REASON TO DOUBT by Nancy Cole Silverman

Author:Nancy Cole Silverman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: amateur sleuth
Publisher: Henery Press
Published: 2018-08-03T15:58:27+00:00

CHAPTER 21

For dinner Wednesday night, I made myself a bowl of microwave popcorn and grabbed a diet soda from the vending machine in the employees’ kitchen. The idea that in five days I would be facing a judge who would likely sentence me to jail for refusing to answer questions concerning my relationship with Xstacy weighed heavily on my mind. I wanted the time alone to do a little research and squared myself away in my office in front of my computer.

Unlike some gossip magazines or tabloid news shows like TMZ, most news stations don’t have budgets for private online investigative sources. It’s up to the reporter to get creative, and I planned to dig up as much information as I could from free social media sites available to me. It’s amazing what people will post about themselves. Given a little time and effort, it’s not too difficult to compile enough information about someone to get a pretty good idea of who they are.

I started with a list of names: Brian Evans, Ely Wade, and Samantha Miller. If I had a name for the scar-faced man at the bar, I would have included him too. But with no name and nothing to go on, I stuck with the names I could research and added Pete Pompidou, aka Peter Phillips, to my list. If Pete really was some freelance photographer from Canada who had stolen my daughter’s heart, I wanted to know as much about him as possible.

What I learned about Brian Evans blew me away. Evans maintained a professional LinkedIn profile along with a list of his clients, and a Facebook page with a cache of posts and photos going back five years. Most recent were pictures of Marilynn. The two of them together. Smiling. Dancing. Typical couple shots. Going back further Brian had posted pictures of his dog, his car, then several of what appeared to be a previous girlfriend, Melissa Morgan. I scrolled over the photo of the girlfriend, highlighted her name, then clicked over to her Facebook page.

Melissa Morgan was active on Facebook, and from the looks of the photos on the page, she had moved on from Brian. She was single, pregnant and happy to display photos of her bulging belly. I dug deeper into the photos and found an old picture of Melissa with Brian. Including a rather unflattering one of Brian along with a long passage about their break up and news that she’d taken out a restraining order against him. She had even posted a copy of it. I zoomed in on the paperwork. The order was dated November 13, 2016. No wonder the police had continued to question Evans. If they knew about the restraining order, they certainly had reason to think Brian might be a person of interest when it came to Marilynn’s disappearance. I clicked on Melissa’s contact information and bingo. She’d listed her phone number. I jotted it down and moved on to Ely Wade.

Wade didn’t maintain a Facebook page, but, like Brian, he did have a listing on LinkedIn which read like an online resume.

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