Chapter 5
While Mr. Miller was brought in for interrogation, Vera checked the other phone calls.
"Mr. Miller, you lied to us", Lilly said in the interrogation room. Miller was sitting there, totally confused about what was going on.
"I didn't. I told you everything I know", he said.
"Really?" Scotty put his hands on Millers shoulders. "We know about the phone call you made."
"What phone call?"
"Don't try that I-don't-know-what-you-are-talking-about shit on us Miller. You called Robert Deaver the night he went missing."
Vera opened the door. "Rush, I got something interesting for you." Lilly left the room and closed the door.
'I'm in the middle of an interrogation, what can be more interesting than that right now?', Lil' thought.
"I didn't call Robert. I swear", Miller said.
"Swear as much as you want but we got the records, Andy."
"So what? That doesn't prove anything. Ask my wife, she was with me the whole evening. I never called Robert that night."
"What is it Vera?", Lilly asked. They walked to Veras desk. "I'm done with the phone calls and I found something very interesting."
"Spit it out Vera, what did you find?"
"Well, I didn't find anything unusual about Deavers records, but then I checked Millers'. In 1998 Miller called Jackson at least four times a month."
"Jackson? Detective Jackson?"
"Exactly. I don't have an explanation for that, do you?"
"Nope, but we could ask our Mr. Miller."
Lilly went back to the interrogation room.
"Mr. Miller, do you know Kevin Jackson?", she asked.
"Jackson, isn't that the detective who investigated Roberts case?"
"Yes, that's him. But you know what I think? I think you knew him before Robert went missing." She threw the records on the table and turned to Scotty. "Smart Andy here called Jackson."
"Nah, I didn't."
"Come on Andrew, it's getting boring. Can't we try something else? Maybe the truth?"
"Maybe my wife knew him, but I didn't."
"Enough Andrew", Scotty yelled, "we want an explanation and we want it now. So either you tell us the truth now or you'll stay here with us, the whole night!"
Miller hesitated. "Look, we can also just ask your daughter. She got nothing to hide", Lilly said.
"No, wait, don't bother her."
'Come on, you give a shit about your daughter.'
"I did call Kevin Jackson. We are friends, but I swear that's all."
"Why didn't you wanna tell us that?"
Miller took a deep breath. "Because I didn't want Kevin to get into trouble."
Lilly and Scotty talked to Stillman outside the interrogation room.
"Jackson has already left. He went home, talk to him tomorrow in the morning", Stillman said.
"We can't keep Miller here over night boss."
"Then let him go Scotty, we know where to find him."
"Okay then, good night", Lilly said and with that she left.