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pink tank top and short white shorts and made a peanut butter and strawberry jelly sandwich. Then she sat down and pored through the papers in front of her. She could see the story unfold in front of her eyes. She turned on the laptop, first finding Slipknot’s Iowa CD in the media player and cranking it . She wrote best to Slipknot, and she needed a great story today. So she decided to present what the arrest affidavit told her: She summed up that charges were filed against Edwards (something anyone who’d been reading the paper would know by now), and then she began to nail down the facts of the case thus far. Edwards was the younger half-brother of Michael Sterne, also charged in the case, who had—thus far—eluded capture. As Neal had told Nicki a couple of days ago, the police had an APB out for Sterne’s arrest, but he was not yet in custody.
According to the arrest affidavit, one Charles Baker of Colorado Springs had fires set to his home two months earlier, and those fires destroyed the house. Charles Baker was dating Sterne’s ex-girlfriend, Melissa Jacobs, the month prior to the fires. The arrest affidavit went on to state that Sterne’s cell phone was pinging off towers in W inchester County on April thirtee nth, the day and time of the fires, and Edwards’s phone was pinging off towers in Colorado Springs in return. There were also multiple calls made between the two men during the time of the fires. In March, Sterne had been arrested already with an assault charge. Baker had been visiting Jacobs in Winchester at the time and Sterne had gotten in Baker’s face over it .
So now Nicki knew how the police had figured it out, but she still didn’t understand why the men were being charged in Winchester instead of in Colorado Springs . She found Paul Sanders’s business card and dialed it on her cell phone. She knew she’d wind up getting the secretary, but maybe he would call her back right away since he’d offered to answer further questions.
“Assistant DA Sanders.” Well, hello . She had his direct line. This could come in handy.
She smiled. “Hi, Mr. Sanders. This is Nicki Sosebee. I’ve gone over Jason Edwards’s arrest affidavit, and I do have one question.”
“Shoot.” Maybe not as humorless as she’d originally imagined. She was glad to hear that.
“Why are Edwards and his half-brother being charged in Winchester instead of El Paso County ? ” She cleared her throat. “This is on the record, by the way.”
She could hear a smile in Sanders’s voice. “I assumed so.” He paused. “Edwards and Sterne are being charged here because Sterne was first arrested when he assaulted Charles Baker. That criminal activity occurred in Winchester County , not El Paso . And, further, the two men planned the arson here in Winchester County as well.”
Nicki jotted his information down. “How do you know they planned the arson here?”
Sanders didn’t answer at first. “I’m not at liberty to say.”
Didn’t matter—he’d already said it… on the record ...so she would quote it. She didn’t have to say how they knew.
“Is there anything else you think I should know?”
“No, I don’t think so. Those are the questions I would’ve asked in your shoes.”
Nicki hoped that Sanders would turn out to be a solid contact in the DA’s office. Even if not, he’d been of immense help today. She finished writing out her story, including at the end that Sanders had refused to comment . She then pounded out a first paragraph that told—in true journalist fashion—the most important but bare-boned facts of the story , and then emailed it to Neal. She followed up with a phone call, letting him know the story was on the way.
And she still had two hours before she had to go to Napoli , so she decided to go brag to Sean about her killer story.
Chapter Ten
NICKI’S CELL PHONE rang just as she was
According to the arrest affidavit, one Charles Baker of Colorado Springs had fires set to his home two months earlier, and those fires destroyed the house. Charles Baker was dating Sterne’s ex-girlfriend, Melissa Jacobs, the month prior to the fires. The arrest affidavit went on to state that Sterne’s cell phone was pinging off towers in W inchester County on April thirtee nth, the day and time of the fires, and Edwards’s phone was pinging off towers in Colorado Springs in return. There were also multiple calls made between the two men during the time of the fires. In March, Sterne had been arrested already with an assault charge. Baker had been visiting Jacobs in Winchester at the time and Sterne had gotten in Baker’s face over it .
So now Nicki knew how the police had figured it out, but she still didn’t understand why the men were being charged in Winchester instead of in Colorado Springs . She found Paul Sanders’s business card and dialed it on her cell phone. She knew she’d wind up getting the secretary, but maybe he would call her back right away since he’d offered to answer further questions.
“Assistant DA Sanders.” Well, hello . She had his direct line. This could come in handy.
She smiled. “Hi, Mr. Sanders. This is Nicki Sosebee. I’ve gone over Jason Edwards’s arrest affidavit, and I do have one question.”
“Shoot.” Maybe not as humorless as she’d originally imagined. She was glad to hear that.
“Why are Edwards and his half-brother being charged in Winchester instead of El Paso County ? ” She cleared her throat. “This is on the record, by the way.”
She could hear a smile in Sanders’s voice. “I assumed so.” He paused. “Edwards and Sterne are being charged here because Sterne was first arrested when he assaulted Charles Baker. That criminal activity occurred in Winchester County , not El Paso . And, further, the two men planned the arson here in Winchester County as well.”
Nicki jotted his information down. “How do you know they planned the arson here?”
Sanders didn’t answer at first. “I’m not at liberty to say.”
Didn’t matter—he’d already said it… on the record ...so she would quote it. She didn’t have to say how they knew.
“Is there anything else you think I should know?”
“No, I don’t think so. Those are the questions I would’ve asked in your shoes.”
Nicki hoped that Sanders would turn out to be a solid contact in the DA’s office. Even if not, he’d been of immense help today. She finished writing out her story, including at the end that Sanders had refused to comment . She then pounded out a first paragraph that told—in true journalist fashion—the most important but bare-boned facts of the story , and then emailed it to Neal. She followed up with a phone call, letting him know the story was on the way.
And she still had two hours before she had to go to Napoli , so she decided to go brag to Sean about her killer story.
Chapter Ten
NICKI’S CELL PHONE rang just as she was
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