So right now you're getting two chapters. I took a break and went brain dead. I'll try to get two more chapters done by today to make up for my absence the past few days
It took all of thirty seconds for McGee to have Faye escorted up to the conference room. A minute later McGee followed her up with the case folder tucked into his side. He closed the door behind him to ensure privacy and sat down at the end of the table near the door. Faye was sitting a few seats down from McGee on his right.
"So, Ms. Carbol, you said that you witnessed one of the murders a few months ago?" McGee asked. His voice was soft at the moment; he didn't want to scare Faye.
Faye nodded. "Yes, I said that." She looked at the table guiltily as she realized how bad it may have looked for her and how valuable that information could have been to the police.
"Now, what exactly did you see that night?" McGee asked. He was trying his best not to pressure Faye too much. It was a huge restraint on his part because he desperately wanted the information and it wasn't coming out fast enough.
Faye glanced at the agent briefly before looking down to her lap in thought. "Um, well…" She started to think back to the night two months ago.
"And there's still no sign of the little girl." The static-altered voice of the man on the news radio station flowed out of the car speakers with a feeling of sorrow following. Anyone who was anyone knew about the brutal case of the young girls. It was now known as the "Lost Little Girl", or LLG, case to the public. It seemed innocent enough as a title, just like the little girls. It was a hot topic everywhere, which made it inescapable, which in turn made everyone glum almost all day. The third girl had gone missing, making this probably the quickest known case to the public in probably ever. Things like this weren't just ignored.
This also created a huge problem for Metro police because they were pressured a lot harder into solving it as fast as they could.
Currently, Faye was sitting in her car. She was near the Smithsonian National Zoological Park's parking lot, waiting for her friend to show up. The parking lot was a midway point between her and her friend that would allow free parking for one of their cars for the day. They planned to meet here at around five in the morning to get started on their long drive early. It was about ten minutes past five and Faye was getting very impatient.
Another voice came from the radio: "What has it been since she disappeared? Four days now?"
"That's right Jim. It's sad to say but there is reason to believe that the time limit is up for the Metropolitan police to find her." The first voice answered. The people on the radio went silent after that.
Faye heard the last part of the conversation and had to turn the radio off. She should have known that topic would come up sooner or later. She glanced at the clock and sighed. "Come on Tina, hurry up." She muttered to herself then looked out the passenger side window to look for any sign of her friend's car.
She squinted a little when she saw a person walking towards the entrance of the park. It looked like an older man carrying something in his arms. Faye leaned closer to the window and realized the man was carrying a younger girl who looked like she was asleep. Weird, I wonder what they're up to this early. Being awake this early really wasn't normal. But then again, Faye was up this early because her friend thought of this 'great' idea that she was late to. Faye couldn't help but roll her eyes and looked back out the window to watch people.
The man shifted the girl in his arms a little and continued to walk down the street to the entrance. He stopped at the crosswalk and looked both ways. There were absolutely no cars in sight, as there shouldn't be, so the man walked across the street calmly.
Faye's focus had been mostly on the girl, just staring at the long dark brown hair that dangled below her head. Inside her head, she imagined a girl with a face just as pretty as her hair. When the man stopped at the crosswalk, Faye looked up at him. She only saw the back of his head but something about him looked vaguely familiar. Being a woman, she couldn't help but look him over. He was dressed in one of those light brown heavy duty jackets that men generally used for the winter.
It is somewhat cold. Faye thought as her gaze dropped down below the waist. He had on a pair of light-colored jeans and a pair of working boots. So, really, he looked like a normal man about to go do some work.
As the man reached the other side of the street, a car came across Faye's vision. Faye looked at the car and got excited when she realized it was Tina finally showing up. She went to go look back at the man, but he seemed to disappear behind the trees. Faye just frowned a little and shrugged before looking back to Tina's car.
Faye continued explaining what happened in less detail, "Me and Tina left ten minutes after that and I never saw the man again. I had forgotten about it for a few days before I had turned on the TV and saw that another little girl was found at the zoo. I only saw her face for a brief moment before I got a call from Tina that we had to go back home to New Mexico and help out her brother with something. That afternoon out we were on the flight out and I was there until yesterday. Tina's brother, Mark, told us that we should come here and try to find Tina's other brother, Daniel. Mark said he was in some sort of trouble."
Faye shook her head as she took a deep breath. "As soon as we came back, we saw a picture of Daniel on the TV and that there was a warrant out for his arrest. Tina got really spooked and ran off. I went to a motel to get some sleep before coming here…" She got lost in thought for a moment.
McGee opened his mouth to ask another question, but Faye cut him off. "That's what was so familiar about that man then. He was Daniel…" She went silent again.
McGee looked at the table and let the information sink in. He looked back up to Faye. "Ms. Carbol, you have known the Flounds family your whole life?" Faye nodded just barely. "How did Daniel act as a child?" He asked.
Faye just looked at him with a confused expression. "I don't understand how that is relevant."
"Well we still have to make sure Daniel actually did these things. If he acted strange as a child, like if he had tendencies to lash out irrationally, that would show that he is unstable and he is more likely to do irrational things when he is older." McGee clarified as best as he could.
The woman took a moment to think. "I wasn't around Daniel a lot. He usually isolated himself, or we didn't want him to be with us because he was the youngest. Tina and Mark are twins, and we would go off while Daniel would stay home. He had weird habit so I tried to stay away from him." Faye paused briefly and tried to recall anything else. "That's really all I remember."
McGee wrote that down on a little notebook to add to Daniel's psychological profile. He nodded and said a quick thank you. "Also, you said that Tina ran off when she found out about Daniel. Do you have any idea where she is currently?" He asked.
Faye shook her head. "No. She might have gone to find him at his apartment."
Tim perked up a little when he heard that. "Do you know where he lives?"
Again, she shook her head. "No, Tina won't tell me for some reason. I've never been there either. I think he changes his apartment a lot though. I always thought it was for money issues but…" The thought didn't need to be finished because both knew what it was really for. "But I think he calls her every once in a while with the new address." She added.
Tim nodded and wrote that down as a note to himself to check it out. Could be using burn phones. Tim noted to himself. "Well you have been a huge help and if you don't mind, I'd like you to stay here for today just in case. There will be an agent outside the door that will escort you any place you need. Feel free to get food in the breakroom." McGee said with a smile and was out of the room ten seconds later.