Chapter 6

A half an hour later, Luke and Laura were still looking through Theresa Carter's file.  They had found a lot of information on her, but nothing they could use.

"This woman was reprimanded a lot," Laura said with amazement.  "I'm surprised that they never fired her."

"She was probably sleeping with someone in charge."

"Luke, I'm sure Steve Hardy wouldn't…"

"I didn't mean Steve.  There were lots of other people that would have been above her."

Laura nodded.  She began reading the paper in her hand with great interest.  "Luke I think I have something."

Luke laid down the paper he was holding to give her his full attention.  "What did you find."

"An emergency contact for Theresa.  It's her sister."

"Does it have an address?"

"Yes, in Rochester.  There's also a phone number."

"Let me see that," Luke said taking the paper from her.  "Sarah Yates, 123 Elm Street, Rochester, NY.   555-1246.  Relationship: sister," he read aloud.  "Well let's try this number and see if Mrs. Yates still lives there."

He walked to the phone and dialed the number.  An answering machine picked up.  "You have reached the Yates residence, we cannot take your…"  Luke hung up before the machine finished.

"The phone number is the same and I'm guessing that the address is too," Luke said.

"So we're going to Rochester?" Laura asked.

"You got it.  Get your stuff together.  I'll go check us out of the hotel."

A short time later, they were in the rental car on their way to Rochester.

***

An hour later, Luke stopped the car outside Sarah Yates house.  He and Laura got out and walked up to the door.  When he knocked on the door it swung open.

"I don't like this," Luke said.  "Stay behind me."

They slowly entered the house and began to search it.

"Let's split up," Luke said.  "You take upstairs.  Be careful."

Laura went upstairs.  The first door she tried led to a small bedroom.  She went inside and started searching through the dresser.  She found nothing that would be important to them.  She moved onto the nightstand and opened the drawer.  Inside was a book.  Laura took it out and flipped through it.  It appeared to be a diary.  She started to put it back in the drawer when she noticed that it went back to 1978.

She sat down on the bed and started checking the entries around the day that Theresa was killed.  She found the entry where Sarah had written about her sister's death.  Laura flipped a few more pages and read an entry that made her gaso.  She stuffed the diary into her pocket and went to find Luke.

Meanwhile Luke continued to search the living room.  He didn't find anything so he went into the kitchen.  There on the floor lay Sarah Yates.  Luke bent down to see if she was all right and discovered that she was dead.  He stood up and started to back away from the body.

"Freeze!" said a voice behind him.

He turned around to find himself staring into the barrel of a gun held by a Rochester Police Officer.