Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

"I... I didn't. I didn't poison her!" Sophia was essentially being put on the spot.

Silas disregarded her denial. He continued in a deep, cold voice, "At that time, you panicked. You fled from the crime scene. But you forgot to take this medicine bottle with you.

"That year, the victim's death was determined to be a suicide. This made you let your guard down. You never went back to the scene to double-check.

"The Beckett family figured that it was bad luck that someone had died in that room. So, they ended up locking the room up. Unexpectedly, this unintentional decision has helped the police preserve the crime scene to this day.

"This medicine bottle used to contain the victim's depression medication. It was placed by her bedside. Its contents were swapped out. But there was some drug residue in the bottle.

"We lifted samples for testing and found that it wasn't fentanyl. It was cyanide."

Cyanide?

That was the most poisonous of all poisons! Coming into contact with it would be sufficient to cause death, let alone ingesting it.

The room was in an uproar.

Sophia was vicious indeed!

murderer, she was now able to understand how it felt to be wrongly accused. She

to

on the medicine bottle. If I have made false accusations, please explain why

pressure on her. "Let me recount the sequence of events in this crime. First, you entered Anne Bartley's room. Then, you came up with an excuse to get her to take her medication. This caused her to die

Hence, you threw Ms. Bartley from her balcony. You staged the scene as though she had committed suicide by leaping off the

shook her head vigorously. She was at her breaking

table and rose to his feet. "Let me remind you, Ms. Kirkman, that Ms. Bartley is now buried at East Side Lyon Cemetery. We can exhume

with only her skeletal remains remaining, we can conduct tests to ascertain whether her demise resulted from a

not true! I

metal railings. Her eyes were bloodshot. Like a mad woman, she shook

to hit me. So, I fought back! I ended up pushing her down by accident! I didn't poison

was finally let

falsely accused.

she never did if she was truly innocent and free of guilt. It wouldn't have mattered how others accused