Fruit Pie with a Side of Danger by Meredith Potts

Author:Meredith Potts [Potts, Meredith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

David and I hadn’t even begun interviewing suspects yet and I could already tell this would be a unique case. Not just because the scene was staged to look like a suicide. Also because of the suspects that were on our list.

Roger’s wife, Danielle, had divorced him shortly after he went to jail. Once the paperwork was completed, she left California and moved back east, where her sister and brother lived.

Meanwhile, Roger’s adult son, George, followed suit, packing up his life in Treasure Cove and relocating to Florida.

Neither Danielle nor George wanted anything to do with Roger. In fact, neither of them returned to California to greet Roger when he was released in prison. They were both still back east.

In addition, Roger didn’t have any friends to speak of. At least, not anymore. You see, when Roger was starting up his Ponzi scheme, he recruited his closest friends to become his first round of investors. So, when his misdeeds were uncovered, those friends quickly turned into enemies.

The other thing that made this case unique was the sheer number of potential suspects. Over the years, Roger managed to anger a whole lot of people. So many that it would be hard to sort through them all.

While there was a case to be made for beginning our interviews with the investors that had lost the most money, David and I took a different approach. We sorted our suspect list based on the investors whose lives were currently still in ruins.

Our reasoning was simple. Murder was often an act of desperation. And who was more desperate than someone who hadn’t cobbled their life back together?

Ultimately, someone from the police department would speak with every name on the list. The list just happened to be so long that it would take days for David and I to get to everyone if we conducted all of the interviews ourselves. A lot could happen in the span of a few days. Including people trying to leave town before we were able to get to them.

With that in mind, David and I knew that we’d need help. For maximum efficiency, David decided to divide up the list. My husband and I would personally interview the top four names. A slew of deputies would then handle the rest of the questioning.

Once the first round of interviews were complete, if some of the other suspects required a follow up visit, David and I would step in.

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