“Okay, so we have a dead fed, a dead cop, and a dead restaurant owner. What did they all have in common?” Gene asked.
Ethan didn’t know, but he was hoping whoever ransacked the place didn’t find what they were looking for here.
That would buy them time.
“I don’t know, but Jarod Shand had something that they wanted. This is feeling far more directed at him stumbling across something than some Voodoo priestess gone awry.”
On that, they agreed.
Killers rarely ransacked a place unless they were looking for something. What disappointed Gene was that they both wished they could check out the other two men’s homes.
But too much time had passed.
“Did you see anything in the files of the other men saying this happened at their place?” Ethan asked, proving their brains worked the same.
Gene shook his head.
“No, nothing. This is out of place.”
Yes, yes, it was.
Moving around, they looked at the man’s things tossed all over the place. What they didn’t find was anything weird or proving that the man was involved in something kinky.
What they also didn’t find was very telling.
HIS.
LAPTOP.
It wasn’t here either.
So if it wasn’t at work, and it wasn’t here, that only left two options. If he had a car, it was in it, or someone had stolen it.
Clearly, they wanted on that laptop.
Only, they had access to the man’s desktop, and saw what was there. It was all work related.
“I have a BOLO out on his car that’s still missing,” Gene admitted. “As I was leaving, I asked one of the agents if he drove it for work, and he did.”
Ethan was thinking about it.
“Well, then, it has to be on the island. It didn’t float away.”
They hoped.
“I’m betting the killer took the man, used his car, and has it either burned to the metal in some abandoned area, or they’ve tucked it away in the trees. I don’t think we’ll find it,” Ethan admitted.
Yeah, he kind of agreed there.
“Someone is blocking us at any given opportunity,” he admitted. “Someone doesNOTwant us digging into this.”
Clearly.
Gene was curious.
“We need to get into his cases,” he admitted. “And we need to get into Aaron Figueroa’s cases too. Something they might have touched got them killed.”
Ethan was to the point.
