Jack in the Box (A Dead Cold Mystery Book 16) by Blake Banner

Author:Blake Banner [Banner, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-27T23:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

Next morning the deputy inspector agreed to give us a couple of officers to work methodically through murders reported in Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut and New York during the period 2014 to 2016, in which the victim was badly mutilated and in particular where decapitation was involved.

While they set to on their task, we got hold of the telephone records for Penelope, Connors Communication and Grant Shaw, for the month of October, 2014. As it turned out, we did not need to request them because the original investigating detective had already done that and they were in the file.

I sighed at the discovery and shook my head at Dehan. “When are you going to start thoroughly digesting the file before we start our investigation, Dehan?”

“When you start setting good examples for me, Sensei.”

She made a second copy at the photocopier, dropped a wad of papers in front of me and we set about examining them.

The first thing we looked for was the call Jack received on Thursday, October 7th, at around one PM. It wasn’t there on his office phone, but it was there on his cell. It came through at twelve fifty. The only problem was, it wasn’t Penelope’s number. It was a number I was not familiar with.

I looked at Dehan across the desk. “He got the call on his cell at ten minutes before one, but it wasn’t from her.”

She nodded. “I’m looking at it, but go back a bit. This number calls him on a regular basis. The previous evening at six PM. The previous morning at eleven and then again at one. The day before that it called him… one, two… four times. And the day before…” She leafed through several pages. “Every damn day.”

I turned over a couple of pages to Sunday and Saturday. “Weekends too.”

We stared at each other a moment. She said, “He can’t have had two women going at that level of intensity…”

I was shaking my head, reading her thoughts. “But it’s not two, because, where are her calls?”

I reached for her records and Dehan did the same. “Son of a gun.”

I nodded. “It’s her. She changed her damned number after he was killed.”

Dehan was on her phone. I stood and went to look out the window, trying to think. I could hear Dehan’s voice behind me. “…Detective Carmen Dehan, NYPD, I have an inquiry… No it doesn’t require a court order. I just need to know about a number…” She recited Penelope’s current number. “It’s registered to a Penelope Peach. I need to know when she acquired the number…” She waited a moment, then said, “Thanks,” and hung up.

I turned to face her.

“Friday, October 8th. Whatever else she is, she ain’t smart.”

“You got that right. Listen, I’m going to talk to her. I want to know why she lied about calling him, what they talked about and what happened after she called. I might bring her in…”

She was frowning at me. “Stone, this is very incriminating. We need to interrogate her.”

“I know, but let me talk to her first, Dehan.

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