Tell Me by Anne Frasier

Author:Anne Frasier [Frasier, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller
ISBN: 9781542025560
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2021-07-26T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

That night, Reni returned home with a plan to spend several hours online investigating. Sometimes that could be just as or more effective than legwork. She took a shower, then got into bed with her laptop, Edward curled beside her. She logged in to the homicide department’s database to see if anything new had been added to the files. There were a couple of interviews with employees of Kaleidoscope that she read and flagged so Daniel would know she’d seen them. Nothing that seemed of merit, at least not yet. Then she checked her email. Her heart sped up when she saw a message from her artist friend who did age progression. It included a JPEG.

Alice Vargas would have been about fifty-five now, and the attached drawing depicted her with shoulder-length hair, a touch of gray, a fatter face, smaller eyes, pinched mouth, slight jowls.

Age progression was a fairly broad supposition. A could be. A might be. Some drawings ended up being remarkably accurate; others were horribly off, bearing little similarity to the person today. Weight, stress, heredity, health—they all played a part. Of special note? This drawing was substantially different from the ones Reni had seen before.

She returned to the current case and visited Emerson Rose’s Facebook page. Not a lot there, and it looked as if she hadn’t been active on it for a few years. Same with Portia and JoJo. She visited the page of Deidra Lundy, the girl who’d posted the social media video of the murder scene. No recent activity there either. The page for the boyfriend, Jordan Rice, was private, so she couldn’t see much. Reni had a bad feeling about them both.

From Facebook she went to Reddit and requested to join the Victims of School Shootings group Emerson belonged to. She’d have to wait for approval. She checked out Portia’s and JoJo’s YouTube pages, subscribed, and clicked the bell to be notified by phone of new content. Then, feeling as if she’d earned a little time away from the missing persons case, she logged into a fake Facebook profile she sometimes used. She could never have gotten away with the somewhat unscrupulous behavior when she was an FBI agent, but now she had more freedom.

She updated and tweaked her profile with interests and hobbies that suited the persona most likely to get her approved by the groups she wanted to access. Hobbies of sewing and crafts. Sewing was her only real lead. If Daniel’s mother was still alive, and Reni leaned toward her being dead, she could be anywhere in or out of the country.

She searched seamstress groups and requested to join all she could find. Most of the Facebook sewing groups seemed a trusting bunch who didn’t require approval from a real person. After replying to a few questions, she was accepted automatically.

Her plan was to go through member profile images and see if she could find a face that looked similar to the sketch her friend had come up with. A tedious process, but tedium was at the center of all private investigator work.

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