Murder Book by 2023

Author:2023
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Epub3
Publisher: Penzler Publishers

22

Duncan used a new burner phone to make the call at three in the afternoon. He dialed, listened to the female-sounding machine voice, and then punched in the five-digit extension and waited. He knew that the wait at this hour might be a long time, because it was the part of the afternoon when important people had meetings or worked at things that required intense concentration.

He set the phone on speaker, plugged in the charger, set it down on the hotel room’s table, and then returned his attention to the pictures and notations he had printed in the business center downstairs. He had already copied the photographs and videos he had taken on his phones to the laptop and then thumb drives, so the US Attorney could send them to whomever she pleased, but the paper copies of things were what he was counting on. She, or her deputies, wouldn’t be going to court with any of this stuff. Probably all of it would have to be verified, and much of it duplicated, by the FBI investigation before charges were filed. But the text and pictures he had produced, together with the reports of the Indiana State Police and the Parkman’s Elbow PD, made an impressive display. The physical murder book would be much harder to ignore than the digital version.

The phone on the table said, “You’ve reached me. Identify yourself.”

“Hello,” Duncan said. “It’s me.”

“I’m surprised to hear from you during business hours.”

“Sorry. I know how busy you must be, but I need to give you the information I’ve got. I’ll hand it over any time that’s convenient for you. I’m in Chicago right now, and I can be at your office in fifteen minutes.”

“I’ve told you what I’ll need. If you’ve got it, send it to me. I’ll have my assistant give you an email address that was set up just for this purpose, and she’ll shut it down afterward.”

“Some of it is in digital form, but much of it isn’t. I’ll need to deliver it in person. You can do what you want with it after you’ve seen it. I think you’re going to want to hand it over to the FBI to get them going, but that’s your decision.”

“Yes, it is. You sound as though you feel your investigation is finished, and you’ve reached a conclusion.”

“My conclusion is still what I told you before. Yes, there is a group, made up mostly of small-time professional criminals, recruited and hired to move into the small towns along the Ash River in Indiana and try to build themselves into a crime syndicate. They’ve started with extortion because it brings in steady money and gives them a chance to scare the populace.”

“And you have enough evidence and enough information so I could go into a courtroom and convict some people.”

“In my opinion, you will when you have what I’m going to give you. I have names and photographs of both living members and dead ones. I’ve traced and documented their

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