The
Investigation
Over the next few weeks
Jessica calls living relatives of the murdered victims and follows up on eye-witness
descriptions of what was going on in Lancaster at the time the killings took
place. There were plenty of suspects that were eventually weeded out over the
course of the original investigation. There were always alibis, or other
inconsistencies that never led to any conclusive results.
During this time,
Detective Swarovski was proving to be a great resource for Jessica. She relies
on him frequently to find addresses in the area and to locate lost geographical
data because the original farm had been torn down after the murders and some of
the archived city records were sketchy to say the least. The only thing that
was left of the old farm was a wooden pole with the land tract numbers on it.
She traces the family lineage starting with the two-year-old and working all the up to the senior Hansen’s themselves. She leaves no stone unturned and has come up with a compelling argument based on witness accounts and the family lineage.
Gradually, Jessica begins
to view Dominik as a valuable partner in her research of the crimes. He has
abandoned “Allie’s Pub” for the most part and is spending more time with Jessica,
helping her navigate the area. Then too, she is also valuable in helping him
solve one of the town’s “active” murder cases. (It turns out that it was an
accidental death that was viewed as “suspicious”). She begins seeing themselves
as a “real” team working together to solve a brutal crime that has Jessica
obsessed. Dominik endears himself to her even more by telling her where a
decent gym can be found in the neighboring city of Daukin and the two go regularly.
Optimistic, Jessica is hardly missing her friends these days and her cozy
one-bedroom apartment on the lake. She is also given news of the Internal
Affairs investigation of her co-workers in Cleveland. They have been dismissed
from the force after being found culpable in the sexual harassment charges.
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