You Dirty Rat part ( 7 of 7)

The Police have found two female bodies in a shallow grave

in the woods behind Pepeto's Pub.

Both were fully clothed but their necks were broken. Nothing out of the unusual was done to the women and their purses were also tossed into the grave. The only strange thing was that a decomposed dog was with them in the grave.

The four friends immediately think of Robert and Mike as the culprits because they still have the rubbing of the map that Robert had made. They told Mario and Maria what had happened and wondered if they should go to the police. Maria said she had a friend in the typing pool and would take it to her to show her boss. Maria did as she said she would but went to the detective she knew instead of the “friend” in the typing pool and told him

the story along with all the other information she had gotten from her son, daughter and their friends. Detective Trotter and Maria had worked together long before she met and married Mario and Maria was a close friend to his wife.

Meanwhile Mario’s contacted his mafia friend Angelina and told her what had happened and asked her to let her husband know what was going on. Mario has been friends with Angelina and helped her by lending her money to help get her husband over to America before he was involved in the mafia.

Robert came to the door and rang the bell. When he saw in the guest book a message to call and make an appointment to see them. He got on the phone and called Mike.

"Say why did you rub out those two girls I told you they meant nothing to me ~ I was just using them you are in big trouble now" " The cops got your fingerprints!"

Later on in the week the police find Mike hanging in his garage with a note saying he had killed the 2 women for Robert his lover and that Robert had hired a bomb expert by the name of Tito to kill Virginia.

Tito was after Robert for the money he owed him. The police remembered a partial plan that Virginia & friends had thought up and they added to this plan.

The police kept Mike's self hanging out of the paper and knowing what Tito looked like found a ringer that looked like Tito. They added even more to this plan because they had gotten it from Maria who got it from Virginia. A large British style telephone booth was installed on the porch. A card on the door saying leave your messages here.

Robert is called to come to the house. He shows up and of course tries the phone booth door and when he does get it open inside is Mike dead in his face. Robert starts to yelp but the "ringer" Tito comes around the shadows and said: “ you did not pay me so I got Mike.”

Robert screamed and said: “ I will not pay you for killing her now.”

The police swarm the porch and hand cuff Robert & read him his rights then Virginia walks out and said "Hello rat fink husband I am here to look at you in your face and tell you I am not dead” ...

Robert goes into a rage crying

" but you are dead I had you killed."

the reply was "No you had Justine murdered."

The mafia got the real Tito but you will never see him.

The End