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attention.
“There was one report about material collected from the bottom of our suspect’s shoe. Turns out that it was dried plant material from a California buttercup. He had to have picked that up on the West coast. It doesn’t grow around here.”
“Good find,” Cassidy responded.
Finally, something that impresses him! She was relieved and added, “I’ll make contact with the California authorities to see if they recognize our guy.”
Alec smiled. Yes, she was coming along nicely. Not quite there yet, but making progress, he thought. “I think there’s a more intriguing connection. Jordan Lawrence used to work in California. Interesting that our dead assailant may have a California connection too, don’t you think?”
The big picture was coming into focus for Nora. She was anxious to get back to the office and start following up on her leads.
* * * * *
Nora sat at her desk and picked up the phone. Jordan Lawrence had told his wife he worked in Los Angeles before coming to Chicago so that is where she would start. She called the Los Angeles Police Homicide Department hoping that they would be most inclined to help out another homicide department on an investigation. Her call was put through to Lieutenant Mark Jennings, L.A. Homicide.
Lieutenant Jennings came on the line, “I understand that you are looking for some help identifying a suspect with a California connection. Why don’t you tell me what you have and we’ll see what we can do for you.”
Nora ran through the details and evidence to date on their case. “We’ve run fingerprints through all the national data bases and haven’t found a match. Our local facial recognition data base has come up blank. I was hoping that maybe you might have something in your system to help identify our guy. My Lieutenant thinks that there is something more to our break-in incident than a simple neighborhood robbery. We need to find out who this guy is in order to figure it out.”
“Your perp sounds like a career criminal. It’s surprising he isn’t showing up in the system. If he’s a pro for hire, he must have been taking great pains to keep a low profile. Our Organized Crime Unit may have him on their radar, though. They have a watch list of shady characters that they track. Send me whatever photos you have, I’ll run him through our facial recognition program. Better send the autopsy and tattoo images as well. I’ll touch base with our Organized Crime and Gang Units to see if anyone recognizes him or his ink. It might take me a few days to get back to you. Our department is running with a couple of high profile homicides right now. Those investigations are tying up most of our resources and personnel.”
“Any help you can give us will be great. Thanks.” Nora gave Lieutenant Jennings her contact information and thanked him again before hanging up. She faxed him the case evidence he requested. Now all she could do was wait to see if anything turned up.
Chapter 7
O N SATURDAY SARAH and Jordan went out to dinner with Ruth and their group of friends as planned. They ended the evening at Ruth’s house enjoying one of her fabulous desserts. Jordan was his attentive and engaging self and Sarah felt like things were finally returning to normal.
The following day Jordan said he was going out to shoot some pool with Kyle Mason. From that point on, most of Jordan’s time was spent either working long hours or out with Kyle. He was on the phone with Kyle constantly and arranged to see him almost every day, but never at the house.
The quiet evenings of sipping wine on the couch and watching a movie that Sarah coveted vanished. She understood that Jordan was not from Chicago and an old friend would be important to him. She knew too that Jordan had no family, but she still resented the way Kyle seemed to be taking up the little bit of free time that Jordan had. She was feeling pushed aside.
She tried to tilt the balance in her favor by
“There was one report about material collected from the bottom of our suspect’s shoe. Turns out that it was dried plant material from a California buttercup. He had to have picked that up on the West coast. It doesn’t grow around here.”
“Good find,” Cassidy responded.
Finally, something that impresses him! She was relieved and added, “I’ll make contact with the California authorities to see if they recognize our guy.”
Alec smiled. Yes, she was coming along nicely. Not quite there yet, but making progress, he thought. “I think there’s a more intriguing connection. Jordan Lawrence used to work in California. Interesting that our dead assailant may have a California connection too, don’t you think?”
The big picture was coming into focus for Nora. She was anxious to get back to the office and start following up on her leads.
* * * * *
Nora sat at her desk and picked up the phone. Jordan Lawrence had told his wife he worked in Los Angeles before coming to Chicago so that is where she would start. She called the Los Angeles Police Homicide Department hoping that they would be most inclined to help out another homicide department on an investigation. Her call was put through to Lieutenant Mark Jennings, L.A. Homicide.
Lieutenant Jennings came on the line, “I understand that you are looking for some help identifying a suspect with a California connection. Why don’t you tell me what you have and we’ll see what we can do for you.”
Nora ran through the details and evidence to date on their case. “We’ve run fingerprints through all the national data bases and haven’t found a match. Our local facial recognition data base has come up blank. I was hoping that maybe you might have something in your system to help identify our guy. My Lieutenant thinks that there is something more to our break-in incident than a simple neighborhood robbery. We need to find out who this guy is in order to figure it out.”
“Your perp sounds like a career criminal. It’s surprising he isn’t showing up in the system. If he’s a pro for hire, he must have been taking great pains to keep a low profile. Our Organized Crime Unit may have him on their radar, though. They have a watch list of shady characters that they track. Send me whatever photos you have, I’ll run him through our facial recognition program. Better send the autopsy and tattoo images as well. I’ll touch base with our Organized Crime and Gang Units to see if anyone recognizes him or his ink. It might take me a few days to get back to you. Our department is running with a couple of high profile homicides right now. Those investigations are tying up most of our resources and personnel.”
“Any help you can give us will be great. Thanks.” Nora gave Lieutenant Jennings her contact information and thanked him again before hanging up. She faxed him the case evidence he requested. Now all she could do was wait to see if anything turned up.
Chapter 7
O N SATURDAY SARAH and Jordan went out to dinner with Ruth and their group of friends as planned. They ended the evening at Ruth’s house enjoying one of her fabulous desserts. Jordan was his attentive and engaging self and Sarah felt like things were finally returning to normal.
The following day Jordan said he was going out to shoot some pool with Kyle Mason. From that point on, most of Jordan’s time was spent either working long hours or out with Kyle. He was on the phone with Kyle constantly and arranged to see him almost every day, but never at the house.
The quiet evenings of sipping wine on the couch and watching a movie that Sarah coveted vanished. She understood that Jordan was not from Chicago and an old friend would be important to him. She knew too that Jordan had no family, but she still resented the way Kyle seemed to be taking up the little bit of free time that Jordan had. She was feeling pushed aside.
She tried to tilt the balance in her favor by
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