“I’m grateful that you can find some closure, now, Anna. I hadn’t heard yet. I just wanted to make sure that you knew that they have the one responsible in custody,” Quinn said.
“Agent Street told us when he gave us the news just a few moments ago. I can’t believe the gall of that woman to come into my home and act as if she knew nothing about the disappearance of my daughter when she brought Cliff by. Detective Phillips is right. She is a psychopath.”
“Is Agent Street still there? Did he happen to mention whether they found Barbie Martin as well?”
“I’m sorry, he isn’t and he didn’t,” Anna said. “He couldn’t stay. He got called away shortly after he arrived by his task force.”
Quinn took a deep breath. “I guess we can only wait and see what happens.”
“Yes.”
“I’m so glad the wait is over for you and Lee,” Quinn said. “I never did get to do the feature articles I talked about because I went to Lewistown to get info on Heather for hers and was stabbed. I have your photos to return to you.”
“We’ll get them when we come to Altoona as planned,” Anna said.
“Okay then. I won’t keep you.”
“Thank you for reaching out,” Anna said and then hung up.
Quinn slowly walked back into the living room where Trish and Trenton were getting up to leave. “You don’t have to rush off, do you?”
“Agent Street wants to see us,” Trenton said. “He made it clear his task force hasn’t found Barbie, but he wanted to update us on what’s been going on with the investigation and what the arrest of Beamer means.”
“That is so nice of him,” Quinn said.
“Isn’t it.” Trish squeezed her hand. “We can’t thank you enough for what you’ve done. Risking your life, the way you did to help us find out the truth.”
“It was my job,” she said.
“More than that,” Trish said, hugging her tight. “Way more.”
When she pulled away, Quinn said, “Before you go, you should know, that Anna informed me they have found Sandy’s remains now, too. Her wallet was buried with her, so it made for easy identification.”
Trish sucked in a breath and looked at her husband. “If they found Sandy then surely they’ll find Barbie.”
They clasped hands and touched their foreheads together, standing like that for a few moments before breaking apart.
“Thank you for the news. We’re going to go now. Have a good rest of your day,” Trenton said.
“As Quinn said, just doing our job,” Grimm said, walking over to stand behind Quinn.
When they were gone, she turned around. “I just pray they get the answers they deserve. If Agent Street’s teams have found two women they have to be able to locate Barbie as well.”
Grimm nodded. He slowly turned and went to clean up the coffee tray. “You better text Sheraton the news and that we’ll be in soon or he’ll think something has happened.”
“I’ll call him as I gather my things,” she said. “It’ll be quicker.”
She walked toward her bedroom but was stopped when there was another knock at her front door. Grimm was almost in the kitchen and paused, looking back at her. She shrugged. “I feel like this is Grand Central this morning.”
She opened the door and Sheraton was standing there with a wide grin on his face. “Are you in the mood for some good news?”
She laughed, allowing him to come inside before she closed the door. “Depends on what you have to tell me.”
“You might want to sit down for this because it will blow your socks off otherwise,” he said.
“Grimm’s in the kitchen. He’ll want to hear as well. Let’s go in there,” she said, leading the way. “You just missed the Creswell’s. They came by to find out if it were true about Candace.”
“And it is.” Sheraton rubbed his hands together, then clapped them. “But it doesn’t top this.”
