“Lee Wang called. A nurse who works at St. Timothy’s—which is about six blocks away—seems to be missing.”

“Oh Lord. What’s her name?”

“Adrianna Blanc. According to her DMV license, she’s twenty-eight, blue eyes, brown hair, five six, a hundred and twenty-five pounds.”

“Married?”

“Single.”

“Who reported her missing?”

“Her mother. She went to her apartment to drop off some things this morning and her daughter wasn’t there. Her bed hadn’t been slept in.”

“Maybe she slept somewhere else.”

“Her mother has made some calls. Her boyfriend is away with his two best friends on vacation. Her other best girlfriends can’t get hold of her. Apparently, Adrianna finished up her shift at the hospital this morning, but no one has heard from her since. Her car is still in the parking lot of St. Tim’s.”

“That’s not good.” Decker rubbed his forehead. “Where’s Mom?”

“Her name is Kathy Blanc and she’s at the station house,” Marge told him.

“And Lee’s with her?”

“Lee made the call. Wanda Bontemps is with her now.”

“Tell Wanda to keep her there. I’ll come in and talk to her.”

“That’s already done,” Marge said. “I used a computer in one of the cruisers to bring up her DMV picture to see if we’re in the ballpark.” She handed him a slip of paper. “Kinda fuzzy, but it’s a possibility. We could bring Mom down for identification in person or we could take some of George’s snapshots to her.”

Decker stared at the DMV photo. A young woman with long hair was grinning full face into the camera. “Do we have any printed postmortem photographs?”

“Yeah, these are from George’s camera, printed from his laptop.”

Decker flipped through them and compared them with the DMV photo. If he squinted hard enough, he could see that the women were one and the same. “Close enough. I’m sending you and Oliver to St. Tim’s. I’ll bring the postmortem to Mom. It’s kinder than doing an in-person ID. Have you finished canvassing the area?”

“We’ve just started…gone through a couple of blocks when Lee called in.”

“Call in Drew Messing and Willy Brubeck and have them canvass the area for Oliver and you. They can direct a team of uniforms around the neighborhood. The first thing I want you and Oliver to do is to go to St. Tim’s parking lot with a crime team and work her car over. See if that directs us somewhere. What kind of a car is it?”

“A 2002 burgundy Honda Accord.” She gave him the plate number.

“While S.I.D. is working on the car, you go into the hospital and see if you can track Adrianna Blanc’s last movements before she disappeared.”

“Will do.”