Don't Scream

chapter 14

The attorney blew in like a tornado. Brian Thought. Her name was Dayna Tyler.. she was tall and slim she had long brown hair and big blue eyes.

"Harassing good citizens again.Lieutenant?" she asked Looking at Phil.She turned to Brian and said"Who are you?

"Brian Ful--

"He is former special agent Brian Fuller with the FBI."

"Former? she asked "Who is he now?"

"I asked him to consult with me. He has knowledge of a related case Phil answered."Could we talk about the case now?"

"Sure obstruction of justice? what kind of charge is that?"

"Its a charge to shake the woman into identifying a man calling her on her phone Phil said."A man we think committed a murder 9 years ago and might be at it again."

She straightened. Hadn't expected that Brian thought.

"Tell me." she said.

Brian told her first of Gloria Michaels, Then Phil laid out the dead girl in Seattle and the missing Denver woman and their phones being used to call Sarra.

"Did my client admit to talking to anyone?"

"she claims they were obscene phone calls."

She rolled her eyes "You guys are incred-------

"Whoa there is more. Phil said Sarra got another call a few hours ago from the cell phone belonging to a third woman whose family says she disappeared this morning in Omaha we got the recording of that call."

"Shit" Dayna said. she drew a breath through her nose." Have you told Sarra this man is a murderer?"

"Not yet." Phil said.

"And why is that?" afraid of another lawsuit she looked back and fourth between them a smug look on her face. "You are not sure this caller murdered anyone at all are you?" Phil opened his mouth but she held up a hand."The Seattle woman's phone was never found. so anyone could of used it and what about the Denver woman? You are not even sure she is a victim of foul play."

"That is bull shit," Brian said but Phil cut in.

"Maybe not"

"What?" Brian asked and Phil looked at the floor.

"A little while ago Denver FBI got Thelma cox's support group counselor talking." Phil said "The day she disappeared Cox had learned the cancer wan't gone.

She was despondent, talking about not wanting her son to have to deal with her care and all that."

"Ah man." Brian said.

"so Dayna said."the counselor believes she might have run off or killed herself.?"

"And wiped down her own fucking car.? Brian shot back"Made a phone call to same woman as Jessica Davis?'

Daynna was undaunted."And let me guess the omaha woman isn't officially missing You said she dissapered this morning."

"She skipped an appt. that's all Phil said. But her family insist that is not like her."He suddenly looked beat. People thought that cops had ulcers from criminals they got them from attorneys.

Of course If Brian was being totally honest the information about The Denver woman  threw him for a loop, too. Maybe they didn't really have 2 missing woman. Maybe they had some woman with cancer who ran away and another who simply forgot about a hair apt. and scared her family half to death. Maybe some random stranger who made random calls to Sarra Jane. And maybe all the likenesses between the murders of Gloria Michaels and Jessica Davis was figments of Brian's imagination.