Rural Justice 3
Copyright© 2025 by A Bad Attitude
Chapter 2: The Search Begins
They arrived at the campsite and there was about 10 people standing around. Agent Goings took charge and introduced Ellie Mae as a Reserve Deputy who was a dog handler.
Ellie Mae asked what tent the boy was sleeping in and was told by a very distraught mother that it was the pup tent next to his parents’ big tent. “He wanted to sleep in his own tent,” she said as she started to cry.
Ellie Mae walked over to that small tent and crawled inside. In seconds she was back with a sleeping bag. She showed it to Skillet and he began to sniff.
“Find him boy.”
The dog immediately began to sniff the ground and soon let out a bawl and began to pull her towards the woods. He was howling like ... well like a bloodhound on a trail when he suddenly stopped and sniffed a place on the ground. Ellie Mae got on her knees and ran her fingers through the wet dirt, then raised them to her nose.
“He stopped here to pee,” she said then stood up.
Skillet was again bawling and going off in a different direction.
“The boy got up to pee, then got turned around and walked off away from camp. Skillet will find him.”
They followed Skillet for over an hour until they came to a cabin deep in the forest.
As Agent Goings swatted another mosquito trying to drain the last of his blood, he asked, “Who lives here?”
“No one,” replied one of the deputies.
“It’s a hunting cabin used by people who deer hunt these parts in the winter.”
The Sheriff, along with Agent Goings and a couple of others, walked up on the front porch and knocked on the door. A man opened the door and they stepped inside while Ellie Mae and another group circled the house. Skillet bawled again and led them into an old barn. There under a tarp, lay the boy’s body. He was naked and it was obvious to all who saw it, the boy had been sexually abused. The marks on his neck, along with the blood in his eyes showed that he was choked to death!
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