Chapters (92)
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 31
- Chapter 32
- Chapter 33
- Chapter 34
- Chapter 35
- Chapter 36
- Chapter 37
- Chapter 38
- Chapter 39
- Chapter 40
- Chapter 41
- Chapter 42
- Chapter 43
- Chapter 44
- Chapter 45
- Chapter 46
- Chapter 47
- Chapter 48
- Chapter 49
- Chapter 50
- Chapter 51
- Chapter 52
- Chapter 53
- Chapter 54
- Chapter 55
- Chapter 56
- Chapter 57
- Chapter 58
- Chapter 59
- Chapter 60
- Chapter 61
- Chapter 62
- Chapter 63
- Chapter 64
- Chapter 65
- Chapter 66
- Chapter 67
- Chapter 68
- Chapter 69
- Chapter 70
- Chapter 71
- Chapter 72
- Chapter 73
- Chapter 74
- Chapter 75
- Chapter 76
- Chapter 77
- Chapter 78
- Chapter 79
- Chapter 80
- Chapter 81
- Chapter 82
- Chapter 83
- Chapter 84
- Chapter 85
- Chapter 86
- Chapter 87
- Chapter 88
- Author Biography
Caitlin laughed. “How could they not?”
“Frodo spent the night driving drunks around and is accounted for until five AM. Where was I?”
“Kilroy’s Sports,” Caitlin answered. “Why’d it take so long to get there?”
Greenwood returned the screen to the text message spreadsheet. “Amireau and Michelson said they stopped for a street dog. Also confirmed by a text Chapman got from Anjale. She asks OK? Chapman replies, F’d up, Going to Sports, Gonna eat some SAUSAGE first. As you can see, these two were fast exchanges, both within the minute. No reply from Anjale until eleven twenty-one. She came back with, It’s ur body. Eleven twenty-three, Chapman replied with, We’ll talk 2mrw.”
He opened a video clip. “They entered Kilroy’s at eleven thirty-two. Second bouncer that day that didn’t flag Angela’s fake ID.”
The brief video showed Angela Chapman and her two male escorts walking happily into a crowded bar.
Maverick leaned against the wall near the TV. “They blend in until one fifteen AM, when our girl goes all Sleeping Beauty near the beer garden and hits the ground. Security kicks them out.”
Caitlin looked to Greenwood, but saw no action. “No video?”
He shrugged. “Witnesses said it happened too fast to get their phones out, and the security cameras pointed the other way. We’ve got them on the way out, though.”
He clicked another clip taken from an external camera. Michelson argued with a bouncer, while Amireau dragged Angela Chapman out the door, her arm draped around his shoulder, her eyes barely open. She might have been sixty sheets to the wind, but she laughed the whole way out.
Maverick pushed off the wall and sat on the edge of the table near Caitlin. “Okay, she’s drunk as hell, safe to assume coked up, and out with a guy she regularly had sex with and his coke-snorting friend. No car. What do they do?”
Caitlin checked her notes, didn’t see an answer. “Where do the boys live?”
Greenwood pulled up the map they’d started with. “Less than quarter of a mile from Chapman’s place. The Varsity Villas.”
Caitlin put herself in the same location twenty years earlier. “They walk home—unless they went to another party?”
Maverick tapped on the table. “Right on both counts. They walked to the boys’ place, hit the bathroom, then went two streets over to an apartment party. Other guests said they arrived around two.”
“Why do people remember that?”
Maverick reached into her pocket, pulled out a pack of gum, and popped a piece in her mouth. “Amireau brought a bottle of vodka when supplies were low. Plus, there was a fistfight.”
“Do tell.”