Her Last Breath (A Rachel Gift FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 6) by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2022-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Rachel was right. She was able to find a list of all inmates that had been executed over the course of the last thirty years. It was a short list, as there were only a total of five people that had bene executed in Maryland, and none of those had been in the past twenty years or so. This stumped her for a moment, so she started to wonder if there was somehow an execution at the core of the entire case in another state.

She thought of her home state, Virginia. She knew Virginia had the third highest number of state-mandated executions in the country until the death penalty was abolished in 2021. And because Murphy’s Crossing and Annapolis were both close enough to Virginia, she thought it might be worth a look. So she did some digging and was also able to find a list of Virginia’s executed inmates, and there were considerably more than what she’d found for Maryland. There were twenty-eight names over the span of the last ten years. She wasn’t able to tell which manner of capital punishment was doled out, though…electric chair or lethal injection.

As she printed the list out, Rachel leaned back in her chair and sipped from a cup of super strong coffee from the precinct breakroom. While waiting for the printer to spit out the paper, a small knock came to the edge of the tiny office they’d been using yesterday.

She turned and found Angelica looking in, the ever-so-helpful young woman that had been such a blessing the day before.

“Good morning, Angelica,” Rachel said.

“Good morning to you. I heard you and Agent Rivers were trying to find some names. Is there anything I can do to help?”

“Oh, there’s plenty.” Rachel took the paper from the printer and sat it on the small bit of space beside the laptop. “I’m trying to find out if any of these names were active gang members when they were arrested.”

“I can cross reference that all for you,” Angelica said.

“Great. That would be amazing. And also,” she said, showing Angelica her sticky note from earlier, “whenever we can get a call through to the governor’s office, I’d like to see a list of all of the parolees that Emma Stern worked with during the course of her career.”

“Oh, that should be easy,” Angelica said, taking the sticky note and pressing it against the printed list. “I’ll shoot an email and call. Anything else?”

“No. I may actually help with that list and cross referencing,” she said. “We got a pretty hot tip and if it turns out to be legit, whether or not we can pull a name from that list could be a very big deal.”

“Sure, anything you need. How about Agent Rivers? Does he need anything?”

Before Rachel could answer, Jack appeared in the doorway, looking in. “No, thank you,” he said. “Agent Rivers is perfectly fine.” Then, eyeing Rachel, he said, “Do you mind if I take control of your laptop for a second. I found something I think you need to see.

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