Outside the Law by Carsen Taite

Author:Carsen Taite [Taite, Carsen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635550405
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2018-03-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Tanner led Dale and Mary back to one of the conference rooms at the FBI field office and shut the door behind them. “Thanks for coming out here to do this.”

Mary slid into a seat. “Happy to accommodate, but would you care to let us in on the secret? What is the this that we’re here to do?”

Tanner motioned for Dale to join them at the table. “You remember what I said last week about the 302s that Bianca found in Gellar’s office? I’ve been doing some digging to find out the name of the agent who wrote them up.”

“Isn’t the name of the agent supposed to be typed on the form?”

“It should be, but whoever filled these out signed them instead.” She fished some papers out of a folder she’d carried into the room and set them on the table between Dale and Mary. “See here.” She pointed. “Can you make that out?”

“Looks like my doctor signed it,” Dale said. “How are you supposed to figure out who it is? And what happened to your theory that Gellar wrote the forms himself?”

“I’ve abandoned that idea for now. He’s got to have someone lined up to testify if the case goes to court, and I’m going to find that person using good old-fashioned detective work. I started scouring case records to see if there were any other 302s in the office with handwritten signatures instead of typed ones.”

“And?” Mary asked.

“No luck. Then I looked for handwritten case notes, but no luck. That doesn’t necessarily mean anything since we’re supposed to memorialize everything with a typed 302 to stay consistent, but I thought maybe whoever did this had a penchant for his or her own handwriting.”

“The suspense is killing me,” Dale said dryly. “Get to the point, Cohen.”

“I didn’t find any case notes, but I did some snooping and came across three agents whose handwriting might be close to the one on the form. They’re coming in, one by one, to talk to us today. We’ll find a way to figure out which one of them wrote up the 302.”

“And then what?” Dale asked. “We accuse them of working with the US attorney to prosecute a case? Newsflash—that’s the way the job works.”

“Ease off. Give her a chance to tell us what she’s got planned,” Mary said. “You do have a plan, don’t you Tanner?”

“Sure,” Tanner lied. “Mostly. I plan to ask each one point-blank if they authored the report, and when we find the one that did, tell him/her that we’re following up on some leads generated by their investigation and we wanted to know if there were any impressions not included in the report that they could share with us. Also, I plan to gently remind them to type their name legibly on the report for official reference.”

“If the report is fabricated, you really think the agent who wrote it is going to admit they wrote it?”

“No, but I do think three well-trained federal agents should be able to tell when someone is lying and convince them it’s in their best interest to tell the truth.

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