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“I’d like to know that, too,” Sam said. “The fact that we’re still asking questions like that means we aren’t a hundred percent sold on murder-suicide, so we keep working the case.”
“Tomorrow, we’ll start at his office and talk to his staff,” Freddie said. “I’m willing to give it one more day and then see where we’re at.”
“That sounds like a good plan,” Sam said.
“Do you agree that there comes a time when we have to listen to the preponderance of evidence that’s pointing in a certain direction?”
Sam fanned her face.
Freddie’s brows furrowed. “What’s the matter with you?”
“My little grasshopper is using words like ‘preponderance.’”
“Shut up. I’m being serious.”
“So am I.”
He huffed out an exasperated breath. “Do you agree with what I said?”
“Yes, I do.”
“Why couldn’t you just say that?”
“Because it’s far more fun to bust your balls.”
“My balls aren’t interested in being busted by you.”
“It’s far too late to tell me that.”
“Get busy reading the rest of the texts and emails, and don’t talk to me again until you have something useful to say.”
“Yes, sir,” Sam said, saluting him.
“Eff off.”
“Freddie! You almost said a swear!”
“You drive me to it.”
Deputy Chief Jeannie McBride appeared in the doorway to the conference room. “Am I interrupting?”
“We were just bickering,” Sam said.
Jeannie smiled. “Ah, so business as usual?”
“That’s right. What’s up, Chief?” It made Sam so damned proud to see her former detective wearing the deputy chief’s uniform. Jeannie’s pregnancy was beginning to show under her untucked white uniform shirt.
“I’ve been working with Green and Lucas on the Davies case.”
“Refresh my memory,” Sam said.
“Eric Davies was convicted sixteen years ago on rape charges. He’s denied the accusations vociferously every step of the way. Stahl investigated, tied him to the crime and testified at trial. Davies has always claimed that the evidence was manufactured to make him look guilty. With what we know now about Stahl, we’re giving the case a fresh look.”
“And finding irregularities everywhere we look,” Cameron Green said when he joined them, holding a manila file folder. “We’re unable to locate any of the so-called evidence that was used to convict Mr. Davies. The rape kit has magically disappeared, the alleged victim is ‘missing,’ and I found a complaint that Mr. Davies made against Stahl after a traffic incident when Stahl was in Patrol.”
“Oh my God,” Sam said.
“My thoughts exactly,” Jeannie said. “It’s unbelievable.”
