Geri Miller was dead, and had been for eight years. Blaming her for the murder itself if anyone believed that would take suspicion off Casey and Rein, and Neil apparently thought he would get a lesser sentence as an accomplice after the fact.

“I don’t believe you,” Denny Wood said. “How could your mother at her age shoot a man and then carry him downstairs to the freezer and put him in? I think you asked Joe to go downstairs and that you’re the one who shot him. And that would have had to be a really big freezer to fit a large man into.”

“Yes,” Neil admitted, he had...