“Joan Gehert did what for a living?” she asked.
Gene was on top of it.
You had to be on her team.
“She was a stay-at-home mother. She was out running before her husband left for work. That’s when she was struck by a car.”
Elizabeth began making a list in her head. She had to find the way they all connected.
“And Penny Rich?” she asked.
Gene also knew that too from what Chris had shared with them.
“She was a schoolteacher who had been riding her bike home from work when she was hit,” he said, so Ethan could be on the same page.
Elizabeth started trying to connect the dots.
“If this killer had contact with them, I need to know what Joan’s husband did for a living, too. I don’t want to miss a single step in the process.”
Gene also had that.
“He is a photographer. He owns his own business, and still does it. He has a website, and it says he does all kinds of photographs.”
Okay, that really didn’t connect to any of the suspects she had in mind. The last thing she wanted to do was deal with the families. It was bad enough that she was going to have them exhumed.
That was going to piss them off.
GREATLY.
Now, she took her suspect list and considered what she knew.
Oh, and it was a very short list.
‘Trenton Balkin
Jeffrey Von Gunter
Devon Slater
Larry Springer
The man who found Jonathan’
Yeah, that was a pretty good list for day one, but she was able to immediately remove two of them. The caretaker of the cemetery, and the current owner of the building.
She rattled off the names for her partners, and Gene wrote them down to upload them.
“Gene, see if you can connect ties to any of our suspects. For day one, we don’t have much, and I don’t believe Devon Slater belongs on that list, nor Jeffrey Von Gunter, but I like to cover all of my bases.”
Gene got it.
He was on research duty tonight. Luckily for him, by morning, MATE would have it handled. Oh, and he was definitely using their AI assistant.
Someone was still sleeping tonight.
Ethan continued.
“We have a collector, but we know he’s watching. So that makes him trickier. We need to make sure we’re careful. He’s going to lurk, and he’s going to take it all in. Everything we do will be studied, and now, it’s going to be a game. He’ll consider this a challenge. We removed his collection, and that goes to Hell in a handbasketREALLYfast.”
