Wordle by Wordle: Day 91
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Wordle #1016 – TABOO
“The next day, you played up your role as the concerned wife. So distraught were you that you hired me, your PI pal, to help you find your missing husband. You even gave me a private performance of your hand-wringing over poor Roy.”
Come to think of it, though, it’s odd that she invited me over when she did, when Roy’s body was still languishing in the bathroom. Did she have so little faith in my ability to sniff out the truth? Was she rubbing it in my face? On some kind of power trip?
This question sits with me about as well as Chipotle at 3 a.m., but I put a pin in it for the moment.
“Sometime after I left that night, you and Austin hauled Roy’s body to Golden Gate Park and dumped it there.”
Bree flinches at my wording. She looks insulted, like I’ve asked her about her sex life in the middle of a garden party, or something equally taboo. But when she opens her mouth to protest, I override her.
“You assumed, correctly, that his body would be discovered soon after, which meant it wouldn’t be long before the police came knocking. So even though you had already cleaned up signs of the murder, you decided to take out the floor entirely, just to be sure. Better to lie about home renovations than to try to explain why luminol revealed blood stains.”
I feel like I should be pacing in front of a corkboard, pointing at bits of evidence connected by red string, but I settle for shaking off Bree’s grip on my arm.
“I didn’t realize you were listening to all those true crime podcasts for research,” I sneer. Sometimes I just can’t help myself.
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