"So you're a homeless drifter who didn't know the victim and you fish but don't eat the fish and you happened to have fished up this person specifically even though no one else was around at the time, is that right?" The policeman who came to take my statement didn't exactly instill me with confidence in the investigation.
"Well when you put it like that."
"Mr. Lorentino you aren't exactly giving me a lot to go on here, other than you possibly killed this man and are now admitting to it."
"That's patently ridiculous, I mean look at the water damage to him, he's clearly been in the water a long time, and I just walked into this area within the last week. And if I did kill him I can set things on fire I would have just torched the body." Have I ever admitted I have a problem admitting things I shouldn't? Because I totally do.
"Don't leave town Mr. Lorentino." The policeman handed me his card and walked back to where the body was.
"Leave town? I'm not even in town? I don't even know where town is?" He didn't respond to me, and no one offered me a ride back to town, which meant I had to gather up my own things and find where town was (it was about a mile from where I was, but still I thought it was rude they told me not to leave but didn't at least offer to put me up or something?!) I had to check myself into a hotel (I went cheap I didn't exactly a bring a lot of money on my fishing trip).
The hotel was a one story building by the highway, it smelled like stale piss and failure. If there was ever a building that made you feel bad being near it, this was that building. The beds were barely beds. It was funny in a way that with all the modern conveniences this building was worse than several shittier inn's I'd be in hundreds of years prior. It was something I noted about the modern world, things got more complicated, but found all new ways to suck.
So it came as a bit of a surprise when I was sitting around in my crappy hotel room and three men in nice suits came calling. I didn't suspect they were police, I was just shocked that they had found me, and they wanted to talk. Well mostly talk, there was the threatening, but men in suits tend to do that, its part of their suit clad nature.
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