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Josie said, “Well, we’ve got him on video coming and going from Keri Cryer’s house for the past two weeks. He was not there during the time that Sharon Eddy was missing and then murdered—”
“But we don’t know where he was because we haven’t been able to locate him in order to talk with him,” Noah interjected.
“In terms of Keri Cryer,” Josie said. “He left before her on Thursday morning and he hasn’t been back since.”
“That gives him time to kill both Sharon Eddy and Keri Cryer,” Gretchen said, “Chief, you want to put out a BOLO on this guy?”
“I want you to talk to him,” the Chief said. “That’s for damn sure. Try to keep the press off this, but let’s put out an alert. If any units see him, they should bring him in for questioning. You said he’s got no car, right?”
Noah shrugged. “Nothing registered to either him or Keri Cryer.”
The Chief frowned. “Hard to transport a body with no car. We know Keri Cryer was moved in a sedan.”
Noah said, “Just because there’s nothing registered to him or Keri doesn’t mean he doesn’t have access to a vehicle somehow.”
“Which is why we need to talk to him,” said Josie.
“Phone?” Gretchen said. “He’s got to have a phone. How was he keeping in touch with Keri?”
“We haven’t found anything in the databases under his name,” Josie said. “But Hummel is working on getting everything he can from Keri Cryer’s phone. I’m sure there will be something on there.”
“What else do we know about this woman?” asked the Chief. “You find anything in her apartment?”
Josie said, “We found a lot of negative pregnancy tests, so her landlord wasn’t lying when she said that Cryer and Tobin were trying to start a family. We found a laptop, which Hummel is processing. We also found some documents from her old firm, Downey, Downey & O’Neill. Termination letter, that sort of thing. We called them to see if they had any contact information for Mathias Tobin, but they wouldn’t give us anything. I asked about Keri Cryer but they said they don’t discuss HR matters.”
“How about Keri Cryer’s new firm?” asked Gretchen. “Get in touch with them?”
Noah said, “I spoke with her supervising attorney there. He said she was a good worker. Smart. Never had an issue with her. He did relate that two of her coworkers said they were meeting her for drinks on Saturday night at a bar a few blocks from her house, but she never showed.”
Josie said, “We knew from the landlord’s surveillance footage that she left her apartment on foot Saturday evening around ninep.m. We checked traffic cams and surveillance from nearby businesses. It took a bit as there are a few different routes from her house to the bar on foot, but we found her. We were able to follow her to about four blocks away from the bar. At that point, all we could pull was video of her lower body, basically, from a shop that is almost a full block away. Can’t see shit. Just her stepping off the curb and walking up to a car—white sedan from what we can tell, too far away to see the plate—and talking to the person. Then she gets in. The car leaves.”
Noah said, “We’re hoping that once Hummel gets into her phone, GPS will show where she went.”
“Doubtful,” said the Chief. “If this is anything like the Sharon Eddy murder, then the killer convinced her to turn her phone off when she got into the car.”
“But how?” asked Noah.
“Don’t know,” the Chief said. “Maybe you can ask this killer when you find him!”
Gretchen asked, “Did you get anything else from the traffic cams?”
Josie said, “We’ve got the car on some other cameras that local businesses provided. Nothing close enough or clear enough to see the plate or who was driving.”
“LPRs?” asked Gretchen.
“Still working on that,” said Noah. “But nothing so far. The cameras only follow them a few blocks, and once they’re out of the business district, we’ve got nothing.”
Gretchen said, “We’ll send more units out this morning to collect footage.”
The Chief said, “We also need to find out where Vance Hadlee was in the time period between Keri Cryer getting into that car and her body being dumped near the river. Let’s not forget, this happened before he showed up at Anya’s and punched Mett.”
Noah said, “We’ll see what we can find out although with him in jail here now, we’ll have to go through his attorney.”
The Chief folded his arms across his chest. “Let’s go back to Mathias Tobin. Seems like violence follows him wherever he goes but nothing sticks.”
“He wouldn’t have known about the brand, though, would he?” asked Gretchen. “When we spoke with Anya, his name never came up.”
“Ask her again,” said the Chief.
