Chapter 100

As drunk as he was, Cst. Keith still had the presence of mind to tell Rawle not to write a story. But, he’d also beaten the crap out of him.
Rawle Powder knew he could not just sit on this information. Police had some persons-of-interest in the Lee homicides. It warranted a story.
He consciously, willfully, let his friendship with Cst. Keith, slide a little and called up the RCMP spokesman, Cst. Moss.
“-I know you have some persons-of-interest in the Lee case,” he said, without even saying hello. “Can you confirm the names I’ve been given?”
Cst. Moss refused to confirm that anyone, specifically, in the Missions family was a person-of-interest, on the record, but he gave Rawle enough indirect confirmation to write a story. He took pains to point out, for example, that police were actively looking to arrest Kurtis Dale Raymond Missions, 18, for breach-of-probation, and also Darlene Missions, 38, on an outstanding bench warrant.
Right before late deadline, Rawle filed a 12-incher, claiming that police had identified two ‘persons-of-interest’ in the case, according to two sources: Teenage South Mountain resident Kurtis Missions and his mother Darlene Missions.
Rawle’s hands were shaking as he filed the story. He brought up a secure website template called “the bridge,” filled in his password, byline and placeline and then pasted in the story and clicked FILE.
He knew Darlene and the Missions family would freak when they saw the story, but he was drunk enough that he felt no fear.
He even went into all the background, about Jack Lee’s firebombing story, and Darroll Missions.
Halifax apparently did some 11th hour chopping because, despite the fact that the story was filed late, in the morning it was crammed onto the front page.