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plenty of work to do. 

 
    Chapter Fifteen
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chloe’s first stop was the scene of the crime.  She wanted to see if maybe the police missed something during their investigation.  Any clues Chloe could find were welcome at this point.  Chloe had no idea what, if anything, she’d be able to turn up at the crime scene, but she had to try. 
    As Chloe pulled up to the parking lot of Marty Mattress Mart, the police were gone.  The question was, had anything important been left behind?  Before she had a chance to poke around, she saw Jason Diamond, the mystery man and ex-convict, on the other side of the parking lot. 
    Jason was rooting through the dumpster that was adjacent to the back door of the mattress mart.  How curious to find one of the murder suspects back at the scene of the crime skulking around.  All kinds of red flags went off in Chloe’s mind.  This was highly suspicious.  Not to mention quite bold. 
    Chloe had plenty of questions for Jason to begin with.  Suddenly she had even more.  She also had an unexpected opportunity here.  If she played her cards right, she could sneak up behind him and corner him. 
    Chloe did her best to keep as quiet as possible as she approached Jason on the other end of the parking lot.  All her efforts ended up being for not however, as Jason suddenly started looking around, as paranoid as could be.
    With that, Chloe’s element of surprise was gone.  The moment Jason spotted her, his eyes opened wide.
    There was no cornering him now.  Chloe had to try and make her words count. 
    “Funny running into you here.  Did you leave something behind last night?” she asked. 
    Instead of answering, Jason made a break for it, fleeing from the scene.   
    That was not the response she’d anticipated.  She expected him to at least say something.  Jason meanwhile seemed content to let his feet do the talking for him. 
    Chloe said the first thing that came to her mind.  “Hey, where do you think you’re going?”
    It was incredible.  All of a sudden, Jason couldn’t wait to put as much distance between himself and the scene of the crime as possible.  The man went into a full-on sprint.
    Chloe began to run after him, shouting at him as she tailed him. 
    “I’m talking to you.  You can run but you can’t hide.”
    Chloe was no match for Jason’s speed.  Even if she had running shoes on, it wouldn’t be enough to catch up with him.  Realizing how fruitless her pursuit was, she decided to return to the crime scene, and resolved to catch up with him later. 
     
     
     
     
     
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    When she got back to the parking lot, Chloe headed directly for the dumpster.  Talk about a strange moment in her life.  Never before had Chloe been in such a hurry to get to a dumpster.  Ah, the things she did to exonerate her friend from a murder charge. 
    Unfortunately, after five minutes of rooting around, she didn’t find anything. What a raw deal.  There she was, literally rummaging around in trash, and she had nothing to show for it. Chloe wasn’t sure if that was because Jason had found what he was looking for and pocketed it before he fled the scene.  There was also the possibility that the police had dug up every shred of evidence available from the crime scene.  The last option was that there was nothing of value left to find in that dumpster in the first place.  Chloe had no idea which was the truth. 
    The rest of the parking lot provided no answers either.  Despite nearly twenty minutes of scouring, Chloe ended up completely empty-handed.  Yikes.  This was not the best start to her sleuthing career.

 
     
    Chapter Sixteen
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Just as Chloe was ready to leave the crime scene, she got a phone call from her friend. 
    “Kristina, I didn’t expect to hear from you this soon,” Chloe said, into the phone.
    “Time is not exactly on my side,” Kristina replied. 
    “So, how has the