Looking at Detective Evans’ Quiet Apartment

Losing a pet is sad. Losing your constant companion is hard. Detective Evans is grieving but at least she can throw herself into her work…

Well, it finally happened. Intruder Alert went silent. I looked all over and found him burrowed under the sofa pillow. He passed sometime after I left for work. I’m going to bury him in my parent’s backyard. The apartment is really quiet now. Shots seems to think that I shouldn’t get another cat. I think he’s sort of right. I’m going to wait until the right cat comes along. Finding a cat seems easier than finding a man. I did go on a date. It was miserable. No more speed dating, ever!

I managed to solve a nasty cold case. It happened 10 years earlier and involved a girl who’d gone missing from her backyard. It was as if she’d been abducted by aliens since the gates were locked and too high for someone to have easily scaled with a kicking and screaming child. The detectives had ruled out the parents as suspects and they had zero leads. The child was found in a suitcase in the woods 30 miles from her home. I was able to match the one finger print on the suitcase. The computer database is really coming in handy! The print belonged to a woman who was doing time for extortion. I interviewed her at the state penitentiary. She was one pissed inmate. She was more than ready to implicate her partner in crime. Supposedly her lover was going to kidnap a child from a rich family and they were going to ask for a million in ransom.

Turns out he decided to do a “trial run” and when he accidentally suffocated the kid, he stuffed her in our convict’s suitcase. Then he lied to her and said it wouldn’t work so they did what they always did. That being she’d pose as a prostitute and get a business man in a compromising position, he’d take photos and they’d blackmail the mark by threatening to send the photos to his wife. She got caught and he disappeared. She coughed up his name, various aliases, and the make and model of his car. She’s lined up to testify against him in court, without any promises of shortened prison time. That kind of outcome makes it worthwhile. It doesn’t bring back the child but at least the parents get to know the whole story and hopefully find some peace.