“We have Jeffrey on the list, and I think that’s self-explanatory,” Gene said. “Unless I can remove him one hundred percent, I’m not comfortable with removing him.”
Callen chimed in.
“At the rate the deep search is going, you’ll have confirmation and his family history by morning.”
She was good with that, too. She wasn’t expecting much on that one.
“Who’s next?” she asked.
He pointed at the list.
“They ran Bill Farmington,” Gene said, meaning the two detectives. “They found he’s clean, but that brings us to his one employee, who coincidentally is the same person who called the body in at the scene.”
She lifted a brow.
“What’s that mean?”
Callen shared.
“Ernie Kotile did two decades in prison for killing his friend who was messing with his woman.”
Oh, well, that meant she needed to talk to him. He was a killer, so that pointed her right at him.
“So you think maybe he liked killing and was killing before he went in?” Callen asked. “When did he get out of prison?”
Gene shared.
“Around the time frame that this started getting wonky. He doesn’t fit timeline-wise, but maybe he had help?”
Elizabeth gasped.
“Gene! Two killers? Don’t put that out there!” she admonished, and that amused him.
He was to the point.
“If I don’t, and it happens, you’ll be cranky that I didn’t bring it up. I’m avoiding the melee for later.”
She snorted.
“Point made,” she admitted. “I would bust your balls about that.”
Oh, he was aware.
“Anyway, Ernie Kotile found the body, and the rule is if you found it, you might have left it, so I put him on the list. We’ll likely have to talk to him unless we can find something to eliminate him by morning.”
She knew he was right.
“Again, point made. We’ll be doing the bulk of our interviews, along with a morgue check-in tomorrow. Who is Hector?” she asked, pointing.
Gene clued her in.
“MATE sent the name of the funeral homeowner over,” he said. “Like you requested.”
She was curious.
“I asked for all the funeral homes,” she admitted, “not just one.”
MATE must have been listening because she popped in, and was sitting on the coffee table in front of them.
