“Do we know if they knew each other?” he asked. “I was hoping when we showed Robert and Rodney that they’d recognize either of the two women.”
Yeah, him too.
Unfortunately, he was running that too, and not coming up with anything.
He shared what he could.
“They were all from this town originally, and all I found was that they went to the same school. They all went to the high school that Ivey taught at.”
Gene was eating his breakfast.
“Aren’t they different ages?” he asked.
Ethan nodded.
“Yeah, they were. None of them would have been in the same class. Ivey was the oldest, then Phylis, and the youngest was Megan. There were years between them. So that’s not looking like what connected them.”
Gene knew that meant the school was likely not playing a role in this, even if one of the victims was a teacher there. There was only one high school inDamascus, and that was it. So, of course,EVERYONEwho grew up here would have attended.
Plus, the other victims weren’t tied to that location with their careers.
“We need more,” Ethan said, passing Gene his waffle so he could finish it.
Oh, and Gene did, simply because he loved waffles, and there was no way he wasn’t sharing food with Ethan.
It was very couple-y, and he loved it.
“I’ll have to do a deep dive on their social media,” Ethan said. “Maybe we’ll find something unusual that ties them together.”
Fingers were crossed.
Gene knew that people put their lives out there a lot of the time, and that would be their best chance of getting to know the women better now that they were dead.
You could only learn so much from the friends and co-workers left behind.
“Good plan.”
Ethan began running the victims, as Gene kept working on the suspects, along with a whole school of teachers.
That’s when Ethan’s phone rang.
It was sitting on the table, and they both looked over to see a number.
It was Timothy’s.
Ethan clued him in.
“Fifty bucks that it’s about Callen. He’ll be worried as to where he is,” he said.
Gene laughed.
“What? No Shaman antics to figure that out?”
Apparently not.
Granted, he was bitchy about his family, but he didn’t want Timothy to worry—specifically about Callen—but he also knew he needed a heads-up about Kaya Cheek on the prowl.
It appeared he was taking the call against his best judgment. How could this go wrong?
