“I was following up on a lead, sorry. What do we have?” she asks.
“We may have found Mr. Fields and Ms. Fischer,” Shane tells her.
“Shit,” she says. “It would have been nice to confirm if they in fact stole the drugs and possibly gave them to Mr. Cavanaugh. If not him, then who?” she says, and I can’t help nodding in agreement.
“I’ll bet the killer thought they may talk and took care of them before they could,” I say, shaking my head.
We head back up to the parking lot, as there is nothing more we can do here, and I ask Nora, “What lead do you have? Does this have to do with your friend?”
“No, not Courtney. While dropping off Heath at the train station, I thought I would talk with some of the conductors about Cavanaugh and see if they could give me any insight about him.”
“And did they?” Shane asks.
“One guy, who knows him fairly well and was willing to talk to me said Cavanaugh is harmless, just a pervert. They’ve known each other for a few years, and he said Cavanaugh is really into voyeurism. He likes to watch couples, and that gets him off more than the sexual act itself.” she tells us, but I already knew that from his files.
“Did he say anything else?” Shane asks.
“Cavanaugh did tell him about the first murder, showing him the footage. He said Cavanaugh was scared and didn’t know what to do. He couldn’t admit to anyone that he placed cameras in the car since that’s against policy and would get him fired.”
“And this guy didn’t think he should say anything?” Shane asks.
“Stefan said he agreed to keep it quiet if Cavanaugh took the cameras down, and he agreed to. Stefan thought he had since he said nothing about the other murders except that bodies were discovered, though he says he shouldn’t be surprised that Cavanaugh lied to him,” she tells us with a sigh and shaking her head.
“We know the man is a pervert, but is he capable of murder?” I ask, musing over my thoughts.
“Maybe it’s time to bring him back in for questioning,” Shane says, and we all nod in agreement.
“I’ll get him and bring him to the precinct,” Nora says.
“Great,” Shane replies.
“We are missing a whole lot of pieces in this puzzle. Why these couples? Why the train?” I mutter my thoughts out loud as I continue to muse over everything internally.
Shane and I get back in the car, we came in, and Nora gets back in hers. She heads to the jail as Shane and I drive to the precinct.
When we arrive, Commander Doyle is waiting for us. “Where’s Riley?” he asks.
“She’s gone over to the jail to bring the suspect back over, we have a few more questions for him,” Shane tells him.
“What of the bodies that were found by the river?” he asks.
“Preliminary, we think they are Mr. Fields and Ms. Fischer, but Max will confirm and let us know more,” he informs him.
“Anything else?”
“Both bodies had their throats slit, and they were dumped in the river. Max says they’ve been deceased over forty-eight hours, probably killed shortly after they left the hospital,” Shane concludes.
“You think your suspect did it?”
“I don’t think so, not based on what we know so far, but I think he knows more than what he has told us,” I voice my thoughts.
“You think he knows who the killer is?”
Before I can answer, Shane’s phone rings, “It’s Nora,” he says before answering.
“What’s going on?”
“How?”
“Damn. Alright,” he says, hanging up.
“Well, if he knew anything, he’s not talking now,” Shane says, shaking his head.
“Why?” I ask.
“Cavanaugh was found dead in his cell.”
“What the hell is going on?” Commander Doyle asks.
“Seems the killer is tying up loose ends,” I say.
“How could the killer get into the jail?” he asks out loud before saying, “I’m calling the Commissioner, we need to know how this happened.”
He turns and heads back to his office to make the call.
“We need to find out if Cavanaugh had any visitors today,” I tell Shane.
He nods and calls the jail.
