Sloane came up from the garage. “You’re right about the oil stain, it’s been there awhile, plus there’s fresh oil so the second vehicle was only recently moved.”
“I’ll look for insurance papers for a second car, but I found an LLC. I’m having Zack run it, maybe they own the second vehicle.”
“What’s the LLC? Is it the same LLC that owns the house?” Sloane asked.
Michael looked at his notes. “There’s multiple companies, all starting with ‘SmartGirl.’”
“The house is owned by SmartGirl Properties, LLC,” she said.
“That’s one of them,” Michael confirmed.
Sloane went upstairs to the bedrooms, and Michael continued going through the desk but didn’t find anything else of interest.
Five minutes later, Sloane called down. “Michael! I got something and you will not believe it.”
He went upstairs and saw that Sloane had spread papers and photos across the dresser and was systematically taking photos of each.
“This woman has multiple IDs, different names. They were all in that box.” She gestured to a box at the end of the dresser. “I found it in her closet, but it wasn’t hidden. Just sitting on ashelf. I glanced inside, thinking there’d be family photos or jewelry. There’s no jewelry, but there’s an empty velvet box. And a photo album.”
He opened the small photo album with eight digital prints behind plastic. The cover readSilver Bells Chapel, Las Vegas, Nevada. The first page was a photo of male and female hands, with wedding rings, and the date. The other seven pages were of the bride and groom at the cheap altar, slicing a small cake, and kissing.
Garrett Reid and Hope Davidson.
“She’s married,” Michael said, shocked. “To Reid.”
Sloane handed him the marriage certificate between Garrett Reid and Audrey Dolan.
“Audrey Dolan is the name on the SmartGirl LLCs,” he said. “Next month is their five-year anniversary. What else did you find?”
“She has documents under the names Audrey Reid, Audrey Dolan, Amber Dunning, and Hope Davidson, all out of Nevada. There’s a birth certificate for Clara Dolan, born in Glendale, California. They all look legit, but they can’t all be real, right? My guess is the birth certificate is her real name—it has an official seal and date stamp issued a month after her birth—but it will need to be verified.”
“Send copies of everything to the team. I’m calling Tony.”
When Catherine learned that Garrett Reid was married and that his wife had a false identity and worked at the same resort, she called John Anson and told him they needed to bring Reid back in to interview.
“I can’t force him to come in,” Anson said. “He’ll have to come in on his own, and there’s no reason for him to do so. We may have to wait until Monday and ask the judge to revoke his bail—but he didn’t lie about being married. We never asked him and no one mentioned it.”
“We need to bring him back into questioning because of this new information,” Catherine insisted. “Matt and Kara’s lives are in danger—certainly we have cause.”
“The best I can do is see if I can get a warrant to arrest him for obstruction, but that’s going to be a long shot.”
“I can bring him in on federal charges,” she said, though she had no idea what they might be. She’d have to talk to the AUSA and that would take time—time they didn’t have.
“Good luck with that,” Anson said with a short laugh.
“I already had the FBI put out a BOLO on Hope Davidson, with her real name and other aliases.”
“She brings in a lawyer, she’s not going to talk,” Anson said, “and we have no evidence. That she has multiple identities isn’t covered by the warrant. Meaning, we can’t arrest her for discovering false identification while searching for information about the whereabouts of your agents.”
Catherine was getting very frustrated with the DA. “John, she and Reid worked together at two different resorts over the last few years. They went out of their way to conceal that information from their employer. She used a false name in employment, and hell, I don’t know, we can maybe get her on tax or social security fraud if she has multiple social security numbers to go with all her names. We need to bring her in—she’s Reid’s partner.” Before he could object, she added quickly, “We have multiple FBI offices in every city where they worked interviewing staff and anyone who might have known them, and the LA office is working on finding out who Clara Dolan is—if it’s in fact Hope’s real birth certificate. We have our white-collar crimes expert looking into each identity as well as the LLCs that we uncovered, one of which owns the property she lives in.”
“And all that may be thrown out if the information was obtained in a fraudulent manner if not covered by the warrant.”
“Unless her identities lead us to Matt and Kara.”
“You’re stretching it.”
“And you’re being too cautious!”
