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"I suppose it is," Salisbury agreed "I wrote a piece about itthe Seven’s anniversary reunion"

"I’d like to read it"

"There’s nothing there that you can’t read here," he said, indicating the binder "Except my contention that the chief of police screwed up, and didn’t I catch hell for that"

"Chief?" I glanced atof tier took over"

"Danny Mallinger?"

"Danielle Know her?"

So that’s what the D stands for

"Wewas still chief when I wrote the story He wouldn’t answer any of my questions, wouldn’t even let me read the files Since the case was still active"--Salisbury quoted the air with both hands--"he said the public had no right to see the files Personally, I don’t know about that" Salisbury shrugged "He screwed up and I wrote that he screwed up and that alot me fired"

"What happened?"

"It’s a save the small town a black eye and the owner didn’t like it Siative stories about Victoria in it Last week a couple of kids got busted doing crystal raphs on page five"

"Tell ation"

"Elizabeth’s body was found in a ditch along County Road 13 Next to Milepost Three, they found her, not far from the Des Moines River It ithin the Victoria city li claimed jurisdiction Noro to the Nicholas County Sheriff’s Departive it up He was pretty adamant about it Why the county didn’t just shove hi s, collected a lot of favors Anyway, he ran the investigation and ca No one was arrested No leads were developed No one was even questioned hard as far as I could tell Eventually, he announced that thethrough"