Kiss & Tell by Luke Murphy

Author:Luke Murphy [Murphy, Luke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781775375920
Publisher: ANM Books
Published: 2018-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

Book III

Motive

Chapter 20

Berry and Clayton had confiscated boxes of material from Anderson’s home and were sifting through the documents in the back room when Charlene arrived at the office Tuesday morning. They were also going through the contents taken from Anderson’s office, but so far nothing of significance had been found.

Alberto Bianchi’s file sat on Charlene’s desk. The folder was thick with hunches and possibilities. Bianchi was involved, allegedly, in a lot of schemes, including the gambling ring, but not murder. This didn’t feel like a mob hit to Charlene, but she wasn’t about to eliminate anyone at this point.

Larry still wasn’t in, so Charlene looked through the Bianchi file herself and found something interesting. She buzzed Dennis Watson in Vice.

“Dennis, it’s Charlene.”

“Did you get the file, Detective?”

“Yeah, thanks. It says here that Bianchi has a daughter.”

“That’s right, allegedly.”

“What does that mean?” Charlene sat back in her chair.

“Well, rumor has it that Bianchi knocked up some New Yorker when he was seventeen. His old man, embarrassed and outraged by the whole thing, paid the woman to disappear and shipped her to the West coast. When Bianchi was old enough, his pop sent him out here to be closer to his daughter. But since Bianchi arrived, over fifteen years ago, no one has seen proof of a daughter or a woman that age hanging around. We don’t even have a picture. She could be any twenty-seven-year-old walking the street.”

“Who’s the mother?”

“Don’t know that either. Bianchi’s father went to great lengths to keep it a secret.”

“So you have no idea who our missing women are, mother or daughter?”

“Like I said, Detective, we don’t even know the mother’s name or if a daughter even exists. It’s all speculation and hearsay. The mother could have remarried. The daughter might be using her step-father’s name or her mother’s maiden name. In all honesty, we don’t even know if Bianchi’s daughter knows who her real father is.”

“What about the FBI? Do you think they have any idea?”

He chuckled aloud. “Even if they did have that information, they certainly wouldn’t share it with us.”

“Thanks, Dennis.”

Charlene hung up, wondering if Bianchi’s daughter was in Anderson’s black book. There would be no way to know, without DNA samples, and the department didn’t have the funds, or the time, to test every woman in the book.

She quickly picked the phone back up and tried the phone number left in her apartment by the anonymous Fed.

No dice, number disconnected. Charlene slammed the phone down.

It had been four days since Anderson’s murder. Charlene found the Investigating Officer’s Chronological Report on Larry’s desk and looked through it. Larry had all the bases covered.

She went over again what they had on the Anderson murder, the facts looping around in her head relentlessly. Who benefited the most from the professor’s death?

Jessica Philips was having an affair with the victim. Anderson refused to leave his wife, knowing that his marriage into one of the richest families in America had its advantages, but not enough to keep him from cheating.

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