Her Final Confession by Lisa Regan

Author:Lisa Regan [Regan, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786816436
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Gretchen had given Detective Heather Loughlin a hand-written confession. It was terse, the handwriting a scrawl. Josie knew Gretchen’s handwriting—it was usually neat and precise. Josie could practically feel the tension and desperation oozing from the hastily written words. She and Noah read it over while Loughlin sipped coffee and Chitwood paced near the head of the table. When they were finished with it, Josie handed it to Chitwood, who barely glanced at it.

Josie asked Loughlin, “Do you believe her?”

Loughlin shrugged. “It doesn’t matter what I believe. She confessed. She had an answer for everything.”

Chitwood tossed the pages onto the table, and Noah picked them up once more. “She says she met Omar in Philadelphia a few years ago. That’s pretty vague.”

“A few years ago, Omar wasn’t even in Philadelphia,” Josie said. “He lived in Idaho and did his undergrad in Indiana. He started at Drexel after Gretchen had already left Philadelphia to come work here.”

“So what?” Chitwood said. “She had friends in Philadelphia. Maybe she met him when she went back to visit. Maybe she’s got her timeline mixed up, and she saw him last summer.”

Josie was fairly certain Gretchen had not been back to Philadelphia since her move to Denton, even for a visit, but she had no way of proving that, so she kept quiet. Instead she asked Loughlin, “Where did Gretchen say they met?”

“Jogging along the Schuylkill—he was jogging, not her. She says he bumped into her and knocked her down. She hit her head. He helped her get up, find a bench, and sit. They talked, and when he found out she was a cop, he had all kinds of questions about the job. She had a headache and didn’t feel like talking, so she gave him her number and said he could call her any time if he had questions about police work.”

“That’s pretty thin,” Josie said.

Loughlin shrugged. “I have no reason to disbelieve her, although her story about him being interested in her position as a police officer seems like just that—a story. I don’t know that she’s telling the truth about how they knew one another. But she says he tracked her down here, and she felt threatened by him, especially by the fact that he had driven two hours to her home.”

“What did she say the altercation was about?” Noah asked. “All this says is she asked him to leave multiple times, and he refused and became combative.”

Josie looked over his shoulder at the confession again. It was written in the broadest and vaguest terms possible.

“She says for some reason he had become obsessed with her. She doesn’t know why and said she doesn’t believe it was a sexual thing, but that him showing up at her home without an invitation felt very intrusive and threatening. She says he’d been harassing her by phone for two weeks.”

Josie remembered that the phone records from Gretchen’s phone showed only two calls from Omar’s number to hers. That hardly constituted harassment.

“If she thought

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