Synopsis/Details
1974. Detective John "Hank" Hancock is days from retirement when he's called in for one last assignment — the reopening of a 32-year-old murder case. A young woman, strangled after closing up the diner where she worked. No weapon, no prints, no witnesses. The case went cold in 1944.
Now a dying witness in a hospice wants to talk. He saw something that night — a young man in a police uniform following the victim down a service road toward the trees. He never told anyone. Who was going to believe him? Accuse a cop?
Hank interviews the witness, visits the crime scene, talks to a neighbor who remembers a polite young officer who used to walk the victim to her car. He gathers the pieces. Then he sits down at his typewriter and writes the report.
Case closed.
