Final Kill by Kate Bold

Author:Kate Bold [Bold, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2024-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

The wall of screens was bright and alive when Maggie walked back into the police station, and Barrett was barking out commands as the clock on the wall ticked its way toward midnight.

"Now, we've got a couple of blanks, but we just need to try to work around those. The footage that we're focusing on most closely is from the south and the west of the crime scene. The north has already been checked. We had officers monitoring that in real-time, as it was the closest camera to the previous scene." Barrett stared around, his eyes meeting the tired gazes of all the detectives on duty.

Taking a seat at the end of the row of tables, Maggie had a question.

“Have we been able to follow up on the original scene?” she asked. “Do we have any parameters for searching?”

Barrett nodded.

“I’ll update you. We received this information while you were out.”

Maggie listened intently as she and Jamie were briefed on the update.

"The van was traced. It was a driver who'd dropped off props at a film studio a few blocks away. He took a wrong turning while having an argument with his girlfriend. He was able to prove that. The homeless man appears in the footage two blocks away and disappears a few blocks on. We haven't found any sign of him or his cart. He could have disassembled it and tossed it away. There are a row of restaurants near the place where he disappeared. So the homeless man is now the most likely suspect, but we don’t have more. We’ve got researchers working on a possible height and weight, but it’s difficult with his clothing, and the fact he walked hunched over.”

“Preplanned,” Jamie muttered, as Maggie stared at the screens.

“He’ll pick something totally different this time,” she agreed. “But maybe we’ll get further if we try another angle.”

“And what angle is that?” Jamie asked.

“There are a couple of camera feeds that run right past that patisserie. Surely he had to watch the place? Maybe if we focus only on those two feeds, we could narrow it down that way.”

“Right,” Jamie said. “If we take this screen, right on the end here, we could look through those two feeds, a few days back, maybe?”

“Let’s do that.”

Opening her laptop, and getting out her notebook and pen, Maggie prepared to start her scrutiny.

Her concentration was briefly interrupted by the officer at the front desk, bustling through.

“There are a few media vans camped outside for the night. Some members of the public have joined them. I’m not sure if it’s a vigil or a protest, but I think someone should go out and speak to them.”

“As soon as we have time, I’ll head out,” Barrett snapped, wrenching his gaze away from the screen.

“And we’ve had a few false leads come through on the hotline,” the officer added.

“How many?” Barrett asked.

“About twenty,” the officer said. “We can rule out some of them. About ten. The others will need following up. They’re still not

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