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Amy Dehner: A Short Story

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Beckett entered the interrogation room, folder in hand, ready to wrap up her case. They had enough evidence to convict Rebecca Brynn, but in order to wipe out any reasonable doubt, they needed to find what motivated her to murder Amy Dehner, and they had to make sure that Brynn didn’t have an alibi. If Beckett could get her to confess, they could all go home early. Sitting down across from the woman, Beckett studied Rebecca Brynn. She seemed calm, but she gave herself away with the quiet tap of her fingers on the table. Her long, light brown hair cascaded over her shoulders, and her clothing was made to look high quality but was most likely a cheap knock-off of a more expensive brand.
“You people better be paying for my flight,” Brynn said …show more content…

She didn’t say anything more, and seemed to accept that she’s been caught in a lie.
“Do you know who Amy Dehner is?” Beckett questioned, wondering just how much of a fight she would put up.
“The name sounds familiar,” Brynn said carefully.
“I think it’s more than just the name that’s familiar,” the detective challenged.
“My daughter told me about her. She said that Amy was the girl who stole Troy from her.” The resentment in her voice gave away her true feelings about Dehner.
“How did your daughter take the break up?”
“She was heart-broken, and it was all because of that brat Amy.” Beckett could see the woman’s calm shell breaking, and knew that it wouldn’t be much longer before she broke completely.
“Are you aware that Miss Dehner was murdered early Monday morning?”
“She deserved what she got for flaunting that boy around on her arm, when he should have been with my daughter!” A vein in the woman’s neck started to bulge, and Beckett knew that she had finally cracked. “For weeks Hayleigh hardly spoke! All she did was go to class and come back home just as silently as she left! I did what I had to to make my little girl …show more content…

Amy had been killed because Rebecca Brynn believed that she had been standing in the way of her daughter’s happiness, and had decided that the best way to fix the issue was to take Amy out of the picture completely. Beckett had never expected to get a confession so easily, but the guilt that was starting to surface on Brynn’s face told her that the woman’s conscience had finally caught up with her.
Standing from her chair, Beckett nodded to the glass behind her. A few moments later, Ryan came in through the door and asked Brynn to stand, reading her her rights as tears began to stream down her face.
“I just wanted her to be happy,” she breathed almost inaudibly.
As Ryan walked her out of the room, Beckett took a moment to just breathe, then exited the room and headed towards her desk. Esposito had already returned to his desk, and she stopped to briefly reflect on the case with him.
“You know it’s one thing to kill for money, politics, or even because you were cheated on, but because your daughter was unhappy? I’m not sure if that’s love or insanity,” Beckett told him.
“If I’ve learned anything from cases like these, it’s that people will kill for just about any reason,” he offered as a means of

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