She thought about it.
“I mean, it fits. What else do we know about her?” she asked.
Gene was working on social media.
“Well, how about this? She worked for the church.”
That made her raise an eyebrow.
“Pardon?”
He nodded.
“You heard me right. Steph Lewis works as the secretary to the church. That’s also why she was buried on this side in a family plot. Her whole family must be part of the church.”
Well, hell.
They had bodies taken from this cemetery, a caretaker of this cemetery, and now a woman who worked for the church that owned this cemetery.
That gave her a focal point, and just might be where this was all centered. Ethan had said she needed to find the connection to get this dude, and this might be it.
That was a few too many incidents that were tied to one singular place.
“Yeah, that’s not going to be a coincidence.”
Gene didn’t think so either.
“I’ll see if everyone is tied to the church in a way. If it is, we might have a situation. I know that you and Ethan don’t think that Jeffrey Von Gunter is behind this, but what if he is, and he’s so good at faking it, he’s made us miss something?”
She didn’t know.
The bottom line was that he could be faking it. He’d have to be a damn good actor, but it was possible. Anything was when you were chasing a watcher and collector.
“I’ll keep that in the brain and let it bounce around,” she said. “I’ll talk to Ethan. I know I told you to call him, but I’m going to do the deed. I just need to know about the other two victims who Chris ID’d.”
Well, they knew who could help them there.
“MATE?”
Her assistant materialized beside her.
“I need you to find out how someone died for me. Chris just ID’d her. I already know how Lory Vanbruggen died. Now, tell me how Alina died.”
MATE hummed.
It didn’t take her long. She went into Chris’s drive, and found her details. Then, she found the autopsy from the ME’s office.
“Alina Mussen was a nurse. She died around six months ago when she had a car accident.”
They waited.
“Her car, with her in it, was found in a ditch. She died of blunt force trauma from a vehicular incident.”
Elizabeth was curious.
“Go into the police system, and see what the detectives who handled this said about it. Because we had two victims, Penny Rich, and Joan Gehert get run down by a car. Now, we have another woman who was in a vehicular accident? That’s looking a little too suspicious for me.”
MATE went silent for a few seconds, and then, she shared what she’d found.
