title: The Crucifixion Murders
author:  Dan Sprague 
description: I was born in Australia, but raised and educated in the United States. The day I left Australia at age 2, was the very day my wife was born on the other side of the world. Thus the two of us began an 18,000 mile, 20 year journey to finally meet at a small college in upstate New York on Friday the 13th of December, (the luckiest day of my life). After college I became a computer programmer; mainframes at first, then minis and finally PC networks. Before I knew it though, I was fixing hardware and making a living building computer networks. But, aside from my wife, teaching was my first love, so I retired at 55 and went back to college to become a high school computer science teacher. Retired from teaching now, my wife and I live in Florida with our 3 rat terriers.
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  # Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini
  
  
  ### Crucifixion River  
    
    
  
  
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  # [End of the Road](004-toc.html)
  
  
  “Are you going to send me back?”
  
  
  No, I thought, I’m going to put a bullet in your silly head and dump your body
  in the slough. Be rid of one problem, at the least. I’d never killed a woman
  before, but there’s a first time for everything, and she was a burden I
  couldn’t bear. I eased back the tail of my coat.
  
  
  “If you take me with you,” she said, “I’ll tell you how we can go on.”
  
  
  “Go on? With this blasted tree blocking the road?”
  
  
  “There’s a way around, another road intersects with this one about a mile
  farther south.”
  
  
  “What road? You mean the one we passed a ways back?”
  
  
  “Yes. It leads to Crucifixion River.”
  
  
  “What’s that?”
  
  
  “It’s…a kind of ghost camp.”
  
  
  “Nobody lives there?”
  
  
  “Nobody.”
  
  
  “Easy to spot, this track?”
  
  
  “It’s overgrown. But I k