Chapter 13: Preacher Finds a Corpse - Bonus Audiobook Episode GP708

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Episode GP708 Description

Evan returns to the sheriff's office to review the autopsy.

GP708 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Chapter 13 (33:26 minutes)

Thursday 11 am

Sheriff’s Office

Otis offered Evan a chair in the private office, closed the door, and handed him three documents — Edie’s signed power of attorney, the medical examiner’s report, and the sheriff’s case report.

Evan scanned the POA’s terms and conditions, which were concise but meticulously worded. Edie was giving him authority to “make decisions and execute agreements regarding all matters pertaining to my personal affairs, effective immediately and revocable forthwith on notice, whether oral or written.”

“Wow,” Evan said. “Isn’t this unusually broad? And open-ended?”

“On the face of it,” Otis surmised, “she’s a distressed widow. Can’t be bothered. Trusts you completely.”

“And?” Evan asked cautiously. “What’s her agenda, do you think?”

Otis leaned forward, lowered his voice, and said, “Could be she wants deniability. That is, if she decides to do something other folks might not approve of. Like maybe, try to stop the demolition?”

“I’d like nothing better, sheriff. But, turns out, it’s not up to her. Not at all.”

The sheriff looked genuinely surprised. “How’s that?”

“The Corps of Engineers is telling me it’s not her land. If she’s not the landowner, she has no standing to appeal. Because there was no assertion of eminent domain in the first place.”

“What?”

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