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"What about your social media posts, Jason?"she asked."You spoke about making theLiarspay.You wanted revenge on the people who fired you, didn't you?"
"They were empty threats, I promise."All of his confidence was lost."It’s not like people don't do that all the time.I was angry about being fired, and I posted stuff online, but it wasn’t serious.It was just letting off some steam, that’s all."
"That’s how you let off steam?"Derek asked.
Jason didn't answer.
"How about your whereabouts over the past few days?"Derek pushed."Where have you been in the evenings?"
"I didn't kill anyone," Jason replied.
"Then we don't have any problems," Derek replied."How about you tell us where you’ve been, we check that out, and everyone goes home happy?"
Jason was breathing a little heavier as the interview went on."The last few evenings?I’ve been out on calls for the last week.I work seven days, we all do."
"Great," Derek said."So, you have people who can place you at certain locations?"
"Yes," Jason sighed in relief before grimacing again."Well, not quite.I’ve been doing routine checks and upgrades for customers, and some of them can be done remotely, and others are done after hours when no one is around, but I’ll have the logs of the work I’ve done."
"But the work can be done remotely?"Alison asked."From anywhere?"
"No, well yeah, but I was on location for some of it."
"With no one there," Derek pointed out.
"Yeah, but there was CCTV.I must be on camera at some point.I must be."
"We’ll need to check that out," Derek told him."I want a list of the places you were over the previous five nights, and we can go from there."
"No problem at all," Derek said."I’ll go back to the office and get all of that information for you right now."
"We can't let you do that, I’m afraid," Derek said."We can have someone go over there and collect everything you need or call them for information, but we don't want you trying to run from us again."
"Am I being detained?"Jason asked.
"No," Derek replied."I’d prefer if you remained here voluntarily as a show of good faith, but I will have to detain you if not.As we discussed, you have nothing to worry about if you didn't do anything wrong, right?"
"Yeah, of course," Jason said."I can give you a list of what I need and what you should access on our system, and I’m sure we can clear all of this up.I just need to get back to work as soon as possible."
"I’m glad we’re on the same page," Derek said."I’ll have someone bring you a pen and paper, and you can start working on a timeline, and they’ll assist you in obtaining what you need.We appreciate your cooperation, Jason."
Jason wiped the sweat from his forehead."Yeah, no problem."
Derek and Alison left the room together.
"He’s cooperating for now, but he was in deep with the criminals in the prison, and I’m sure whatever he spoke about in there was only the tip of the iceberg," Derek said.
"If he’s willing to give up a percentage of the income of his company, they must have something substantial on him," Alison agreed.
"Enough to have him do their bidding," Derek said."Let’s see if he has an alibi for the murders, and if not, we go digging."
A special agent walked toward them holding a document in his hand as if he’d struck gold.
"Sullivan," Special Agent Loxley said."We found this online, posted on the Balanced Justice website.You’re going to want to take a look.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Derek took the document from Loxley.It was a printout of a photo from the website showing Sarah Livingstone being confronted outside what looked like a court building.A man accosted her, pointing a finger into her face as if he were about to jab her in the eye.Beneath the picture was a caption.
