Hero series Box Set by M A Comley

Author:M A Comley [Comley, M A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jeamel Publishing Limited
Published: 2019-09-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

As it turned out, Jason was looking mighty pleased with himself when Hero and Julie joined the rest of the team in the incident room.

“Looks promising. What did the old gent have to say, Jason?” Hero perched on the desk closest to Jason’s.

“I took him photos of both Cathy and Stuart Daws—”

“Hold back on the enthusiasm just a second, Jason. How did you get a picture of the wife, Cathy Daws? She doesn’t have a record, does she?”

“Nope.” Jason smiled awkwardly. “I kind of used my initiative, sir.”

“How exactly?”

“When Daws came in earlier, her arrival was on the station’s security camera. I asked the desk sergeant if I could take a still photo from the footage.”

“Clever. Some might call you a smartarse, but not I. Carry on?” Hero nodded approvingly at the youngster.

Jason beamed with appreciation. “Anyway, I’m not sure what Mrs. Daws said during her interview, sir—”

“She told Julie and me that she didn’t know Lomax. Go on. You’re going to tell me that she’s taken us for fools, aren’t you?” Hero said.

“Well… I personally wouldn’t put it that way myself, sir. However, according to Mr. Wilson—that’s the man’s name—she has visited Lomax’s house on several occasions, with the other deceased victim, Stuart Daws.”

Hero stood up and paced the area, running an angry hand through his short hair. “What the…? How in God’s name did I let her trick me like that? Right, from now on, we hit that woman with everything we’ve got. I couldn’t give a toss if she’s grieving or not. Perhaps she killed her husband, too.”

“But, she has a trusted alibi, sir,” Julie pointed out from where she was seated at her desk.

“So she says. Maybe she took a break around the time her husband was killed,” Hero said, walking over to the noticeboard to look at the clues and suspects he’d written down.

Jason joined him at the board. “Are you thinking that Foster picked her up, and they carried out the crime together?”

“I am. Let’s see how far the locations are. Work out the timings, the probabilities of her involvement, despite her saying she was on duty that night?”

Jason rushed back to his desk. “On it, sir.”

Hero was still running through the main players and clues when Jason returned a few minutes later. “I’d say we have an approximate time of thirty minutes for Cathy to get from one location to another. That’s not taking into consideration how long the actual crime took to commit.”

Hero tutted and leaned his shoulder against the wall. “It’s not long enough, is it? Her boss would have noticed her missing during that time, surely?”

“I think so, sir. Frustrating though that is.”

“But the person getting out of that vehicle did appear to be female, yes? Let’s have another look at the footage just to make sure. It could have been a short man, I suppose, thinking about it.”

They evaluated the footage again and came to the same conclusion that the movements likely belonged to a woman rather than a man.

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