A local woman missing- Mary Kubica

tells me that he doesn’t want me out after dark for anything, not until
they find the person who did this to her.
“You’re going to drive me to and from my births?” I challenge.
“Wake the kids up in the middle of the night and make them come?”
He thinks it through. His answer to this is, “You’ll take a cab. The
driver can drop you off and pick you up at the hospital door.”
“You’re being ridiculous,” I say, trying hard to control the tremor in
my voice. “You do hear what they’re saying, don’t you, about the
husband? How he killed her? I think I’m safe, unless you have plans
of killing me,” I say, fleeing the room. I’m more contrary than I should
be.
The guilt ravages me. Not only Shelby’s death, but that Jason may
take the fall for it.
“Are you mad?” Josh asks when he finds me later in the bathroom
getting ready for bed. “Did I upset you?” He comes up behind me.
He lays a tender hand on my lower back. He wraps around me from
behind, so that his arms circle my midriff. He knots his hands. He
lowers his chin to my shoulder. He says, “I couldn’t live without you.”
I don’t deserve Josh after what I’ve done. Josh is a good man.
I can only stand it a few seconds before I free myself of his hold.
“What’s wrong, Meredith?” he asks.
“Nothing,” I snap at him. “I’m fine.”
“You don’t seem fine.”
“I am fine.”
I find myself searching things online. How exactly does one die in
an auto-ped accident? Head trauma is often to blame. So, too, is
organ damage, internal bleeding, damage to major arteries. I get
sucked down a rabbit hole of information. Shelby’s body should have
ricocheted off the hood of the car when we hit her, because of the
force of impact, and because of Newton’s laws of motion. She
shouldn’t have toppled over in front of it. This leads me to believe
she wasn’t standing upright. That she was hunkered down, doing
something as innocuous as tying a shoe. Who’d ever think you could
be killed while tying a shoe?
Another thing I look up: Do corpses make sounds after death? The
answer is yes. When a body is moved after death, the air left in the
windpipe can escape. The result is a groan or a moan.