Chapter 2
The park where the second murder occurred was known as Lemon Park. It had an official name, something entirely different, but the park was on Lemon Street and that was all anyone ever called it. Even the police department.
Edgar parked the Taurus in the lot and we took the first pathway at the entrance. Haydon Cliff City Park had been the location of the murder of the homeless man who’d been stabbed. That was pretty far from this one.
During the day many of the homeless that hung around Lemon Park could be found elsewhere, trying to panhandle outside stores and such. But there was a bit of a camp toward the back of the park. Generally the homeless there were left alone unless they caused trouble to citizens picnicking or running the park trail.
“There’s Betty,” Edgar said, po
