She's saying the man looked like Dean. It had to be his dad.
"What did the truck look like? Do you remember?"
"It was black."
"Like a pick-up? Open in the back?"
She nods.
"Did it look new?"
She shakes her head.
"Tammy, get inside!" her grandma yells. "Right now!"
"I have to go." She runs off, then turns back, smiling. "It had a Barbie sticker on the window!"
Barbie sticker? What is she talking about?
"Brook, what the hell?" Danny yells, getting out of the truck. "Let's go!"
I race back to the truck and get inside.
Danny takes off. "Why were you talking to that kid?"
"She saw Dean's dad here this morning. She said he was driving a pickup. We have to tell the cops."
"How does she know it was him? She's never met him."
"She said she saw a man who looked like Dean. Do Dean and his dad look alike?"
"Yeah. His dad's just an older version of Dean."
"Then it had to be him the little girl saw."
"She said he had a pickup?"
"Yeah, a black one. Sounds like she's the only one who saw it. Her grandma was in the house."
"Did she say anything else?"
"Just something about a sticker. I don't know what she meant."
"What kind of sticker?"
"A Barbie sticker. She must've made it up. I doubt there was a Barbie sticker on the truck."
"Maybe it was one of those naked lady stickers. You know the kind you see on mud flaps?"
"Huh. Maybe." I pause to think. "But they don't really look like a Barbie."
"They kind of do, especially to a kid. The long legs and big boobs? It's like a Barbie."
"If that's what she meant, that would help the cops find the car. There can't be that many black pickups with one of those stickers on the window."
"Call the cop back and tell him."
I get out my phone and call him, telling him what I found out. I finish just as Danny pulls up to the hospital.
