She looked at the piece of paper in her hand and then read it to Scotty. "S. Gallagher, 10/92."

"Lil, that was the one I was just telling you about, the one that they had no leads on. You mean they've got something now?"

"Yeah, maybe. You remember the fingerprints on the knife? Well the man who just came to see me is PC Hughes; he entered the guy's ten card into the system and it came up with a match to that unsolved homicide.

"So what was he busted for?" Scotty's enthusiasm had just skyrocketed.

"Dealing near a school" said Lily.

"Well is he willing to make a deal with us?" said Scotty standing up from his chair.

"I don't know, lets go find out shall we?" said Lily with a smile.

When Lily told PC Hugh's to have him brought up to homicide for interrogation he was more than happy to reply to comply with her request. While they were waiting they went over the case file again quickly so that they could see exactly what they were dealing with.

"This guy, Kenny Tiler wasn't an original suspect, he isn't mentioned anywhere in these files" stated Scotty as he read the files.

"Sharon was stabbed seven times to her upper body. She had cuts all over her hands and forearms. She fought for her life," said Lily, her voice wrought with disgust.

Just then PC Hugh's came back into the room. "Detective Rush, he's here now. His names Kenny Tiler and he has no priors in the system.

"Okay thanks," said Lily standing up and taking off her coat.

"No problem," said Hugh's who looked her up and down before leaving.

After he left Scotty laughed and Lily looked back at him. "What's so funny?"

"Your little friend PC Hugh's was just checking you out."

"He was not," she said laughing a little.

"Trust me Lil he was, and he wasn't even discreet about it," said Scotty. At least when I do it I'm not that obvious he thought.

"Oh shut up," said Lil as she playfully hit him on the arm, "come on, we've got work to do."


When they went into the interrogation room Lily's eyes took in Kenny's appearance, saving his image to her memory for future reference. He was white with dark hair and dark brown eyes. He was un-shaven and he looked as though he'd had the same clothes on for a few days now. The sleeves of his jumper had been rolled back and revealed to Lily a history of drug abuse. He probably dealt drugs to pay for his own addiction. He looked like he was in his late twenty's or maybe even early thirties.

"I'm Detective Rush and this is Detective Valens. We're with homicide."

"Well then I think you have the wrong room, I ain't killed nobody."

"You sure about that Kenny? Coz that's not we've come to believe," said Scotty, who was glad to be back interrogating suspects again.

"Well let's see Kenny, where were you 22nd October 1992?" said Lily.

"Hell lady are you for real? I can't remember last week how do expect me to remember back that far?"

"First of all it's Detective Rush not 'lady', and second of all I expect to you to remember where you were unless you want to spend the rest of your miserable life in prison."

"I already told you, I don't know anything."

"Well how about we refresh your memory for you Kenny. On the 22nd October 1992 a woman called Sharon Gallagher was stabbed to death."

Scotty threw a picture on to the table in front of Kenny. "Do you know this woman?" he asked.

"So what if I do. It's all in the past now. Why are guys interested in something that happened… what… 12 yeas ago?"

"Because that's what we do Kenny. So you had better get talking unless you want a one-way ticket to jail. Coz we'll be more than happy to give you one." Lily was getting sick of this guy's smart-arse attitude.

"Wait a second, you can't send me to jail just coz I saw some chick 12 years ago."

"You didn't just see her, you fingerprints were on the knife that killed her. And plus I thought you couldn't remember back that far," said Scotty.

"Well the picture must have jogged my memory. But yeah I saw her around once or twice."

Finally the questioning was getting them somewhere, thought a relieved Lily.

"Well how do you explain your fingerprints on the murder weapon?"

"I…I don't suppose I have much of choice now do I. Well back in 92 I was 17 and a bit wild. Me and my mates got high one night and they dared me to break into that lady's house and steal her jewellery. Well I did, break in I mean, and then I saw her lying there on the floor. I went over to her and pulled the knife out of her chest. Then I realised that it would look I'd killed her so I dropped the knife and got the hell out of there."

"Well did you see anyone near the house around that time?"

"No I was too scared to hang around, hell I didn't wanna end up looking like that."

Lily and Scotty left the interrogation room a few minutes later taking with them there picture of Sharon. "So where to now?" asked Scotty. "We didn't really get anything useful out of that guy."

"I guess we go and tell the family we are re-opening the case."


By this time they had informed Vera and Jefferies that they had a new case to work on. Vera pulled the last known address of the victim's family. Vera and Jefferies then set out to find out what Kenny had been up to over the last few years and see whether his story checked out. Lily and Scotty were to visit the victim's family.

They knocked on the door and were greeted by a girl who was around 14.She was tall and slim with shoulder length blonde hair. She looked like a younger version of Sharon. Scotty assumed she was Kellie.

"Hi, we're Detective's Valens and Rush," he said as they simultaneously held up their badges, "is your father home?"

"Yeah he is, I'll go and get him, please come in"

They stepped in the door and took off their coats. Scotty motioned for Lily to hand him hers so he could hang it near the door. She smiled and handed it to him.

He was distracted from Lily's smile by a man, presumably Kellie's father.

"Hi, I'm Detective Rush and this is Detective Valens."

"I'm Pete Gallagher. So what's this about, is Matt in some kind of trouble again?"

"No this doesn't have anything to do with Matt, it actually has to do with Sharon's death. We have a lead on her case and came by to tell you that we are re-opening it" said Lily.

The man looked his eyes sad and grey. "Oh ok then. What makes you think you'll be able to find out who killed her this time?"

"But isn't it worth a try? We might not solve it, but what if we do?"

"Well then you can come here and tell me which bastard is responsible for tearing my family apart. I'm sorry if I seem ungrateful, it's just that I don't want to get my hopes up for me or my kids. Its been hard enough already for them growing up and never knowing what happened to their mother."


With that Lily and Scotty said goodbye, collected their coats and went back to the station. "So where does that leave us?" asked Scotty. He didn't know what had come over him, but he hadn't been able to keep his eyes off Lily all day. It must be her blouse he had decided. It brought out the blue of her eyes to vividly, and attracted him to them every time her saw her.

"Well Pete didn't seem to think that the police had done a very thorough job last time so how about we start from the top. Let's see if she's in our databases."

Five minutes later the computer had finished its search and showed nothing. She hadn't had a criminal record.

Scotty decided to search for her birth certificate in the Birth's, Deaths and Marriages database, since he couldn't be bothered searching through the box to find it. What he saw shocked him a bit but he figured it might have been typographical error. So he pulled her Social Security number as well.

"What the… Lily look at this out." She walked over to him and leaned over his shoulder so her eyes could gain access to the computer screen.

"Sharon Gallagher didn't exist before 1985."