Dark Heart by Kevin Flynn Rebecca Lavoie

Author:Kevin Flynn, Rebecca Lavoie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Good Cop

At the same time officials were holding their press conference in Chester, four plainclothes troopers from Major Crime—three men and one woman, all of them sergeants—were heading to Dover to follow up on their strongest lead. There they met up with a Dover Police Department detective with the plan of visiting Kat McDonough and Seth Mazzaglia at their apartment and talking with them some more.

Detective Jeff Ladieu called Kat’s cell and asked if he could come over to ask more questions about Lizzi Marriott’s disappearance. Kat told Ladieu neither she nor Seth was home because they were both at work in Newington. She said she would be meeting up with her boyfriend when he went on his break, and would be willing to meet with the detectives at Best Buy, where he worked. It was clear to the investigators that Kat didn’t want to talk to them unless Seth was with her.

The five officers took a pair of unmarked cruisers from Dover to the Newington Best Buy. Ladieu went into the store by himself and asked a worker where he could find Seth Mazzaglia. He was directed to the video game section of the store.

Ladieu introduced himself to Seth as a state police detective and asked if he could borrow some of Seth’s time to get more details about Lizzi Marriott’s whereabouts on the evening she was last heard from. Ladieu then asked Seth if he’d be willing to accompany him to the Newington police station to answer questions.

“How long do you think it will take?” Seth asked.

“I don’t know,” Ladieu said.

Ladieu noted that Seth remained calm and friendly, asking his store supervisor if he could leave early from work. Kat, whose job at Michaels was across the street, arrived at Best Buy as Ladieu and Seth were preparing to leave. They all walked out the front door together.

The investigators phoned ahead to the Newington Police Department and obtained clearance to use two of the department’s interview rooms for as long as they needed them.

Kat got into the car with Ladieu and Sergeant Sara Hennessey, the two officers who it had been decided beforehand would question Kat, while Seth got into the other car with Sergeants Joe Ebert and Brian Strong, who had been assigned to conduct his interrogation.

Seth said he recognized the third man in the car, Dover Detective Scott Pettingill.

“We met before,” he said to Pettingill, “I remember you from when I applied for a job at the Dover Police Department.”

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Seth sat at a large table in a second-floor conference room at the Newington PD. When the two-car caravan arrived at the department at around four P.M., he’d been escorted to the room along with NHSP Sergeants Ebert and Strong and Detective Pettingill. He had no opportunity to speak with Kat, as she’d been led to a separate room on the first floor of the department along with the other two state cops, Ladieu and Hennessey.

Seth’s back was to the room’s door, and as he looked

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