Love Remains by Kaye Dacus

Author:Kaye Dacus [Dacus, Kaye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60742-199-3
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2010-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

At ten o’clock Friday morning, Bobby ushered the two agents assigned to his case into his office, followed shortly thereafter by the unit’s forensic accountant.

The time had come to discuss Zarah with his team.

He handed folders to the two men and one woman now sitting in the chairs they’d rolled in from the furniture storage closet next door. Four people in his tiny office made it nearly claustrophobic, but he didn’t want to do this out on the floor where anyone could hear their conjectures, suspicions, and conclusions.

Bobby quickly went through the relevant details of Zarah’s life: born in Georgia when her father was stationed at Fort Benning. Had lived in four different states and two foreign countries by the time she graduated from high school in New Mexico. Finished her BA in history at Vanderbilt in three years, then her master’s and PhD in historic preservation at James Robertson University by the time she was twenty-five. Started working at the Middle Tennessee Historic Preservation Commission part-time when she was a graduate student, full-time after she finished her doctorate. Taught history as an adjunct professor at both the community college and JRU every semester since finishing school herself. Had been promoted to assistant director and senior preservationist two years ago.

“Now that you know the basics, I’ll turn this over to Jill so she can review the financial records for us.”

“Thanks.” The middle-aged woman scooted forward in her seat. “If you’ll turn to page ten of the dossier, you’ll see my summary of Mitchell’s financial records. There are a couple of unusual findings, though nothing irregular that I could find.”

Bobby flipped to that page of the report, though he almost had it memorized by now.

“Dr. Mitchell has an unusually large life insurance policy for someone so young who is unmarried and has no children. That, combined with the fact that it’s a term policy that will expire before she’s sixty leads me to wonder why she would have chosen such a policy.

“Next, you’ll see that she has a very large savings account—in addition to a few other large investment products, like CDs and money market accounts. From what I can tell, there have been no unusual or one-time large deposits to these accounts—but what is she socking away all this money for? She purchased a house five years ago. She paid off her car more than eight years ago. She paid off a twenty-year student loan in less than eight years.”

Jill dipped her head and looked at Bobby over the rim of her readers. “If I didn’t know any better, I’d think I’m looking at the financial records of someone who was putting her affairs in order.”

“What do you mean? Affairs in order for what?” Gage, the younger of the two agents, asked the forensic accountant.

Instead of answering the young man, Jill kept her gaze on Bobby. “There’s something going on in this woman’s life to lead her to believe that she needs to get everything wrapped up before she’s forty years old—because she’s on track to have her house paid off by then.

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