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"So, what do we got?" Vera asked before taking a sip of his morning coffee. He sat down at his office desk as Lily sat on it. Scotty chose to stand against the wall near the corner as he waited for Lily to fill him in on the case.
Lily threw a file down on the desk. Three pictures slid out of the portfolio. One was of the murdered girl, taking her very last school photo. The second was a picture of her and her family on Christmas morning, opening gifts. The last, was of her, lying dead in the alley.
"Her name was Ashley Jenson. She was 15 years old when she was found brutally murdered," Lily said.
"Murdered how?" asked Scotty as he walked over to the desk to see the pictures. He picked the last one up and examined it.
"She wasshot to death."
Scotty winced at the sight.
"So who's our main suspect?" Vera asked.
"Well most people want to put Tess Wilkins, her ex-girlfriend behind bars."
"Why is that?"
"Well, according to the police report, Tess left her birthday party because she found out that Ashley had been cheating on her. When she tried to run away, she went after her. Ashley wasn't seen alive again, that night, and Tess just wasn't seen. Her parents said that she came back home around midnight. That raises the question: If Ashley and Tess left at 8:00 pm, they left each other at 8:05 pm, Ashley was found dead at 10:00 pm and Tess didn't get home until 12:00 am, what in the world was she doing for three hours and fifty-five minutes?"
They all looked at each other. Scotty then took the second picture.
"They look like the perfect greeting card family," he said as he looked at the photo. The Jenson family looked excited. The mother and father were sitting on the couch, watching their children open up their gifts.
Lily took the picture into her hands and examined it for a moment. "Those are the kinds you have to watch out for," she said with a smirk
Authors note: I had to edit some things before I moved onto chapter 5 because I realized that parts of this chapter didn't make sense. Anyhoo, continue your reading!