Ethan agreed.
“Were the doors unlocked?” he asked curiously. Yes, he could look at the police report, but then why have the man help them?
“Both doors were unlocked when we got here,” he admitted.
Gene was curious.
“She has a garage, so her car was outside in the driveway?” he asked.
The cop nodded.
“The garage is filled with things,” he said. “I doubt she used it.”
The garage was also set back, and with two houses for sale around hers, that cut down on the traffic at this end of the cul-de-sac.
That would give the killer time to get in, and get out with her.
Together, they moved around, the cop following them. They peeked into the garage, and it was filled with storage containers marked‘school supplies’and‘classroom decorations’. There were even holiday ones too.
At the back, there was a door.
The two Feds headed there, and when they got there, the door was also unlocked.
Ethan was curious.
He headed out, and when he did, he saw the trees around the back of Ivey’s property.
“What’s over there?” Gene asked.
Since it had been a while since he’d been here, Ethan let the cop handle that one.
“More trees and a road that leads back to a new development that’s being constructed,” he offered.
Gene glanced over at his partner.
“This is how the killer would have come in and left. There is privacy back here, and cover.”
Ethan agreed.
The detective didn’t add anything, and both Feds figured it was because the cops hadn’t considered that. Then again, it was their first missing person before being inundated with two more victims.
Sometimes, you just got buried in details.
Heading back in, they moved around her home, taking the rest of the space in.
“So, she recently had a breakup,” Ethan reiterated, reminding them about Randal Crest. “There areNOphotos of any significant other here. That tells me it was probably a bad breakup.”
No one argued that.
Gene pointed.
“That one picture is her and her bestie, Tristan,” he offered, so the detective would be on the same page. “We found out that he’s not into the ladies.”
The man laughed.
“There seems to be a lot of that going around,” he joked.
Gene just looked at him.
