The Lullaby Girl (Angie Pallorino Book 2) by Loreth Anne White

Author:Loreth Anne White [White, Loreth Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781542047975
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2017-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 30

“It’s all in there,” Angie told Officer Pietrikowski as he stood in the MVPD reception area holding her boxes one atop the other. “I had to retrieve them from a private lab. I’d started having my own tests run on the old evidence.”

He opened his mouth, but her hand shot up, palm facing him.

“Before you go telling me I’ve compromised anything, those boxes came out of home storage where they’d been opened and reopened. The lab I used is experienced in forensics. If there is anything compromised, it did not come from the lab or me. And you have my DNA profile should you need to rule me out. Or in.”

Pietrikowski was not impressed. “We’ll be in touch,” he said, mouth grim as he left the reception area and shouldered open the exit door. As soon as he’d vacated the building, Angie hurried back to her desk and picked up her phone. It was lunch hour, and the public affairs office was empty. She hit the extension for Stacey Warrington, the ViCLAS—Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System—tech in sex crimes. She’d always been Angie’s go-to person for anything database oriented.

“Stacey, I’m sending some files to your computer—prints. Can you do me a favor and have them run them for me?”

“Hey, Angie, I thought they had you on the cushy social media desk job for a while,” Stacey said.

“They do. This is for an old case I’m still working—the prints are from over thirty years back. I had a lab digitize images of friction ridge detail taken of bloodied patents left at a scene. When you have time,” she said. “As a favor. I’ll owe you.”

“Yeah, yeah, right. Send them now. I’ve got a hole in my schedule. I can get on it right away.”

Angie opened up her personal laptop, which she’d brought with her to work. She plugged the memory stick into a USB port and uploaded the files from Anders. She attached the first set of images and hit SEND. “Sending as we speak.”

Officer Pepper entered the office, taking off her coat. “How’s that blog post coming?” she said as she hung it up.

“Great.” Angie attached the next set of files, sent those, too.

“Need a hand? Any questions?”

“I’m good, thanks,” Angie said without looking up.

“It needs to go live before the end of the day—needs to be out there for the weekend.”

“Yeah, I got it.” Like anyone cares if an MVPD blog post goes live on Monday instead of Friday. Nevertheless, Angie shut down her files as soon as the images had gone through. She switched computers and reopened the document containing her blog-in-progress. She tried to focus on finishing off her blog post, but anticipation hummed in her blood.

It was 3:23 p.m. when the phone her desk buzzed. Internal call. She lunged for the receiver.

“Angie, it’s Stacey. We got a hit. He’s in the system.”

“Serious?”

“You sound surprised.”

“No. No.” Chills raced over her skin. “It’s a he? The patents belong to a male?”

“The one set, yes.”

Angie shot a glance at Officer Pepper, who was casting a watchful eye her way.

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