Alexandra moved forward half a step. “No, I do.”
“May I see your I.D.?”
She pulled out her driver’s license. The officer took a hard look at it and nodded. “You haven’t been inside at all?”
Alexandra shook her head. “No.”
The officer nodded. “Come see if anything has been taken. Is your roommate on her way here?”
Alexandra’s lips twisted to the side. “She’s in a hospital in Georgia. We were in a car accident Sunday morning, she’s in ICU.”
The officer nodded, and the flash of red and blue lights hitting the windows caught my attention. Through the blinds, I noticed another patrol car in the parking lot.
Alexandra hurried to her bedroom. I heard her rummaging through her drawers while Officer Hatcher spoke into his walkie-talkie again.
A moment later another officer came up holding a small kit. “Am I good to dust the door?”
Officer Hatcher nodded. “Yes, Officer Ramierez.”
Alexandra wandered back into the room. “None of my jewelry is gone - do you want me to check the master bedroom, too?”
“Would you know if something is missing there?” Officer Hatcher asked.
Alexandra thought about it. “Not really.”
“If she finds property was stolen, call me to report it,” he said, handing her a business card. “You’re a student?”
Alexandra nodded. “Dental program.”
Officer Hatcher made a note of that. “This appears to be random—”
“Her ex-boyfriend was here earlier and wouldn’t leave when she repeatedly asked him to. For that matter, her roommate’s boyfriend was here this morning. She didn’t know he had a key. He wouldn’t give up the key, and we changed the locks because of that.”
Officer Hatcher aimed a skeptical look at me. “Why do you suspect they would have done this?”
“I don’t know, other than Porter being pissed that she wants nothing to do with him.”
Officer Ramierez straightened from the front door. “Can you pull up your doorbell camera footage?”
Alexandra grabbed her phone and opened up the app. The screen was black. She rewound to after we left. Then fast-forwarded until someone’s hand came up and the screen went dark. Officer Hatcher approached the doorbell and removed a lengthy piece of black electrical tape.
“Was anyone threatening you or Ms. Tallow?”
Alexandra shook her head. “Not that I know of. I can call her mom… I would assume Ines would tell her that sort of thing.”
Officer Ramierez sidled up to Officer Hatcher. “Appears the door was wiped clean.”
He nodded and looked at us. “I’ll contact the two men who were here earlier today. Have your building management change your locks again. Don’t hesitate to call if you find anything missing.”
After the officers left, Alexandra muttered, “This sucks.”
“Yeah.”
“Should we hit Home Depot? They don’t close for another hour.”
I shook my head. “I’ll do that in the morning.”
She twisted her lips to the side. “Does this have something to do with the odds and ends you put away earlier?”
