Milford Coal & Ice (Gwendolyn Strong Small Town Cozy Mystery Series Book 2) by J A Hoda

Author:J A Hoda [Hoda, J A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: All Things Investigative, LLC
Published: 2022-10-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

“Here is the spider chart for Antoinette and here is the chart for Andrew,” Erin says. She displays one on each of her oversized monitors. “Abe and I had to make the connections manually. For instance, who were the people who went to school with them? We used the school yearbooks to identify classmates. Were they on any teams or join any clubs in school? For example, Antoinette was in the drama club. We listed every high schooler that was in the club when she was.” All the lines disappear, except for the persons on the drama club purple spider web. “Then we took all those persons and determined if they were still alive.” She sorts by dead or alive, and fewer names are connected. “Next, we ran them through my social aggregator programs, and finally Newspaper Archives. Each living person who might have known her through the drama club has a dossier color coded in purple.”

Erin clicks through each drama club dossier in alphabetical order. She stops on one person in particular. “Here’s Joan Kane. She is seventy-nine years old, graduated the same year as Antoinette, so she has purple, blue, and red lines designating she was a classmate from the same graduating class. Looking at the archives, we see that she was in Antoinette’s bridal party.” A grainy newspaper captioned notice of Andrew and Antoinette’s wedding announcement pops up on the screen.

Abe says, “I took each member of the wedding party designated as a blue line that appears in both Andrew and Antoinette’s spider charts and did the same as Erin with the social aggregator programs and the archives program. Erin, please show them names common to both Andrew and Antoinette.” She does. He points to the new spider chart. “This yellow line is identical for both of them, but you can see other people from other colored lines that were in both of their worlds.”

Erin says, “We only had to do the input once, then the CaseSoft program created the lines and filled in half the dossiers. Joan Kane is still alive, living in the senior center here in town. There are four other people there that knew either Andrew or Antoinette.” Erin sorts by street address and the others appear.

I’m impressed. What seemed an impossible task is broken down into manageable steps. “What is this line?” I ask.

Erin says, “These are people that lived near the Bidwells on West Main Street when they were first married and then the people that lived next to them on Elm Street.”

“Why does this man have an asterisk next to his name?” I ask.

Abe and Erin share a look. Erin clicks on his dossier and takes a deep breath. “The good news is that he is dead. Johnny Murphy. He died in prison forty-one years ago. He was a sexual predator who victimized women from here to Florida before he got caught.”

“I knew his family,” Emelina says. “They were devastated.”

“By what he had done or by his death?” I ask.

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