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Voluntary Suspect. The curiosity gave way to horror and indignation 17 days later Cricket's bruised, partly clothed body had been found in a shallow grave on a mesa twelve miles from town. Happy Apodaca announced that she had been raped and murdered. No autopsy was held. Cricket was just sprinkled with lime and buried again. But Happy did take action-of a sort...
When the town began to resound with rumors that somebody was trying to cover up the crime, the sheriff secretly jailed a fellow who had been drinking with Cricket on the night of her disappearance. The man was one of his own friends, beefy, crop-haired Jerry Nuzum, a professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers. For three days no word of the arrest leaked...
...jail under what Happy called "voluntary arrest" because he had been told he would be charged with murder if he objected or tried to see a lawyer. But when Reporter Finley slipped into the jail and talked to Nuzum, he protested convincingly that he had nothing to do with Cricket's murder...
Apprehensions. Last week the state was shaking from the effects of the biggest political land mine which had blown up in years; the jury had indicted State Corporation Commission Chairman Dan Sedillo, one of the biggest shots in New Mexico's Democratic hierarchy. The charge: Sedillo had fed Cricket Coogler drinks and had "possessed her for evil purposes...
...grand jurors still hadn't found out who killed Cricket Coogler, but thousands of New Mexico's plain citizens thought they were doing better than the old vigilantes...