Page 54 of Her Last Whisper

“Great, another list of people to run backgrounds.”

“Fun, I know. But I think we’re getting somewhere—I just don’t know where yet.”

“Okay,” said McGaven. “What now?”

“It’s a bit distressing waiting for forensics. But that’s the way it is. What about the phone records?”

“I should hear by tomorrow.”

“Good,” she said, pacing in her small area.

“What’s bothering you?”

“Jane Doe.”

“What do you mean?”

“They moved her to the Cold Springs facility.”

“And? You seem concerned.”

“I think that she knows who she is and that she’s afraid that the person who kidnapped her is coming back to kill her—so claiming she doesn’t know who she is keeps her safe. I can’t let anything happen to her,” she said, deeply concerned.

“Safety behind bars—creepy kind, but still…”

“What now?”

“Road trip.”

“Road trip?”

“For me, first thing tomorrow. And it’s going to be a long day.”

“Darn.”

“I want you to finish background checks, push the phone records for Emily Day’s house, and start looking at employees working at First Memorial Hospital, in particular employees working on Amanda’s floor.”

“I’m on it.”

“And push the search for video cameras near and around Emily Day’s house the night Amanda left. Focus about an hour before 10.30p.m. for now, until we see the phone records.”

“I’ll see what I can find out.”

Katie stared at her board and the map of the county. The hospital seemed to be in the middle of everything. “See what you can find out at the hospital. Use your charm with the nurses,” she instructed. “I can catch up with you after I finish what I have to do. I think at this point it makes more sense us splitting up for efficiency. But call or text me withanynews.”

McGaven wrote more notes down.

“I think we need to do a backdoor approach to Dr. Jamison before confronting him head on. I want to make sure that Jamison senior from the building project is actually his dad so we can ask the right questions when we have him.”

He nodded. “I’ll check it out.”

“Denise is still gathering information on social media, so that could lend some interesting reading and maybe some new people of interest. If you like, you can check in with her.”

“Where is the open road going to take you?”

“I’m going to visit Jane Doe again and see if I can get more information, but I have something personal to take care of along the way.”

“Do you think you can get more information about the kidnapper from this Jane Doe?”