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     Sheriff Donnelly sat in his office looking over Ginger's file. The way it had happened was, her husband had left her and moved in with his girlfriend. She showed up drunk to the new address brandishing a firearm and told him she was going to kill herself. By the time a Sheriff's Deputy arrived, she'd given up and was on the ground in tears. She was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and public intoxication.
     The Sheriff and Myra had prayed a lot for her, but she descended further into alcoholic madness before she came along the ministry of Ben Damand, and she became reborn. Since then, she'd been a good citizen, kept out of trouble, but something told the Sheriff that the wheels had really never stopped turning for her. She had just, adjusted the target of her almost limitless rage on other things.
     And then there was the reverend himself to consider, no stranger to trouble. He'd been arrested no fewer than five times in the last few years, usually on trespass charges related to practices which performed abortions in the county. He had, or at least publicly showed to have, very little respect for authority other than his own.
     Now, he didn't believe either on of them or even both of them together was capable of a criminal conspiracy of this magnitude, but they were both guilty of crimes of moral turpitude, and the sad thing was, people capable of crime are really one and the same. Big crimes, small crimes, criminals were criminals. All people are going to go through challenges in life. Most people go through those challenges without committing crimes. Some do. The people that do are liable to blame the challenges, but the truth is, their personality either forbade or accepted their criminal conduct as a tool to get them what they wanted.
     From the outside, the Sheriff couldn't say what it was that the two of them had done, but it was clear that they were capable of crime; were in fact criminals. The question was how far did their criminality allow them to veer into deviant behavior?
     He'd have to pay them another visit on the idea that he needed more background information on the killers. This time, though, he was going to lay it all out there rather than wait to find out what had been going on behind closed doors.