Chapter 4
Lilly and Scotty went downstairs to Jacksons office. 'Either he's a bad cop or he got something to do with the case', Lil' thought.
"Detective Jackson, you got a minute?", Lilly asked. Jackson looked at them, surprised by the fact that two cold case squad members were visiting him. "Sure", he answered, "have a seat."
They sat down. After a minute of silence, Lilly started: "We are investigating a case from '98, Robert Deaver."
"Yeah, I remember that case. Missing husband, we never found him."
"That's right. Until now. We found his body. Actually we're here to ask you a few questions about your investigation 'cause some details are missing in your report."
"Like what?"
"Like the fact that you didn't check Deavers phone calls…", Lilly said.
"…or the fact that Andrew Millers family didn't confirm his alibi", Scotty continued.
"And why did you write Deaver was on his way to Miller. He didn't tell anyone where he was going."
"I can explain that."
"Oh yeah please, we'd appreciate that."
"First of all, don't treat me like I'm a suspect or something, understand?", he said full of anger, "I did check the phone calls! But I couldn't find anything so I decided not to write it in the report."
"What?" Lilly asked. 'I can't believe that', she thought, 'why is this man still detective?' "Did you just say you decided not to write it in the report? Everything that is part of the investigation needs to be in the report. You won your badge in the lottery or what?"
"Hey! I knew exactly what I was doing, okay?"
"No it's not okay. Maybe there was something important about those phone calls but you didn't see it. Anyway, we're gonna find out", Scotty said. "What about the alibi?"
"Miller had an alibi. I wrote it in the report."
"So his family didn't confirm it? 'Cause if they did you should've written that, too."
"They did confirm it. I just forgot to write it. And about the other thing, his wife told me he was on his way to Miller. I thought maybe Miller didn't know anything about it."
"So if you checked the phone calls, who called the Robert Deaver that night?"
"I don't remember that detail."
"Great. I hope for the victims' families' sakes that you don't investigate too many cases", Scotty said. They left and went back upstairs. 'I've never met such a terrible cop', Scotty thought.
"That alibi thing is stuck in my head", Lilly said, back in their office.
"What do you mean?", Scotty asked.
"Well, to me it seemed like Susan was lying about the alibi. And it's weird that Jackson just forgot to write it in the report."
"That's not weird, that guy is just dumb."
'So true.'
"Got something", Vera said. "It was Miller who called Deaver that night."
"So he lied to us."
"I don't like liars", Scotty said.
"Neither do I."