Stillwater Island - Detective Megan Carpenter Series 04 (2021) by Olsen Gregg

Author:Olsen, Gregg [Olsen, Gregg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THIRTY

“Where to now, Megan?”

“Ben’s cabin.”

Ronnie is on her phone, searching motor vehicle records. “I can’t believe I didn’t find the other truck in his vehicle registration.”

That makes two of us. “It’s okay. We know now.”

When Luci spoke coherently, she told us we had missed Ben’s visit by less than an hour. According to Luci, he had come in a Chevy truck but he has access to two other trucks, another Chevy and a Ford kept in a garage within walking distance of his cabin. We hadn’t searched the woods.

Ben bought the condo for her to stay in but they met at his cabin. Before that it was hotels. She thought he lived in the cabin. During today’s brief visit he’d warned her when we talked to her we would try to turn her against him. He said he loved her and wanted to be with her. He admitted he hadn’t filed for the divorce but that was because he couldn’t find Marlena. He didn’t know his wife was missing until the police contacted him. It was one of many other lies.

He told Luci to ask for an attorney when we came, because we would suspect her of his wife’s disappearance. Ben came right out and said as his lover she had as much motive as he did to get rid of Marlena. He didn’t mention Bennie. He promised to get her out of Washington State and take her anywhere she wanted to go if she didn’t talk to us. He also said he would buy a house for them to live in together. She wasn’t fooled and knew it was over between them. She would never live with a liar and a cheater. I’d asked if she had anyone that could stay with her. Hopefully to hide the liquor before she killed herself. There was no one. She’d never spoken to any of the neighbors and I could understand why.

I tell Ronnie, “Before we left, she asked if Ben was in trouble. I think she’ll deny everything she told us. She’s still in love with him.”

Ronnie nods. “There are hundreds of vehicles registered to Parker Industries. I located his phone and it’s still at the cabin. Maybe he has a couple of phones and switches them out.”

We’re too late. He’s rabbited. He could be getting on his private jet right now. But Marlena and Bennie are still out there somewhere, and Ben is the only one who knows where. My instinct is telling me they were being held at the timber mill and when he didn’t show up on time for his interview he wasn’t sleeping. He was keeping them unconscious on sleeping meds and moving them. I can’t imagine doing that to a four-year-old boy you profess to love. He’s a psycho. A very rich psycho. He could hire someone to spirit them away. They could be anywhere by now. But I don’t think Ben will want to give up control of them. He’ll want them close. They belong to him.

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