Page 154 of Icy Cold Death

She didn’t say anything—not at first. It took a few seconds for her to gather her thoughts.

“And he helps you do your jobs?”

She nodded.

Tori liked her.

The second they realized she had a gift, and it was the same as Hart’s, she wanted to collect this woman for their team. She’d given her notice, and she was about to be a free agent.

Tori knew she had to time this just right.

“How about you tell us what you can about this case?” Tori asked, needing the woman to get comfortable with them. “I know we can’t use your partner’s files, so how about you show us what you can do?”

That worked for her.

“I can do that. Like you already know, in July, women started going missing. This was when my partner was working without me.”

They let her continue.

“He chased a few leads, or so he says, and talked to people, but he didn’t find anything.”

“Supposedly,” Bishop said. “I work cold cases, so I know what we’re going to have to do to solve this.”

Yeah, go back to the drawing board.

Genesis was honest.

“Most of the cops believe that the women left the area and didn’t look back. They didn’t have ties here except for friends.”

That was interesting.

“And your partner found nothing?”

She shook her head.

“We never found their purses, phones, anything. No cars other than one victim. There was supposedly nada. Just poof.”

“Did your partner get warrants on their phones when he was working it?”

She laughed.

“Here’s the kicker. What I’ve come up with after the fact, is that the killer had to have given them a burner phone. When we got warrants and pulled their phone records, they were clean. No one contacted them on those phones.”

Clever.

So someone had covered their trail. That made them suspicious.

They let her talk.

“That you solved three missing cold cases in a matter of minutes tells me that something fishy is going on here. Those women weren’t dumped there by three different people.”

Oh, there was no way.

The dead told her as much.

“They said they were in the park. That water way likely connects. That’s why they were found downstream.”

She nodded.

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