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Chapters (92)
  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Chapter 1
  5. Chapter 2
  6. Chapter 3
  7. Chapter 4
  8. Chapter 5
  9. Chapter 6
  10. Chapter 7
  11. Chapter 8
  12. Chapter 9
  13. Chapter 10
  14. Chapter 11
  15. Chapter 12
  16. Chapter 13
  17. Chapter 14
  18. Chapter 15
  19. Chapter 16
  20. Chapter 17
  21. Chapter 18
  22. Chapter 19
  23. Chapter 20
  24. Chapter 21
  25. Chapter 22
  26. Chapter 23
  27. Chapter 24
  28. Chapter 25
  29. Chapter 26
  30. Chapter 27
  31. Chapter 28
  32. Chapter 29
  33. Chapter 30
  34. Chapter 31
  35. Chapter 32
  36. Chapter 33
  37. Chapter 34
  38. Chapter 35
  39. Chapter 36
  40. Chapter 37
  41. Chapter 38
  42. Chapter 39
  43. Chapter 40
  44. Chapter 41
  45. Chapter 42
  46. Chapter 43
  47. Chapter 44
  48. Chapter 45
  49. Chapter 46
  50. Chapter 47
  51. Chapter 48
  52. Chapter 49
  53. Chapter 50
  54. Chapter 51
  55. Chapter 52
  56. Chapter 53
  57. Chapter 54
  58. Chapter 55
  59. Chapter 56
  60. Chapter 57
  61. Chapter 58
  62. Chapter 59
  63. Chapter 60
  64. Chapter 61
  65. Chapter 62
  66. Chapter 63
  67. Chapter 64
  68. Chapter 65
  69. Chapter 66
  70. Chapter 67
  71. Chapter 68
  72. Chapter 69
  73. Chapter 70
  74. Chapter 71
  75. Chapter 72
  76. Chapter 73
  77. Chapter 74
  78. Chapter 75
  79. Chapter 76
  80. Chapter 77
  81. Chapter 78
  82. Chapter 79
  83. Chapter 80
  84. Chapter 81
  85. Chapter 82
  86. Chapter 83
  87. Chapter 84
  88. Chapter 85
  89. Chapter 86
  90. Chapter 87
  91. Chapter 88
  92. 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.”