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CHAPTER73
THROUGH HER NEW FRIENDS ATthe FBI, Gibson got them to run the print she’d taken from Wilson Sullivan.
“His real name is Mark Gosling,” Gibson told Francine as they sat at an outdoor café having coffee in Williamsburg.
“Why would he change it to Wilson Sullivan?”
“I don’t know. He wasn’t in WITSEC; they confirmed that. And it’s not illegal to change your name. And he has no criminal record under that name. That would have made it problematic to become a cop.”
“Wait a minute. Gosling?”
“Yeah, why?”
Francine pulled her laptop out of her bag and opened it. Then she slid a thumb drive into the dongle port and brought up the information on it.
“This is the stuff I got from Beckett’s computer.” Her fingers flew over the keyboard. “Okay, here it is. I thought I recognized that last name, and not because of Ryan Gosling.”
Gibson shifted her chair next to Francine so she could read off the screen. “Helen Gosling was in WITSEC years ago. She’d fallen in with a guy who was a member of a militia group that did some really bad stuff. People got killed and a federal building was bombed. She turned state’s evidence and was put in WITSEC.”
“And she was moved to Alabama where she was under the protection of Earl Beckett, among others,” added Francine.
“And she killed herself. They found her hanging in her bedroom.”
Francine hit some more keys. “Here’s a photo of her.”
“Wow, she was gorgeous,” noted Gibson.
“Yes, she was,” said Francine, eyeing Gibson steadily. “Maybetoogorgeous.”
Gibson shot her a glance. “Wait, you think—”
“—that Beckett tried it on with her? Oh hell yes, I do. This was right after we left New Mexico. He must have gotten transferred.”
“Do you think he had something to do with her death?”
“Well, let’s say she was brave enough to threaten to out the man for his shit. Is that a motive for murder?”
“You bet it is. And Sullivan—or Mark Gosling, rather—is her…?”
Francine pulled a notebook out of her purse. Gibson saw that it was labeledTAKING DOWN EARL FUCKING BECKETT.
“Do you have a notebook for everything?” Gibson asked.
Francine gave her a knowing smile. “Oh, you have no idea.” She skimmed through some pages and then pointed at some written notes. “This is what I found out. Mark was her younger brother. I didn’t know at the time that he was also Wilson Sullivan.”
“You think she might have confided in him? So he might have known what was happening to his sister?”
“And he became a cop to bring justice to his sister?” said Francine. “It’s certainly plausible.”
Gibson had a sudden idea. “I thought Gosling might have been following Langhorne and then killed him. But can you see where Beckett was assigned over the years?”
She turned some more pages in the notebook. “After Alabama he was in El Paso. Then Arkansas, South Carolina, North Carolina, and now Virginia.”
“That’s it.”
“What?” said Francine.
“Starting with El Paso those are the same places that Mark Gosling has been a cop as Wilson Sullivan.”
