Heading back to the station Kate got a call from Lanie on the way saying she had the autopsy results ready. So she and Castle headed straight to the basement while Ryan and Espisito tried to find out the friends name. "Lane what you got for me?"
"Alright well the vic was killed by a 38 to the chest it hit her heart so she died pretty quickly. I also found some bruises on her back, arms and legs. Looks like she may have been abused before and there was some newer bruises on her hands and upper arms that looks like she may have fought her attacker before they shot her."
"Looks like we need to talk to the boyfriend again see if he was the one abusing her."
Kate sat in the interrogation room across from Devon Micheals, "We found bruises all over your girlfriend Devon care to tell me how they got there?"
"Wait you don't think I did it do you? Her father was abusive which is why she moved out on her own. I would never lay a hand on her. I loved her, Detective."
"Did she tell you it was her father?"
"Yes and I witnessed it first hand. I was at her house one night and we were in her bedroom, her father came in yelling about something so I hid in the closet so he wouldn't see me there. He grabbed her arm and yelled at her and then when she said he was hurting her he punched her in the face."
"You didn't try to stop him?"
"Yeah I flung open the doors and grabbed him told him not to touch her, he shoved me and said he would hit her if he wanted to. She moved out shortly after that."
"Where do her parents live?"
"He mom died when she was ten and her father became an alcoholic after her death. He was a violent drunk and a few months ago he was picked up for driving drunk, not the first time. Plus he hit someone with his car so he's still in jail."
"Alright I checked into the father he is still in prison and he was roughed up pretty bad by some of the other inmates last night."
"So we need some new leads," Ryan said. "We got nothing."
"Did you find the name of the friend in the building?" Kate asked.
"No."
"Did you talk to the super?"
"Yeah he said the girl kept to herself that he never seen her with anyone else in the building."
"Maybe she lied to the boyfriend about a friend in the building."
"Hey maybe she was meeting another guy?" Castle said crumpling up a piece of paper he had been writing on.
"Could be."
"Beckett, we got a hit on the prints Lanie found on the body." Espisito said bringing over a file. They came from a man named Davis Bedford."
"Alright now we got something, let's go see this guy."
