Voodoo, Victims & Vows by Colleen Mooney

Author:Colleen Mooney [Mooney, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781733738743
Publisher: New Orleans Fast Dog Publishing
Published: 2020-05-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

We enjoyed the balcony, music, and the food while we waited for the Po-Boy festival to end so Taylor could meet Hanky to follow the bus that was supposed to pick up Felicia and pals.

“We have nothing to hold them on,” Taylor said. “I’d like to know where they are staying. It would be helpful to find the manager, Tarek, or his last name, or whoever runs that outfit. We can run a check on them to see if they’re wanted anywhere.”

“Well, I’m starting to think they are guilty of knowing something about what happened to Shannon Flanagan,” I said. “I bet Felicia has a good idea who did it.”

“Why?” Jiff asked, bringing back a round of beers for him and Taylor and a glass of wine for me.

“We know Shannon was left in Biloxi alive because Q Ball gave her a ride to New Orleans, and she worked at Scream Fest. Maybe she ran into the manager and asked for her money, but wouldn’t they just blow her off?”

“They would unless she had something on them,” Jiff said.

“Maybe we’re confusing the two girls. Maybe Shannon got to New Orleans and got into some dark stuff, like voodoo practitioners. Q Ball said that was why she wanted to see New Orleans. I’m starting to think the one they are nervous about is that gal named Charlene, and we don’t know a thing about her.”

“That’s why I’d like to catch them on something, so we can get a warrant to search whoever’s in charge with this magazine outfit,” Taylor said. “Then we can get warrants for banking forensics.”

“Their organization could be putting workers in life-threatening situations leaving them in cities with no money,” Jiff said. “The real crime is once they move to another city, we don’t have jurisdiction to follow up or arrest them. As long as they are committing non-violent crimes, there’s nothing we can do.”

“I know, but if they are legal age and it’s in a contract they signed with the worker, it might be unethical but it’s not illegal, unfortunately,” Taylor said. “Unless they are underage or they’re keeping these workers against their will. Lydia is clearly afraid of something or someone.”

“Finding the person who knew Shannon, and who will talk to us might be a better place to focus our attention. That person might know more about what happened to Shannon with the magazine people and might know something about this Charlene girl. The roommate, if she found another one after staying with Q Ball, could tell us more about Shannon’s movements closer to the time of the murder. The coroner said she was dead before going in the bayou,” I said. “We don’t know where she was living or with who at the time of her death.”

“Uniforms started to canvas the area along the bayou to see if anyone recognized her in the neighborhood,” Taylor said, after reading a message on his cell phone.

“The two people Brandy saw in the fog rode off toward De Saix Boulevard,” Jiff said.

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