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Jack and Sam drove to Paul's car dealership in silence. It was near their own headquarters, further into the centre of the city, and took a good 10 minutes to get there.

'We need to take this casually,' Jack said, as they walked among the cars to Paul's office. 'We can't go throwing around accusations. I'll ask Paul when the last time he saw his daughter was and give him the chance to tell us. I'll take it from there.'

'Right,' Sam nodded.

They reached Paul's office, and Jack knocked on the door.

'Come in,' called the voice of Mr. Richmond. He looked up in surprise when Jack and Sam walked in.

'Agent Malone. Agent Spade. I was expecting someone else,' Paul said shiftily.

'We've come to talk you about your daughter,' Jack said. 'May we sit down?'

'Of course,' Paul said, motioning to two chairs on the opposite side of him across his large desk.

Jack and Sam sat down.

'Have you come across anything new?' Paul asked.

Jack shook his head. 'I'm just trying to get together all of the facts. When was the last time you saw your daughter?'

'Before she went up to the cottage,' Paul said without hesitation.

'Are you sure about that?' Jack asked.

'Positive,' Paul said, narrowing his small eyes.

'Were you aware your daughter was having a relationship with Will Holmes?' Jack asked.

'No I wasn't,' Paul said, his mouth a thin straight line. 'Is it true?'

Jack nodded.

'Well then you should be out there, talking to him. If what you say is so, then surely that's all the more reason to suspect him.'

'I thought you didn't think it had anything to do with Will Holmes,' Sam pointed out.

Paul opened his mouth to reply, but before he could, Jack continued,

'We've actually just been talking to Mr. Holmes. He seemed to think you knew about their relationship. In fact, he told us that you walked in on them, in that cottage, in bed together.'

Sam half expected Paul to crumble then, but he held Jack's gaze, his face unfaltering.

'Okay. So I walked in on them in bed together. Do you really think I was going to tell you? Do you think I wanted strangers knowing what kind of daughter I'd raised?'

'So you failed to mention it,' Jack said flatly. 'Despite the fact that it could have been crucial for the investigation into finding your daughter. You do know that makes you the last person to have seen you daughter?'

Paul narrowed his eyes. 'If you're accusing me of anything, I think we should do this with my lawyer present, don't you?'

'Maybe we should,' Jack agreed. 'I presume neither you or your lawyer will have any objections to the DNA team going over your car?'

'DNA?' Paul frowned.

'Oh yes,' Jack nodded. 'Police investigation has come along in leaps and bounds over the last twenty years. DNA evidence is now thought of as important evidence.'

Paul's face paled. 'What reason do you have to search my car? Melissa is my daughter for God's sakes.'

'Yes Mr. Richmond she is, but you were the last person to see her alive, and that makes you a suspect,' Sam said, sitting forward in her seat. She had been sitting quietly, watching Paul very closely.

'So you call your lawyer, and we'll go back to the station, and call the DNA team,' Jack said, knowing he now had the upper hand. 'Unless there's something you'd like to tell us first?'

'If you tell us where she is, things will be a lot easier on you,' Sam urged.

Jack frowned at Sam, he wanted to get more evidence before outright accusing Paul. However, Paul lowered his head, and looked defeated. 'I don't think things can get any easier on me.' He sighed and his hands now trembling, pulled out a cigarette. He took a moment to light it, and then spoke again.

'Melissa was my princess, you know? My baby girl, my shining jewel. I thought if I could raise her well, I would be making up for all the mistakes I'd made in my life. I used to think as highly of the girl as her mother did, maybe more so. I was an idiot.' He laughed bitterly.

'I tried to put you off talking to Will. I figured if Melissa had been screwing him, there must have been others, boys at school she'd been with behind our backs. I hoped that Alice would have sent you down some other path. I didn't count on her knowing as well. You shouldn't have even been involved...I was planning to just hire a private detective, and point him in the "right" direction. But Joanne had to go and call you.'

'What did you do to Melissa, Paul?' Sam asked tentatively.

He put a hand to his head and rubbed it as if in pain. 'I didn't mean to hit her. I was so angry. All my illusions of her had just been shattered. Maybe if she had been with a boy of her own age, it wouldn't have been so bad, but she had been with him, my ex best friend who stabbed me in the back and accused me of killing his wife.'

When Paul moved his hand a little, Sam could see his eyes were filled with tears. 'I loved Sandy.'

'Like you loved your daughter?' Jack said softly.

Paul let out dry sob. 'Do you have a daughter Agent Malone?'

'I have two,' Jack affirmed.

'How would you feel? How would you feel if you saw your daughter, who you loved so much, and had so much faith in, behaving like a cheap slut and a whore? It was the ultimate betrayal!' Paul exclaimed.

'I would never hurt either of my daughters,' Jack told him. 'Is Melissa dead, Mr Richmond?'

'I didn't realised what I had done,' Paul choked. 'She was on the floor...I thought she was unconscious. I put her in my car, to take her to hospital. When I stopped to look at a map...I looked at Melissa, and I knew she was dead. She just looked lifeless.' Paul looked down at his hands. 'How could I have killed her? I still don't understand it.'

'Where is she?' Sam said, taking a calming breath. It all seemed so horrific.

'I took her back...back to the woods near the cottage, and I buried her. I panicked, I didn't know what else to do. Oh God, it's going to be bad for me, isn't it?

Jack paused for a moment. 'I think it's time to go, Mr. Richmond'