Disclaimer: I wish I owned all the people I've included in my story, and I don't get to make any money off of this either, so don't sue me, I'm broke anyway.
Summary: She is hunted by the men that killed her husband. He lost his family to a tragic car accident.. Can life go on? Or is more tragity thrown in the mix?
Characters: Mark Calloway & OC's (Some other WWE characters might show up)
A/N- All I can say is WOW! I am so glad to see that all of you are still hangin' in there with me. Thank you PhoenixSatori10,viper-sa, m4ever,NSB and coors1977 for your reviews on the last chapter. I took the advice of one of you, coors1977, for this chapter. I am not going to make any promises for future chapters, just know that I haven't given up on this story. I still have so many ideas and with Christmas season drawing to a close I will eventually have more time. In my business it is a big deal and with Taxes coming up next I will still be busy but I will deffinately have a bunch more time on my hands. This is a short chapter but I think that I will be answering a few burning questions all of you may have... And it may shock a few of you if you read between the lines. I'd be interested to see if any of you figure it out. Please Review!
Stacy

Chapter 24

"So, Scott did you find anything on the missing car?" Detective Mackey asked his partner as he took his seat across from him.

Scott nodded his head solemnly. "Yeah. Once I ran the information on KatlynMaddox's carthrough the data base, I found out that it had been impounded the day after the house fire. Apparently it had sat in the parking lot of 'Casa Blanca' for a few days before the manager called it in and had it towed. I went down to the storage lot and had it brought down to the lab so that they could do some tests, but from what they've told me so far, the car's clean. What did you and the rookie find out?"

"Well, after we left you, I went down and talked with the captain to see if he would loan me a few men to go down to the house and search through the ashes. Which, by the way, he doesn't want us to blow the lid on our findings or the new theory just yet. But there were six of us total. The rookie ended up finding a rather large piece of bone that hadn't been too charred. One of the guys from the lab was there and he said that it looked like the body had been placed on the bed and that the fire was started there. He said that with the mattress and box springs and the added fuel that the person used to start the fire, that we were lucky to find anything at all."

"Did they already run the tests?"

"Yes, and the DNA from the bone matched the hair follicle we retrieved from the Valentino home."

Shaking his head, Scott moved from behind his desk to place the findings on the board with all of the other facts from the case. " You know we are going to have to find another dry erase board pretty soon." He announced as he stepped back to glance at all the evidence that stained the once white shinny board.

John too stood from his desk and moved to stand next to his partner. " You know there is something just not right about this new turn of events." He admitted earning him a glare from the younger detective. "I mean, everything that we've heard about Katlyn Maddox goes against our present theory. Everything we know about this woman has been positive. Even with her family situation. Sure, they hated Michael and his wild ways and all the things he put her through, but they ended up regretting turning their back on her. Everyone that we've spoken to has said that she was a good natured, fun loving sort and that she always had enough of a mind to try and defuse a situation before it got out of hand. People around this case are saying that she is the reason Michael agreed to turn it all around."

"Too bad she didn't turn him around before he committed vehicular homicide." Scott snorted rudely before moving to pace the area. "Look, you and I both know that no matter how good someone can be, they always have this switch inside their brains that goes crazy when their lives get turned upside down. How many times have we had to arrest someone that we thought to be totally innocent of the crimes we've pegged them for? Michael had his fair share of problems. He loved to find the easy way out of shit. Think about the long list of gambling charges he has against him… and the not so recent DUI that has a homicide attached to it. To look at that man you would never suspect him to be a killer. But he is. He killed a woman and her child and fled the scene, only to pop up a day or two later with his lawyer, who got him off until the trial."

"A trial that the husband probably doesn't know isn't going to happen now, because the assailant is dead." John nodded. "But, through it all Katlyn has been clean. I read in the gambling files that she knew nothing of what her husband was doing. She was naïve to the fact that he wasn't working, like he said he was, that she fought the police tooth and nail until Michael admitted to her that he had done what they claimed he had."

"But like you said, what if this is a woman that has gotten so tired of her husbands antics that she flipped her own switch?" Scott debated. "After everything that she had to loose to just be with the man she loved to go and find out that he not only was going to be put away for homicide, but he was cheating on her before the trial. I can only imagine what that woman was thinking."

"You know, I'm thinking that he kept this from her like he did everything else. Look I was talking with a few of the 'lab rats' and we were trying to figure out how Katlyn would have the ability to do what we think she's done and it isn't working out…"

"What are you talking about?" Scott asked, his irritation coming through the tone of his voice. "We have more than enough to go on. Motive. Reason. Ability…"

John stopped his partner before he could continue. "What ability, Scott? The woman is five foot… maybe six inches tall and she only weighs about a buck twenty. How would she have the ability to tote around a man twice her size at a dead weight? If she did kill him, then she would've had to of shot him in one location. Loaded him up in his car, drive to the spot out in the desert and then unload him. How could she do that all by herself and leave nothing for us to go on? Men our size couldn't do that alone and be that clean, let alone a woman like her."

"I see your point, John, but what if she had help?" Scott inquired trying to rule out all possibilities.

"Who would help her? I mean c'mon, her family turned their backs on her. The only friend she had was her assistant. From the information that we've gathered Katlyn Maddox was rarely alone. No neighbors saw anyone else and every ounce of evidence that we've pulled up on her has come back right on track. There is hardly a time when we cannot account for her where-a-bouts. So tell me how she could've done it."

Heaving a defeated breath, Scott turned to his partner. "OK. OK. Let's say she didn't do it… Then who did? Who would have wanted Michael Maddox and Juanita Valentino dead?"

"I don't know." John admitted, turning his attentions back to the board. "That is the mystery."