As Paul watched the tapes he did find the vehicle that had left that day. But the tape was dark and very hard to see. He would have to have the tape enhanced . One of his men was very good at enhancing tapes and he would put him to good use.
Della had just bought a new program that would allow her to look further into people and their lives with ease. It was surprising to her to find out just how much could be found out about a person with this program. With relative ease she was able to find out information on both Terry Sanders and Joe Dawson. It was amazing what people would put on line without thinking.
After a few hours of investigating Della came across a site that caught her eye indeed. It was a site on facebook involving a man named Mark Dawson and JoAnn Grace. It did not take Della long to discover that this was really Joe Dawson and Joann Sanders. They had used their middle names instead of their first names and when she looked on the page she had a surprise in front of her.
On this site there were many pictures of Joe and Joann where they appeared as a couple, not as sister and brother in law. They were at the beach embracing and there was a picture of the two of them together walking on the beach holding hands. Della shook her head. This was something that Perry needed to see.
As Della knocked on the door and walked into Perry Mason's private office, he saw that she was carrying her laptop. She showed her boss the site and all of the photos. Perry looked at them and smiled. "Get hold of Paul Drake I want him to look into these pictures. I want to know more about Terry's sister JoAnn. But I don't want to tell Terry that I know anything right now."
Della called Paul on the phone and he said that he would be right over. Paul had been at his office that was just down the hall a short way from the Mason office when Della had called. He was still waiting for his man to finish working on the tape.
Paul knocked on the back door to his friend's office and Della answered the door. Once Paul and Della had taken their seats Paul started to talk about what he had found out. "I have been to the apartment building where the murder occurred "Lilly Greene is the name of the lady that manages the apartment and she stated that she neither saw or heard anything on the day of the murder. But she did give me a tape of the complex and one of my men is working on enhancing it. The tape is too dark and I can't see the plate number yet. But I have a neighbor named Debbie Lenois she heard a noise that she thought was a car back firing and within a few minutes saw a blue Toyota leaving the complex in a hurry. I have found the car and am now trying to have the plates enhanced. Then I will go and make a visit to the driver. Lily says that she is unfamiliar with the Toyota." he told them.
"There is something else that I want you to look into." Della showed Paul the site that she had found on line and Paul looked at it with deep interest. The site definitely indicated the Joe Dawson and Terry's sister JoAnn were having affair. "I will get right on this too." Paul told them.
Both Perry and Della spent the rest of the day working on the case. Della had some more work that she wanted to do on her laptop and Perry had some serious lawyer work ahead for him. It was almost three hours later that Perry heard the familiar knock on the back door of the office once more. He opened the door to his friend Paul Drake.
"I have a plate number on the Toyota. It belongs to a Gretchen Deane. She worked with Joe. I have information on her. She is twenty-seven years old and has worked with Joe for the last three years. Word was going around the office that she and Joe were seeing each other outside of the office. If what the other workers told me is true our Joe was a busy man." Paul told him.
"Well look into it a little further Paul. " Perry looked up and saw Della walking into the room. He smiled at her and said "It seems that our boy Joe had another friend a lady that he worked with named Gretchen Deane. I want you to use your laptop there and see if you can find anyone else that Joe might have been seeing. I also would like to have all the information that you can get on Joe and this other lady Gretchen." he told her.
Della was thrilled at the prospect of finding some other women that Joe might have been seeing. It required some investigation and she was anxious to get started on it. This new program was great and she was going to have to look up this Joe Dawson in everyway possible. As Della went back to her desk she started searching. She had been working on her computer for several hours when she finally found a hit. This was Joe and he was on the site with another woman. This woman called herself Shauna Davis. As she walked in Perry's office she smiled at him and showed him the page. Joe was indeed a busy man and when the DA found out about it she was sure that this would make Terry look more guilty.
In the meantime Gretchen Williams had been reading the afternoon paper. In the paper was a picture of Joe her Joe. It said that he had been murdered and that his girl friend of the past few years was being charged with his murder. 'This can't be my Joe. We were going to be married ' she thought to herself. But as she read the article the tears came flowing down her face. Apparently her Joe was not the man he had presented himself to her as.