Red_Roses_and_Black_Dahlias_-_Macy_T

“He did go through it, but nothing was missing to his knowledge, which
means they either didn’t find what they came for or they did but it was
something personal which the assistant couldn’t have known about.”
“Fuck, this is so fucking complicated.” My hands tucked at my hair.
“It is. Especially since the first culprit doesn’t have anything to do with
the mayor. I don’t even think they ever crossed paths.”
I grabbed the file with our first man’s infos on it and opened it.
“Harold Crawford, twenty nine, grew up in foster care in Ravenbridge,
lived in a small trailer park whenever he was out of jail— he was convicted
and incarcerated for car theft, housebreaking and sexual assault, served
several years in prison.”
“He was a known sex offender, there were several more complaints
against him even after he came out of prison, but somehow that motherfucker
didn’t go back to jail for it.”
“How the fuck does the Ravenbridge police work? Letting a man like that
wander their streets.” I was disgusted just looking at his file. Knowing Sofia
had came face to face with that fucker made my skin crawl.
“Yup.” Adam nodded pensively. “List of suspect is short and mainly
composed of men we knew he fucked with in the past and who have been
known accomplices of his; Ben Karrock, Jay Titcher and Hal Malcoms.” He
threw the file against the desk and laid back against his chair. “Jay moved to
Maryland two years ago, we’re still working to get in touch with him, Hal
has been in jail since last year for assault on a police officer and all that’s
left is Ben, which we haven’t been able to locate yet but the boys at IT are
working hard.”
“It just doesn’t make sense for it to be one of them.” I couldn’t take my
eyes off of Harold’s file. “These guys are clowns, they’re petty criminals at