An Unladylike Murder, page 30
part #1 of Jessica Sloan Mystery Series
“Until the conversation, I thought of those damn things as a solution in search of a problem.”
Lieutenant Brown walked in and everyone stopped talking.
“Cutter, glad I caught you.”
“What’s up, Lieutenant?”
“This morning I got calls from the Police Commissioner and Governor telling me to solve this case post haste. Apparently, technology CEOs throughout the state are suddenly nervous. They’re hiring all the security they can find to guard themselves and their buildings. I was told they are even bringing in people from back East.”
“As you can tell from the murder board, we’re still in the fact finding stage.”
“I know, but it’s my job to make sure the shit from above keeps rolling down to where it belongs.”
Cutter watched Brown walk out of the room before he turned to Sloan. “Do you have any good news for me this morning, Sloan?”
“Jill’s company finally emailed me the list of patients that died while using their product.”
Cutter felt he might finally have a break in the case. “How many are on that list?”
“Twenty-seven.”
“Jesus. That seems high. I guess Jill’s product really did have problems.”
Sloan tried to temper him. “Don’t forget the people using the product were sick to begin with.”
“Do we know if any of the relatives have complained or started a lawsuit?”
“All twenty seven victims have a relative suing the company in a class action lawsuit. They also sent over the associated email, snail mail and texts with threats against Jill and others in the company.”
“Were any individuals making threats?”
“Three who were also on the list of twenty-seven.”
“You and I should interview them.”
“I’ll call and set them up.”
Jessica started making phone calls.
Half an hour later, Jessica looked at John. “The lawyer from Jill’s company just sent me an email with the list of all employees who have been terminated by the company or have left of their own accord over the last year.”
Cutter looked back at her. “How big is the list?”
“Eighty-four.”
“Yikes.” He lowered his voice. “I think I’ll ask Garcia and Lee to do those interviews for us. What do ya’ll think?”
“Why?”
Cutter said, “If I was an ex-employee, why would I kill her? There are plenty of good paying jobs out there for a medical or techy person. I would think they could get a job within a week or even sooner. Now if the company had been successful, then maybe, just maybe, one of them could be pissed off because then they would have missed a huge payday. But since the company is failing, my gut says it doesn’t make sense for someone from the company to have killed her.”
Sloan went along. “I’m okay with that because after Garcia and Lee interview everyone, they’ll enter the information into the database and iPoirot will find out if there’s any connections we’re missing.”
“You mean if it ever gets to work. Meanwhile, why don’t you set up meetings with the three relatives who threatened Jill.”
“Gotcha, I will.”
Acknowledgments
In no particular order, I would like to thank the following for their help and input. Without them, this story would not have been told.
Detective Adam Richardson, Detective Tim Moore, Denise Wysocki, John Schoutsen, Bernie Binder MD, Ellen McIsaac and Susan DiGiovanni.
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