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Baltimore 03 - Did You Miss Me?

Baltimore 03 - Did You Miss Me?

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Autoren: Karen Rose
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‘I don’t understand.’
    ‘Somebody lied to you. Set you up to think you were giving a statement. There’s no record of a Claudia Baker in the Bureau, in the DC office or anywhere else.’
    She sank onto the sofa, stunned. ‘That means . . . what does that mean, Joseph?’
    ‘I don’t know yet. But Bo wants answers. He might be less . . . friendly than before.’
    Her eyes widened. ‘He thinks I’m lying?’
    ‘He doesn’t know for sure,’ Joseph hedged. ‘He wants to talk to you himself.’
    She looked up sharply, studying his face. ‘Does he think you’re covering for me?’ Joseph hesitated. Shrugged. ‘He doesn’t know for sure,’ he said again. ‘Do you need a minute to regroup?’
    ‘No.’ Her expression had grown hard. ‘Let’s do this.’
    She grabbed her handbag and followed him back to his room, her breakfast forgotten. Kerr and McManus had arrived and were eating the doughnuts. On the phone were Bo, JD and Brodie. Kate wasn’t able to get to a secure place to call, and Hector still stood watch over Ford.
    ‘Good morning,’ Joseph said. ‘We’ve got a lot of new developments so let’s jump in. First up, a possible ID for Doug. One of the neighbors of Odum’s house in Timonium reported seeing Doug try to buy superglue at the local drugstore. We weren’t able to get any photos from the store’s surveillance video, but we forgot about the superglue itself. Dr Brodie?’
    ‘Local uniforms are at the store now,’ Brodie said. ‘JD and I are about five minutes away. We’re hoping the package Doug touched is still in the store. If it’s not, the store has a record of anyone who bought superglue in the past two weeks, since everybody who buys it is carded. If someone’s bought that specific package, we’ll try to track them down. Hopefully they’ll still have the packaging in their possession. We’ll keep you up to date.’
    ‘Thanks. We’ll keep our fingers crossed. Second.’ Joseph glanced at Daphne, saw her jaw set grimly. It grew tighter as he explained the situation concerning Beckett’s death certificate and the non-existent Claudia Baker.
    Bo cleared his throat. ‘Can you tell us exactly how you were contacted by the woman claiming to be Baker?’
    ‘I wrote to the FBI to ask whether they ever provided security for the families of informants whose information about a killer could endanger other members of the family. I said it was for a school project, a paper I was writing. I put the letter with all the outgoing mail at the Elkharts’ DC house. A few days later I got a visit from Agent Baker.’
    ‘Why did you write a letter?’ Bo asked. ‘Why didn’t you call or go in person?’
    ‘I didn’t call because I didn’t know who was listening to my calls. I’d just moved into my ex-mother-in-law’s house in Georgetown. She was very strict and didn’t let me have any contact with the outside. I had a tutor and a doctor, that was all.
    ‘When Agent Baker showed up, I was terrified that Nadine – my ex-mother-in-law – would find out. But she was taking her daily nap and my tutor was out sick so nobody saw me talking to the agent at the front door. I didn’t want Nadine to be angry. I was pregnant and fifteen and she had promised my baby a good life. I wasn’t about to get thrown out for breaking the rules. The agent said she knew who I was, that she’d searched the files and had finally found my story.’
    ‘How did she say they found out?’ McManus asked.
    ‘She said that my letter sounded like more than a school project, so she checked unsolved cases, found Daphne Sinclair and Kelly Montgomery. She said it didn’t take a rocket scientist to do the math. Plus, she could see my resemblance to the newspaper photos she’d found of me at eight years old.’
    ‘Plausible,’ Bo admitted.
    ‘Thank you,’ Daphne said sweetly, but Joseph wasn’t fooled. She was pissed at having to defend herself.
    As well she should be . ‘ What happened next?’ Joseph asked her.
    ‘She told me she’d wait for me in the park the next day if I could get away. My tutor was still sick the next day, so I slipped out during Nadine’s nap and met Baker in the park. I told her the story. I even gave her Beckett’s name. She said she’d see what she could find out and for me to meet her again the next day. I did, and that’s when she told me that Beckett was dead, that there was no reason to proceed.
    ‘I wanted to believe her, but I was afraid for my

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