To Kill Upon A Kiss (A Dead Cold Mystery Book 10) by Blake Banner

Author:Blake Banner [Banner, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-30T22:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

I pulled out my cell and started to dial. I glanced at Dehan. She was standing by the door. I said, “What’s the deal with Teddy? He’s dragging his heels. Why don’t you give him a call and lean on him a bit?”

She nodded and stepped out of the room, pulling her phone from her pocket. My number rang twice and an attractive voice said, “Hello?”

“Ms. Ai Hitani?”

“Speaking. Who is this please?”

“This is Detective John Stone of the New York Police Department. Can you spare me a couple of minutes to talk about Angela Fernandez?”

There was a moment’s silence, then her voice again with a frown in it. “Angela? Sure. Is she OK?”

“Ms. Itani, I believe Angela stayed with you for a few days a couple of years back, after she broke up with Michael.”

“Yes, she did, that’s right.”

“Do you know where she went after that?”

Another silence. “Um, yes, she moved in with her boyfriend. Well, her new boyfriend. We were all a little startled that she had switched so suddenly, but she seemed pretty swept off her feet.”

“Do you recall his name?”

“Yeah, sure, Jimmy something.”

“Did you hear from her after that?”

“No, we never did.”

“Did she give you an address?”

“No. He called, came and picked her up, and we never heard from her again. We weren’t real close. We were more Mike’s friends. Is she OK?”

I sighed. “No, I’m afraid she has been murdered.” There was a small gasp at the other end of the phone. I went on, “Ms Itani, Angela was murdered that Saturday. We have reason to believe that whoever picked her up was responsible for her death. Someone will be around later to take a statement from you and from Mr. Walters. In the meantime, please try to remember anything you can about what she said to you about her new boyfriend.”

She said she would and I hung up. Dehan was leaning on the doorjamb, watching me. “He was falling over himself with apologies. He was looking for it right there and then. I told him I didn’t want to have to charge him with withholding evidence. He swore he was on it. He knows he has it, he just can’t remember exactly where.”

“Good. Maybe we should go help him look.”

“On the other hand, we have Angela’s phone and bank records.”

I nodded. “OK. I’m going to start going through her phone records, see who she spoke to on Friday and Saturday. Meantime, you want to go and take a statement from Ai Hitani and Bill Walters?”

Her eyes flicked over my face for a second. “Sure.” She paused. I stood. She said, “You OK, Stone?”

“Never better. Let’s go.”

I gave her the keys to the Jag and we went downstairs.

The bank and phone records were on my desk. There was only one thing I was interested in and I leafed through the phone records until I found it. Friday and Saturday, 13th and 14th May, 2016. There were not many calls: a couple out of state to Pennsylvania, and a cell phone that called her late Friday and just before midnight.

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