If families’ budgets fell short, Joe and Mickey stepped in, quietly paying for hot lunches, senior trips, new clothes. He did not step any farther into the bedroom, but as he stood in the doorway, he could tell that Mickey was dead. He told Wilie that he called her from his hotel room around 9 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 14, the night before her absence from school. On his way back to Elm Mott, Joe told Brennand, he stopped to get gas. Garry Lewellen, the special prosecutor hired by Charlie Blue, Mickey Bryan’s brother.

Source: New York Times May 23, 2018 08:02 UTC