Wednesday, December 7, 11:04 am: One PP
"We checked phone records. There's compelling evidence that Hunt was the last one to see Danielle alive." Goren was explaining to Deakins.
"Bring him in."
Carver knocked on the open door and stepped into the office.
"This letter was just faxed to my desk requesting that Hunt not be brought in for an interview without evidence that he was involved in the murder, and he is not to be spoken to without his attorney present. No exceptions."
"That's.. unusual." Goren exchanged a look with Eames.
"One would think 'overprotective lawyer' were an oxymoron, but .. wow." Eames looked puzzled.
"It's extremely unusual, and I would laugh, if it weren't coming from the Archdiocese of New York." Carver smiled slightly.
"You're kidding," Goren stood up to look at the fax.
"I don't kid, Detectives." He sighed. "I suggest you do some more homework and get something more solid than phone records and gut instincts."
A little while later, and no leads yet...
"We can't get railroaded by the Archdiocese. I wanna know why our primary suspect can't be trusted to talk to us without a lawyer present at all times."
"I guess they don't want us shooting the shit with their client, Eames."
"Shucks."
They lapsed into silence, except for the sound of Eames typing rapidly on her laptop.
"Wait.. wait a minute." She muttered. "Carolyn Hunt... in 1992, Carolyn Hunt made an official complaint about a Father Simon, but it was withdrawn."
Instantly, Goren had crossed the distance between them and bent over her desk to read over her shoulder.
"And our boy has a sealed juvenile record."
"This just gets better and better," Goren muttered.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"A catholic priest, an altar boy, and thirteen years later, that altar boy has Dissociative disorder, and the protection of the church?" He had moved back to his desk and was flipping through a thick textbook. "Here," He pointed to a highlighted page and slid it towards her.
"'...97 to 98 of adults with dissociative identity disorder report abuse during childhood and that abuse can be documented for 85 of adults and for 95 of children and adolescents with dissociative identity disorder and other closely related forms of dissociative disorder.'" Eames read. "'Amnesia involving an inability to recall important personal information relating to some of the identities is present. Amnesia is not uniform in all personalities; what is not known by one personality may be known by another. Some personalities may appear to know and interact with other personalities in an elaborate inner world.'" She looked up at Goren. "Bobby..."
He nodded at her, and pulled the book back, slamming it shut.
"He doesn't know." She exhaled and sat back.
"I think someone else does."
"Let's find out who."