False Truth 10 (Jordan Fox Mysteries Series) by Diane Capri & Beth Dexter

Author:Diane Capri & Beth Dexter [Capri, Diane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AugustBooks
Published: 2017-10-12T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Jordan pulled out her phone and found the screen shot of the results of the facial recognition work from Tom’s software. She handed the phone to Ryser. “First, look at this.”

Ryser glanced at the screenshot. “That’s Diaz. I recognize the photo from your drone practice video you showed us. Who’s the kid?”

“His name is Mark Gifford.” Jordan pulled the elastic aside, opened the redwell and pulled out her mom’s yearbook. Riverside Middle School Footsteps 2006. She flipped quickly to the soccer team pages. She passed the yearbook to Ryser and pointed to the photo she’d used for the face recognition.

Ryser studied the photos for what seemed like an eternity. Jordan wanted to jump in and point out the similarities between the boy and the man like she’d done with Tom. But she held her tongue. Ryser did this for a living. She knew what to look for.

If Ryser saw the same thing Jordan had seen, then Jordan would be forever satisfied that she was right. Mark Gifford had become Hugo Diaz. So far, so good.

Ryser emailed the screen shot photo to an FBI mailbox somewhere. Then she returned the phone and looked at Jordan with real interest for the first time today. “What else do you have in there?”

Yes! Jordan wanted to fist-pump the air, but she pulled the elastic and opened the redwell. She found the two photos she’d placed right in the front and the autopsy report.

Steady, Jordan. Be objective. Pretend it’s not your mom. You’ve seen this photo enough. Pretend you’re desensitized.

“This one shows the floor under her body in the kitchen. Crime scene techs took the photo after she was moved.” She pointed to a quarter. In the photograph, based on the outline of the body inside the blood on the floor, the quarter seemed to have been lying under Brenda Fox’s torso. There was an evidence flag next to it in the photo. “The quarter had a partial thumb print on one side and a partial forefinger print on the other. The prints were unidentified at the time, but did not belong to me or my parents.”

“So the detectives concluded the quarter dropped out of a pocket during the struggle or something and the prints belong to one of the killers. Could be.” Ryser nodded. She reached for the photo. She studied it closely and laid it to one side on her desktop. “What else?”

“This is the autopsy report. These two paragraphs.” Jordan pointed and handed the report to Ryser. “It says the medical examiner removed skin and blood from under the victim’s fingernails. The DNA was tested, but didn’t match anyone they compared it to at the time. Not my dad, for sure.”

“Since this DNA hasn’t been submitted to the databases I checked, we may be able to run it now. We could get a hit. There’s a lot more DNA samples in our systems now than we had five years ago. Better collection and testing techniques, too. Sometimes we get lucky.” Ryser had finished scanning the report and cocked her head.

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