“What you’re looking at is Maggie Spritzer’s report. There is no point in going over it again. I have some additional information such as names. The loan officer at East Coast Savings was a white female named Sara Brickman. According to her employment file she is thirty-two years of age. She worked for East Coast for eighteen months. She claimed to be single when she filled out her employment application. The Social Security number listed is bogus. Sara Brickman was created out of whole cloth five years ago. There is no record of her in any of the databases before that time.”

Charles clicked a button, and a picture of Sara Brickman appeared on the plasma screen. “There is nothing outstanding about her or anything that would cause anyone to think she wasn’t who she said she was. Blond, blue-eyed. She’s five feet four inches tall. She weighed 112 pounds at the time she filled out her employment application. She claims to have been in good health and only availed herself of her health insurance twice in the eighteen months she worked at the bank. Once for a deep cut that required seven sutures when she opened a can and it sliced the palm of her hand. The second time was for multiple bee stings.

“Miss Brickman got sick at the end of her last month of employment and said she was diagnosed with mono. She was away from work for three weeks when she said she’d decided to return to her parents’ home in Texas after her recovery was not as speedy as she would have liked. She claimed no benefits from the bank for her illness. She sent a resignation letter to the bank and moved on. The detectives I have on the job said none of her coworkers have heard from her since she left. No one had a bad word to say about Miss Brickman. Her superior at the bank said she was a hard worker, often staying past closing to get caught up on paperwork. An exemplary employee.

“My investigator went to the apartment on Connecticut Avenue where Miss Brickman lived and discovered that she was indeed married and her married name was Carson. Husband’s first name was Dennis. Dennis worked for Sovereign Bank as a loan officer. Both husband and wife moved out of the apartment at the end of March, at the same time Mr. Carson resigned his position at Sovereign Bank. It seems Mr. Carson told the manager at the apartment complex’s leasing company that his mother was in ill health, and he and his wife had no choice but to break their lease and return to Colorado, where the mother lived. A neighbor said they are a nice couple, had no company that she ever saw, and that the couple kept to themselves. They both drove late-model Honda cars and both of them attended the Lutheran church on Connecticut Avenue. The neighbor said they never missed a Sunday, and she knows because she belongs to the same church.”