Her Last Regret by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2023-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

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Two security guards escorted Rachel and Jack to the first floor almost immediately after Rachel had asked about security footage. One of them, she learned, was the security guard that had first responded to Molly Hatcher’s call. They led them to a corridor along the western edge of the first floor, lined with staff offices and what Rachel though might be the hub for the accounting department.

The room they were taken to was located all the way in the back. It was dimly lit and adorned with a long desk that held three different computer stations. Several desktop screens were positioned strategically around the desk, offering up the hospital’s entire security camera footage. Rachel counted fifteen different windows, showing different levels, corners, and vistas all around the hospital.

“Can you help us out with narrowing down our search?” Rachel asked the guard to her right.

“Yeah, that’s easy enough,” he said. He walked to the desk and pulled out a chair for her. As she sat down with Jack standing behind her, the guard hit a few commands on the keyboard, and two different windows were enlarged, sitting over the other, now smaller ones. “These are the only two shots you’re going to get of the third floor. And in terms of where you need to see, they aren’t going to do you much good.”

“Why’s that?”

“Well, this one,” he said, pointing to the window on the right, “is coming off the elevator. You can see most of the nurse’s station, most of the hall to the right of the station, but that’s it. Then this other one is the opposing hall, showing the entire stretch down to the stairwell. Because of this set-up, there are two complete sections of the third-floor hall that are completely missing—one of which is where the third-floor on-call rooms are located.”

“Yeah, I suppose that really doesn’t help at all.”

Rachel was familiar with the software, having viewed footage on the system in various other cases, so there wasn’t much of a learning curve. Within just a few minutes, she and Jack were studying the footage closely without the help of the guards. Rachel was going over footage from the third-floor elevator and stairwell entrance from the last twelve hours. She figured if someone had snuck into the on-call room, they could have easily hidden themselves away in the flow of traffic during regular visiting hours. Also, though, she started to wonder if the killer may have had a key to the on-call room. And if so, that raised an entire new batch of questions.

While she checked the two windows showing third-floor footage, Jack looked over the cameras from the first-floor elevators; he had chosen the daunting task of trying to determine if anyone had taken the elevator up in the past twelve hours and had never come back down. He was making little notes on a ratty-looking pad left by the guard.

About twenty minutes into their search, there was a knock at the workstation door. Rachel turned around and saw Hall opening the door, stepping into the room.

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