Morton Higgins and Thomas Michaels to be questioned, regarding disappearance of Archie Klatos.
At face value, one wouldn't think Thomas Michaels to be a murderer.
Morton Higgins leaves more for debate.
The true nature of both will be revealed when they're questioned today by the Chagrin Falls police department, regarding the disappearance of Archie Klatos. One is his classmate, a thin and socially awkward 16 year old. The other seems a more obvious candidate, the grizzly owner of a gun shop in Hudson.
The revelation comes as an alarming shock to Police Falls deputy Howard Fields, who up until now had considered the case a simple matter of suicide. "Finding a gun in a river is one thing... but then you've got to wonder why someone wanted it there to begin with; You've got to wonder why they didn't want us to know it was theirs."
But even with the questioning of these individuals, deputy Fields isn't quite ready to connect them to the Klatos Investigation. "We don't even know if this incident is related to Archie Klatos; this could be a non-correlated crime, if a crime has been committed at all. All we know is that their prints were found on a gun, and a missing person's was not."
“Finding a gun in a river is one thing... but then you've got to wonder why someone wanted it there”
The connection, while tangential, provides an unusual lesson. Of the two suspects, the police consider it more likely that Thomas Michaels will be implicated than Morton Higgins. "I suspect Morton Higgins will be released as early as tomorrow. His questioning is a formality at best, and we suspect he bore no knowledge of the crime."
It's strangely a fitting end to this entire investigation. All the answers are clear, and the air of mystery completely explained; a teenager (or an accomplice) bought a gun from a blissfully unaware gun shop owner, then used it to kill his classmate.
It sounds too good to be true.
The suspicion that Thomas Michaels killed Archie Klatos is too fitting and too perfect in timing. If there's anything to be learned from this case, it's definitely not that first impressions are reliable conclusions. After all, Deputy Fields first impression was that a teen committed suicide. Now it appears more likely he was murdered.
If there's anything to be learned from this case, it might rather be that things aren't as they appear. After all, at first glance a young boy wouldn't appear capable of murder. At second glance, it's a possibility. Is third glance a charm?