literary and profound but I’m afraid I have no idea.”
“Oh never mind me Detective, it’s just something out of a wonderful but frightening little book calledThe Handmaid’s Tale. It was one of the books Lizzie tried to have banned from the library last year and it happens to be my oldest girl’s favorite.”
“Banning books, now there’s a past time. I wonder what kind of far-reaching benefit does she imagine the adoption of her pointless proclamation would have? She can’t seriously believe the state legislature would give it any credence. Does she really believe the American government should be run in the fear of God, like a theocracy?” “Detective Litani, surely you’re not asking for me to explain logic when it comes to Lizzie French, are you?”
IN THIS EPISODE:
. . . While preparations are made for Victor Salley’s body to undergo a limited scope autopsy in honor of Jewish law, his wife and children disappear.
. . . On the day of the big heritage festival, the citizens of Trinity’s Land End come out to celebrate, with the thought of two dead bodies all within a week seemingly out of their minds.
. . . Mama Loas holds an alternative celebration of Founder’s Day, honoring the history of black and Native Americans in the early settler colonies.
. . . Christian fundamentalist Lizzie French introduces a proclamation on moral righteousness, in hopes of setting an example for the inhabitants of the town to live by.
. . . The caretaker of the town’s orphanage has a inflammatory run-in with wealthy industrialist Norman A Childress III.
. . .While Sheriff Daniel recovers from a mild case of angina, he and Detective Litani feud over police affairs.
“What just Happened? ” brief bullet points for previous Chapter 4 overview: THE IDES OF SUMMER
While in Infinity City Detective Litani meets with the Hawaiin’s sister and is introduced to a mysterious network that uses a fake “Denny’s” location as a murder for hire joint
Sheriff Daniel continues to try to keep Victor Salley’s death under the radar until further notice
Tina Sycamore puts Deputy Carlisle in his place and prepares to make her move on an unsuspecting Detective Litani
Artist Billy Boy Arnoldperforms “Young And Evil” from the album BACK WHERE I BELONG. Podsafe music courtesy of the podshow’s Podsafe Music Network. Check it out atmusic.podshow.com
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Bio:Ethereal (pronounced E Theory ul) Part vigilante, part fallen angel, Ethereal takes you on a journey through light and dark, discovering that there is truth not in one or the, other, but in between.
Shownotes for Episode 7 Chapter 4:The Ides of Summer
Host and Author Denise Phoenix
. . . While in Infinity City Detective Litani meets with the Hawaiin’s sister and is introduced to a mysterious network that uses a fake “Denny’s” location as a murder for hire joint
. . . Sheriff Daniel continues to try to keep Victor Salley’s death under the radar until further notice
. . . . Tina Sycamore puts Deputy Carlisle in his place and prepares to make her move on an unsuspecting Detective Litani
“What just Happened? ” brief bullet points for previous Chapter 3 overview: THE JANUS RIVER
. . . Detective Litani finds himself at odds with the medical examiner, who had initially chosen to leave out a supplemental part of the autopsy report that revealed delicate information about Patty Lowell
. . . Detective Litani heads down to the Janus River to collect samples of blue-green alga discovered in a liquefied form in Patty Lowell’s body
. . . Detective Litani discovers Victor Salley’s body floating in the Janus River
. . . The man who murdered Victor Salley is murdered when he meets up with the mysterious boss who contracted his services
. . . Young Tina Sycamore snoops around the case, much to the dismay of Detective Litani
. . . Detective Litani finds himself at odds with the medical examiner, who had initially chosen to leave out a supplemental part of the autopsy report that revealed delicate information about Patty Lowell
. . . Detective Litani heads down to the Janus River to collect samples of blue-green alga discovered in a liquefied form in Patty Lowell’s body
. . . Detective Litani discovers Victor Salley’s body floating in the Janus River
. . . The man who murdered Victor Salley is murdered when he meets up with the mysterious boss who contracted his services
. . . Young Tina Sycamore snoops around the case, much to the dismay of Detective Litani
“What just Happened? ” brief bullet points for previous Chapter 2 overview:THE PURITAN LEGACY
Detective Litani questions the librarian Lizzie French about the murdered victim Patty Lowell and receives a sermon on morality and Calvinist theology for his efforts.
Detective Litani learns that as a teenager Patty Lowell once worked for industrialist and venture capitalist Norman Childress III.
While plundering the water fountain for pocket change the town’s drunk Victor Salley, is murdered
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Shownotes for Episode 5 Chapter 2:The Puritan Legacy
Host and Author Denise Phoenix
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. . .Detective Litani visits the towns ultraconservative librarian to follow up on a lead into the murder of Patty Lowell
. . .Meanwhile Victor Salley, the town’s drunk,is murdered while looting the change in the town’s historic water fountain before he can reveal his secrets about Patty Lowell’s connection to the mysterious venture capitalist Childress
“What just Happened? ” brief bullet points for previous Chapter 1 overview: THE BODY
A naked mutilated body is discovered in a field in the small town of Trinity’s Land End. It is later revealed to be the identity of Patty Lowell. The townsfolk all know Patty Lowell to have been a wayward young girl born to a Gypsy mother and an unknown Caucasian father.
Detective Litani, the investigator at the scene of the crime is a Baltimore transplant who happens to be in town under dubious circumstances. Due to political shenanigans outside of his control he is now stationed in the Sheriff’s department under the new “Special Section’s Unit”. We learn briefly that this unusual assignment has not endeared him with the town’s Sheriff.
With the medical examiner absent from the crime scene, Detective Litani struggles to preserve the crime scene and stave off a bevy of questions from some of the town’s citizens who have surrounded the body.
Back at the Sheriff’s department Detective Litani peruses through some of the criminal files and discovers an entire section devoted to some of the Gypsy caravans that have come through town during past summers. One of the files, or rap sheet, is devoted to a Gypsy woman named Moravia Lowell and Detective Litani finds a picture in which the woman appears to be pregnant.
Shortly afterwards, Detective Litani shows up at the town’s orphanage, the murdered victim Patty’s Lowell’s childhood residence. There he meets the caretaker of the orphanage, Rebecca Jamison, who had a special friendship with Patty Lowell when they were children while her mother ran the orphanage over ten years ago. He questions Rebecca about Patty Lowell’s reappearance in Trinity’s Land End months ago prior to death. Most importantly, he presents her with the picture of the Gypsy woman from the police files that he believes to be Patty Lowell’s mother but is unable to get her to confirm his suspicions. What he does learn is that Patty Lowell ran away from the orphanage at sixteen years old and he sees this incident from her childhood as possibly the first clue into the investigation of her murder.
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. . . introduction into the investigation of the murder of Patty Lowell, a former Gypsy orphan runaway with an auspicious past connected to the townspeople of Trinity’s Land End . . .
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