Chapter 6
Captain Sean Brennan has been the police captain of Seaside Oregon for the last fifteen years and it was his obligation to notify the next of kin when a love one was murdered. Despite the hundreds of notification Sean has preformed, he soon realized that notifying his best friend’s widow, would no doubt be the toughest murder notification he ever performed.
“How do I tell Deloris Spencer that the man she married, raised two kids with and shared her bed is not the man she thought he was?” Sean pondered to himself. As he drove to Deloris’s house.
Despair lurked in the Captain’s soul as he paused in front of Deloris Spencer’s house. The captain tried to comprehend how he was going to tell Deloris that Kevin had several aliases and was possibly murdered by a mysterious terrorist named Martinez.
A sharp pain lingered in Sean’s soul as decided to wait another day to tell Deloris the bad news. As he turned to leave, Deloris quickly opened the door and smothered him in her arms. Her vagrant stare replaced her usual happy smile. The anguish of her husband’s abrupt disappearance ravaged her once youthful face. Thought Deloris was only in her early sixties, the sudden disappearance and possible murder of her husband filled her with feeling of apathy and despair. Despite her age she still retained her long flowing crimson colored hair and bright emerald green eyes. Deloris’s heart was besieged with anguish over her husband’s sudden disappearance. Deloris’s once adorable face was now riddled with fear and anxiety. Her usual generous and loving persona was concealed behind a hostile and deceptive facade. The bright and cheerful exuberance that once lit up her emerald green eyes was now extinguished and replaced with dredge.
Captain Sean Brennan accepted Deloris’s tea as he took a seat near the kitchen table. The salty ocean breeze ensnared his distraught mind. His thoughts drifted back to the day he helped Kevin and Deloris move into their new house. Captain Brennan’s heart throbbed in torment and anguish at he pondered the thought of showing the DNA report to Deloris.
Deloris’s emerald green eyes quickly glanced over the DNA report. Anxiety inundated her face as she read the report for the third time. “What is going on here Sean?” she cried as she crushed the report in her hands.“Why would my husband have an alias name; Robert Banner? I don’t understand.”
The Captain felt reluctant to ask Deloris any question about her husbands disappearance. Sean held Deloris’s trembling hands, “Did you receive any threatening phone calls or see any strangers talking to Kevin the last time you saw him alive?”
Anger, resentment and confusion besieged Deloris as the captain berated her relentlessly. Deloris was quickly overcome by stress as she screamed, “I don’t know.” Tears of sorrow fill Deloris’s emerald green eyes as she collapsed on the kitchen table.