A Deadly Game by Catherine Crier

Author:Catherine Crier [Crier, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, True Crime, Murder
ISBN: 9780061915567
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-09-11T04:00:00+00:00

In San Diego, Grogan dialed the Petersons.

“Lee, I caught a flight today, and I’m down here in San Diego,” Grogan told Scott’s father. “There’s something I want to talk to you about, I think it might be upsetting to Jackie. I didn’t want to just drop by. We haven’t found Laci or anything like that, but I was hoping that maybe I could meet with you for a few minutes, and then you could decide on how best to handle it with Jackie. Do you think that would work?”

“Urn, yeah, I suppose, can you tell me about it?” Lee inquired.

The men arranged to meet at Einstein Bros. Bagels at Lomas and Santa Fe by the freeway.

“What is this all about?” Lee Peterson asked the two detectives seated at the table in the bagel shop.

“When Scott came in with you a while back, I showed him a photo that was sent to us, and it’s a photograph of him and another girl,” Grogan started.

“What?” Lee exclaimed. “And what circumstances?”

“Well,” Grogan said, pushing the photos across the table to Scott’s father.

“Well, how old are these? Who is this?”

“We’ve talked to her. Those photographs were taken this Christmas. So it was taken on December … ”

Stunned, Lee interrupted. “This Christmas?”

“It was taken December 14 of this year,” Grogan explained.

“Where are they taken?”

“She lives in the Fresno area, and it was on the day when Scott said he was meeting his boss in San Francisco,” Grogan said.

“How did you get these?” Lee asked.

“Well, we talked to the girl, and she gave us this photo,” Grogan said. “This is a function that they went to together. She sent out this photograph of her and Scott in some Christmas cards to other people. I don’t know how many photos are out there, but my concern is that you and Jackie were going to see one of these in the paper. Now I know you’re probably thinking, can you believe me or not, and am I trying to put something over on you or something like that. All I can tell you, sir, is that I give you my word that those are the circumstances.”

Again Lee Peterson interrupted. “Did she volunteer these or … ?”

“Yeah, she had the photographs.”

“[Does] she know him as someone else?” Lee asked.

“Scott was telling her that he was not married to start with. They had been set up by a friend, a mutual friend. They carried on a relationship from about mid-November and they haven’t actually seen each other since Laci’s disappearance, but they have continued to talk over the phone.”

“Since Laci’s disappearance?” Lee repeated.

“Yeah,” Grogan replied.

“I’m shocked,” Lee told the detectives.

“There’s something very disturbing… . It’s one thing if it’s just some relationship that, I mean people have affairs,” Grogan said. “That doesn’t necessarily mean anything, but…”

“That’s true,” Lee interjected. “You know, I don’t know if I should talk to you fellows anymore without talking to Kirk. You know, I’m a babe in the woods here. I don’t know law enforcement or, you know, lawyers or whatever.

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