Chapter 30 - RodeoDana
Mel’s second and third shift patrol units had been briefed to watch for outside the norm activity along Route 44. I had hesitated to do the brief but the department really did seem to have no involvement in shady dealings after the murder of Sheriff Carter.
Beginning at nightfall, Tim and I, a team leader from the Columbus office and Mel as an observer, were in a tactical van about a mile up Route 44, past the farm. We’d move in, along with other team members staged nearby, when our surveillance reported we should move. Mel would roll with the other three of us but she had agreed to stay behind in the van until the all clear sounded.
Mel had a radio to communicate with her patrol deputies. They were under radio silence in the area unless they saw something unusual
