When police came to talk to him, Jason Armstrong did not try to disguise his contempt for Cory Kaufman.
He's a thief, so I don't.
I don't like thieves.
You know what I mean?
So I guarantee there ain't nobody ever said nothing good about it, you know, in the deal is nobody liked Cory.
To be honest with you, Jason Armstrong had had some brushes with the law, going back to the nineties.
He'd been arrested for domestic violence, though the charge was dropped on his police report.
His occupation was listed as welder.
He was known to buy and resell cars and to host frequent parties at his home in Danar, across from a big dirt lot.
It was a few miles from where Corey Kaufman had disappeared in early 2012.
Armstrong remembered Kaufman as, quote, salty and rude, an inveterate thief and a tweaker, meaning a meth addict.
You're not gonna find nobody on planet earth that likes him.
Cause he's always jumping everybody's fences and stealing their shit, right?
You know, he just always is up to no good.
Armstrong insisted that he had not killed him, that at 47 years old, he was too old even to fight.
Why would I kill that dude, Corey?
Okay, let me finish, though.
Let me finish.
Only thing I'd do wrong, smoking a little weed.
I haven't killed nobody in all my life, and I'm old.