" There was a certain amount of shock involved.  Up until the time when the murderers so casually confessed to the planning and murdering of a completely innocent woman, Bubba had assumed the best of the worst scenario, that Melissa had come to see him to apologize for past deeds and simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time.  But the truth was far more insidious.  The theory was that she had been lured by Lurlene in order to frame Bubba for murder.  The story about Bubba and his ex-fiancée was well-known in the community.  It was only a matter of finding the details.  Then there was the simple process of stealing a gun from Miz Demetrice’s house.  That was another well-known fact in the community; Miz Demetrice liked to keep guns around her house.  The gun was used in the murder, wiped clean, and then hidden in Bubba’s woodpile, where the police would almost certainly find it, which they had with the help of an anonymous phone call. It "

― C.L. Bevill , Bubba and the Dead Woman (Bubba Snoddy, #1)