So far we’ve seen a body hidden to avoid taxes, a body switched to fake a death. These fall into the fraud category of things. Now, we move into the capital crime category, that of murder. Now anytime that you have a murder, you have another problem, that being that the murderer cannot inherit. Thus murder brings with it other problems outside of the tax realm. Also, murders tend to bring out the better detectives, lab techs pay closer attention and its a whole different game.
IT COULD BE A MURDER
Jack Jenkins was a celebrity in the finest sense of the word. He was an All-American quarterback at Alabama. He had his car horn fixed to play the Alabama fight song and wore red where ever he went. After his career at Alabama ended he played pro football with Jacksonville, Tennessee and Philadelphia. He got paid well to be a back-up quarterback and used that money to invest in car dealerships in Alabama. His name was well known enough to bring lots of paying customers with the hope of seeing the Big Bomber as he was called by Montgomery sports writers.
Jack had one son, Jack Jenkins, Jr.. Junior ran the Jack Jenkins Springfield Ford. He had a gritty slick look that you would expect of a car dealer. Polyester suits, bright ties, cigarette stains on his hands, and binaca on his desk. Jack, Jr. started out as a mechanic at the Springfield dealership. He built the sales on making sure he knew his customers and their desires. He didn’t have to have many discount days because he kept his inventories stocked with the cars people wanted. As a result of his work, his dad became less and less involved with the business.
April, 2008,
Jack, Sr., looked like he had been hit by a runaway freight train. His wife of 30 years had died of brain cancer. Jack, Jr. as always, kept a level headed demeanor and showed no outward signs of grief. Jack, Sr. took it hard.
August 1, 2008.
“Son, I’ve gotta take a leave of absence, I just can’t focus. You’ve been running our Springfield store for quite awhile, I want you to manage all the stores.” Junior was thrilled. “Dad what kind of pay increase will I get?” His Dad answered, “Junior, you’re my son, and all of this will be yours some day, your salary is enough for you to have a very comfortable and very prosperous life. Let’s review this issue next spring and see where we are. I see dark days ahead for the auto industry.”
With that, Senior headed down to Mexico for a month at some villa he rented.