Sedona Law 6: A Legal Thriller by Dave Daren

Author:Dave Daren [Daren, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“We still don’t have anything concrete to go on,” AJ said. “A lot of loose ends that look suspicious.”

Vicki, AJ and I sat around our conference room, sipping coffee. This was our checkpoint meeting. A lot of times when these big cases got too muddled, we’d whiteboard out everything we knew to find out where to go with it.

AJ was at the whiteboard, and she was great at that mind mapping technique. Clouds, arrows, and multi-colored words. It worked for her, but I was more of a lists and bullet points in black kind of guy.

“What do we know?” I said.

“We know that Kelsi was arrested the day after James’ death because she was found to have elephant tusks in her backyard.”

She drew a quick elephant with a frowning face.

“That looks like the Republican elephant,” Vicki said.

“I know,” AJ said. “It’s an easy way to draw it.”

I scanned the original police report. A lot of times when we did these meetings, we would go back to the original source material and ask ourselves questions we already knew.

“And they knew this about the elephant tusks because...” I prompted.

“Because elephant tusks started showing up on the black market, and there was a tip from Irwin Montague that Kelsi was his supplier. And then they found tusk in her backyard.”

“And they know it wasn’t James’, or a plant because of the airline tag on the suitcase it was clearly smuggled into,” Vicki supplied.

“Right,” AJ said.

“So allegedly, “Vicki said. “While these tusks were in her backyard shed, James dies on local television.”

“Yeah,” AJ said. “What’s up with that? Did we ever find a cause of death on that?”

“We got the coroner’s report by accident,” I said. “But in the end, it’s not our circus, not our monkeys,” I said.

“Or our elephants,” AJ laughed at her own corny joke.

“Ugh,” Vicki threw a wadded up piece of paper at her and she laughed and dodged it.

“But we actually do think that the death and smuggling are related,” AJ clarified.

“We think that,” I said. “But we have no real reason to believe it. So we have to leave that part out for now.”

She drew a tombstone in the top corner with the name James, and a big question mark.

“We also know the whole band had just come back from Africa,” I said. “Where James had had a secret donation meeting with a wildlife charity.”

“Did we ever investigate them?” Vicki asked.

“I looked into them a little bit,” I said. “From what I can tell, they’re all on the up and up.”

“Let’s look further into them,” Vicki said. “I don’t like them.”

“I’ll do that,” AJ said, and she jotted it down on her own notepad.

“Then there’s the guys in the band,” I said.

“Roy,” I said. “The manager.”

“Ugh,” AJ said. “That guy gives me pervy creeps.”

She drew a stick figure in a t-shirt and labeled it ‘Roy.’

“Roy has had a fling with Kelsi,” I said. “Used to manage her when she was younger. He also had a five year contract with James that he appears to have had no intention of honoring.

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