The Jaxon Jennings Series by Richard C Hale

Author:Richard C Hale
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Three Thirty A.M. Publishing

12

AS THEY HEADED East, Jaxon got on his cell phone and called Victoria.

“I was just about to call you,” she said.

“You won’t believe what we’ve been through.”

He filled her in on the morning’s events and told her where they were headed and what Ray had suggested.

“I think it’s something we should consider. Has anybody popped into that head of yours that might be capable of something like this?”

“There’s a shit load of people who would want me suffering, but nobody who’s this sick. At least who’s not in jail.”

“Maybe I should check and see if anybody you put away is out on early release.”

“Good idea. Nobody told us we’d have to watch our backs for the rest of our lives as a result of being cops. Nice perk.”

“I messed up,” Vick said then, and he heard her own disappointment.

“What’s wrong?”

“The Bethany Hope we were investigating is not the Bethany who’s missing.”

“I take it you’ve found the one who’s missing.”

“Yes.”

“Then how is that a mess up? That should help us.”

“I know, but I should’ve had this yesterday. When I was going through the Florida list, I called all the phone numbers and asked for Bethany Hope. I talked to each and every one. Or so I thought. There are two Bethany Hopes in a single household in Palm Beach.”

“How can that be?”

“One is the grandmother, the one I spoke with. The other is a twenty-five year old nurse who was named after her grandmother.”

“I would’ve missed that too,” Jaxon said. “Don’t beat yourself up over it.”

“I know. I just shouldn’t have missed it. I usually catch those details.”

“How did you find the mistake?”

“The Bethany Hope in Georgia came home. She spent the night in Savannah with a friend. Then I went back to our list in Florida because I had a feeling I missed something and there it was. Grandma and granddaughter were listed right next to each other and I thought it was just a duplicate result in the search.”

“I think it was a good catch. Anything that might help us?”

“Yes. Couple of interesting red flags that pop up in her life. She’s engaged to a Dirk Samuels and he is also missing according to the grandmother. He hadn’t been over to the house in a few days and Bethany was wondering where he was.”

“Could they have eloped or something and this is another false positive?”

“I don’t know. I’ve considered it, but this next little tidbit is very interesting. As a teenager in high school, she was part of a group of teens that bullied another girl and that girl eventually committed suicide. It was a big scandal eight years ago in the community, but Bethany was never charged with anything and the thing just kind of blew over.”

“What about the parents of the suicide?”

“Both dead. The father died when the girl was young. The mother killed herself shortly after her daughter committed suicide.”

“Nice.”

“Yes. Pretty tragic. I’m still working all the angles, but nothing is jumping out at me.”

“How about some pissed off boyfriend back eight years ago, or some relative?”

“Checking all that now.

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