Nine Lives by Kevin McManus

Author:Kevin McManus
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Sharpe Books
Published: 2018-11-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11: Emotional Weather Report

Tuesday 24th November 2009

Mayfield Street Precinct

8:30 AM

Harper, Woods and Logue were sitting in the conference room waiting for Callaghan to arrive. She was half an hour late and wasn’t picking up her phone. Harper had called her a dozen times and every time, it went to voicemail. After waiting impatiently for a further ten minutes, Harper looked at Woods and said, “Let’s start.”

As Woods passed out the updated files, Callaghan burst through the door and said, “I am sorry I am late. Woke up late and then got caught in the traffic.”

Logue gave her a knowing smile as she rounded the table to sit next to Harper.

“So, guys. How you all doing?” Callaghan asked.

“Waiting for you,” Woods sniped.

“Ha, very funny Woods,” Callaghan responded.

As Woods passed another file to Callaghan, Harper made the introductions.

“Ray, this is John Woods. He’s our resident geek. He searches for people who don’t want to be found and then presents them to us in all their glory. John, this is Detective Ray Logue. He has come all the way from Ireland to lend us a hand in this case.”

They shook hands and then Woods nodded at Harper to begin.

“Yesterday, after you guys went to see Lea Winerman, I asked John to research that Irish guy, Donal Keane, you told us about, Ray. The boy wonder here I think has been very successful and has built up a useful profile on Mr. Keane. He appears to be the one and only suspect so far in our case. John found a man who matches our suspect’s description, but since we don’t know much about him, I was hoping Ray could fill us in.”

Logue picked up the file and started to read it. After five minutes he gave his observation.

“It all seems to fit the timeframe and it corresponds with what my superintendent told me. According to this, Donal Keane was born in Boston on May second, 1955. His parents were Irish, his father was Joseph Keane and his mother’s maiden name was Susan Power. The family moved back to Galway in 1961. What’s interesting is that right after the first murder happened in 1979, Donal returned to Boston. I think he was fleeing the scene of the crime but that’s just a hunch. For all we know, he might not even be the killer.”

“What was the first victim’s name again?” Harper asked.

Callaghan looked at the file and said, “Hazel Deveraux.”

“Ray, is there a connection between her and Donal Keane or Frank Rudden?” Harper asked.

“I don’t think so. Well, Jim Mulcahy wasn’t able to find one in 1979 and due to the lack of evidence, the case was closed,” Logue responded.

“Can I just get in here for a moment?” Woods said raising his hand in the air like a schoolboy eager to please.

“I traced Donal Keane’s tax records and that’s when I hit the mother lode. When he first arrived In Boston in ‘79 he got a job in the sorting room in a post office.

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