Maybe she already did know as much as he knew.
“We’re working on a suspect vehicle make and model…”
Nope. She knew more. He obviously hadn’t read the papers in his precious folders.
“…which we should have soon…”
Hailey couldn’t stand it.
“You’re looking for a white Ford Explorer with damage to the passenger side,” she blurted, and the detective’s mouth fell open.
The clock on the wall ticked twice, before he closed it again.
He grabbed up his notebook and pen. “Did you see the vehicle?”
“No,” she said, pointing to his precious files. “I read the acceleration mark analysis and compared it to the analysis of the paint scrapings. That narrows your pool to one possible vehicle—a white Ford Explorer.”
“I left you alone for five minutes,” he said as he flipped through his stack of papers. “You read all that in here?”
“Didn’t you?” she fired back. “And it was seven minutes.” This guy was never gonna find Holly.
“No,” he said, “I only just got these as I was walking out the door to come see you.”
At least he’s honest.
“What else did you read in these files that you weren’t supposed to even look at?” he asked, annoyed but interested.
Just then a uniform knocked twice on his door and poked his head inside.
“Sir, we finished that analysis you asked for,” he said. “Looks like a white Ford Explorer.”
“Thanks,” he said sarcastically, and he turned back to Hailey. “Well? Anything else you’d like to share?”
“Why do you have a file from our house fire?”
“I just…” He pulled the confidential folder from the pile and opened it. “This is every scrap of info we had that relates to Holly. This file is…what…fourteen years old?” He raised his eyebrows as he thumbed through it, and then he closed it again. “I’m looking at everything,” he said simply. “…anything that could point us in the right direction.”
“What’s DOPPLER?”
“Doppler?” He started flipping through the papers again.
“Never mind,” said Hailey. He didn’t know.
Toll clicked his pen and put his notebook on top of the chaos that was his desk.
“Does your sister have any enemies?”
“No. Everybody loves Holly.”
“Boyfriends?”
“No.”
“Anybody you can think of that wanted to hurt her?”
“No.”
“Did she recently reject someone?”
