The Sentence Without a Cell
That's the thing about cold cases, folks. The body might be gone, but the family? They're doing life without parole.
They set a place at dinner still, though years have turned the chair to stone. The phone might ring. It never will. The case grows cold. They wait until.
Detectives moved on to newer dead, the file box gathering its dust. While they replay each word unsaid and wonder who they still can trust.
The calendar won't let them go— her birthday, Christmas, the last day they hold. They're prisoners of what they don't know, trapped in the space of in-between.
No grave to visit, no goodbye. Just questions that won't let them die, just a sentence without a cell.
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MJonCrime
My 30-year law enforcement career fuels my interest in true crime writing. My writing extends my investigative mindset, offers comprehensive case overviews, and invites you, my readers, to engage in pursuing truth and resolution.
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