Oops, I Did It Again – Chapter 29

The weekend seemed to have gone by quickly. It was a great thing that they had food in their house because they didn't leave the house until it was time for Sunday dinner. They barely made it out of bed. They were so happy spending almost the whole weekend in bed.

They managed to make it to Sunday dinner on time and they enjoyed the dinner. They both thought that the dinner went well. Frank hadn't admitted to approving of their relationship yet, but he was being civil every time he saw them. Jane thought that was an improvement and she would take that over him disowning her.

Frankie had worked all weekend but took a break for Sunday dinner. Jane wanted to ask him what he had discovered but figured now was not the time. Frankie wanted to tell her but he also figured with the situation with their father and him trying to get use to the relationship between Jane and Maura, he would just fill them in on Monday morning.

He found out that the doctor had been diagnosed with cancer right after the twin boy's death and had passed away two years later. Frankie then pulled up as much information as he could about the two nurses, Gail and Jackie. He wasn't able to get into their phone records or financials yet as he needed a court order for that.

He had the paperwork all ready to go to the judge first thing Monday morning. Once Frankie explained the situation the judge immediately signed the warrant. He also told Frankie if he needed any other warrants to please let him know. He knew the first and third victims and he wanted this case solved. Frankie thanked him and called Jane once he stepped out of the judge's chambers with the signed warrants.

Jane immediately had Frost begin working on pulling up the financials and requesting a phone record dump of their phones, cell and land line. The phone company said they would expedite the request once they had the warrant in hand. Frost called Frankie to have him drop off a copy of the warrant to the bank and the phone company.

There was nothing more for Jane to do but wait. She was sitting in Maura's office with the reports spread over the coffee table. She was leaning back on the sofa with a file in her lap, just thinking. She was trying to put all the pieces together. She had a knack for putting pieces together. It was just more and more pieces kept being discovered.

Maura didn't mind having Jane working in her office. She knew there were too many distractions up in the bullpen. She had an extra smile on her face being able to see Jane for most of the work day. Maura didn't have any autopsies so she was sitting at her desk working on reviewing all aspects of their case. She liked to double and triple check all of the facts.

They had to think outside the box and this case was just stumping her and the rest of the team. They knew it would take more than a day to get the financials and phone records. They requested them on all of the delivery team and the victims. They had some of the information on the victims already but they were not going to leave anything to chance.

Two days later they were able to put together a pattern between the doctor and two of the nurses. The doctor had signed the death certificate. They knew that the parents had been given the opportunity to see their son before he was cremated. They were shown an age-appropriate newborn baby, that apparently was not their son.

The doctor and the two nurses each had monetary deposits in their bank accounts the day before the twin boy's death. Frost and Frankie continued to look at the other matching dates to see if a baby had died in their care on or after that date. Over a five-year period, the doctor and the two nurses had twelve matching deposits with twelve baby deaths. The doctor had signed all of the death certificates. They reported this information to Jane. The doctor had died over twenty years ago. The twin boy's death was the last one that match any bank deposits of the doctor and two nurses. Jane concluded that he must have been their last baby in their little operation.

Frost and Frankie were able to discover that a legal service had paid the doctor and nurses. They researched the legal service and found an attorney that was a high school buddy of the doctors.

Frankie went to the judge and got a warrant for the lawyer's financial, phone records and his list of clients as well. Frankie wanted to make sure that they had all of their ducks in a row, so to speak. They found that the twelve deposits coincided with transactions between the doctor and the lawyer. They deduced that this must have been the adoption lawyer.

With the list of clients, they were hoping to start making some connections between the supposed deceased babies and possible adoptive parents. Lt. Cavanaugh authorized additional officers to assist as this was becoming a huge case. He offered them a conference work to work in as with seven murders they had too much information for their normal white boards. He wanted Jane, Frost and Korsak to concentrate on the original seven murders and not the black-market adoption ring that they seemed to have stumbled upon.

Jane had an officer bring in the one nurse that was still alive, Gail, to see what she might tell her about their little operation. Jane found out during the interrogation later that day that Gail had only worked at the hospital for a few years when the doctor started paying attention to her. She was flattered as he was a very handsome man and several of the nurses had a crush on him.

She had tons of student loans and was barely making ends meet. She started dating the doctor and after a few months, the doctor offered her money to assist with their operation. She agreed and started helping him and the other nurse, Jackie.

Gail told Jane that she kept records of everything she did. She knew this baby stealing operation might come back to haunt her someday. Two uniformed officers went with Jane and Gail to retrieve her records. She knew she would be going to jail and figured she might as well come clean. She had quite a bit of information that Jane needed to assist her in finding out about the missing twin boy.

Gail or Jackie always took the next few days off after they took a baby. This was the time that all of the adoption process was taking place with the perspective adoptive parents. Gail had names for most of the adoptive parents that she met when introducing them to the baby. Almost every baby that she helped introduce to perspective parents were adopted by those parents.

This information was important and Jane passed that information off to the detective that was in charge of investigating the black-market adoption ring. Jane wanted information on the twelfth baby but Gail didn't handle that adoption, Jackie did. Gail had lost touch with Jackie after Jackie quit a few days after the last baby was taken. She gave Jane all the information she knew about Jackie.

Jane could now tie the missing twin boy to the doctor and two nurses and the adoptive parents. What she didn't know yet was how the seven murders tied into this. Because Gail had been friends with Jackie, she told Jane that Jackie had tried multiple times to have a baby and wasn't able to. She wanted a baby. Jackie had talked to the doctor about getting a baby for her and he refused. Jackie had told Gail that if the doctor wouldn't help her, she would help herself.

Gail didn't put the facts together until right then when she was explaining everything to Jane. Jane thought that maybe once the adoptive parents had died, Jackie might have taken the baby, or Jackie may have even killed the adoptive parents to take the baby for her own. Jane escorted Gail back to the precinct where she was booked for her part in the abduction of the twelve newborn babies.

Jane then met with Maura, Frost and Korsak and they listed all the facts that they knew:

Seven women had been murdered, each with a number on their right foot

Victims one and three were both lawyers

DNA with a familial match to victim three was found at victim seven's crime scene

The DNA turned out to be that of a presumed dead twin brother of victim three

A doctor and two nurses had abducted twelve babies and given them up for adoption through the black-market over a five-year period of time

The doctor signed all twelve death certificates, listing cause of death as term stillborn

The doctor and two nurses each received large sums of money days before the baby's 'death'

A lawyer that went to high school with the doctor was handling the adoptions

One of the two nurses met with each set of perspective adoptive parents

The doctor, lawyer and Nurse Jackie were all deceased

Jane ran her theory of how she thought Jackie might have taken the twin boy and raised him as her own by Maura, Frost and Korsak. They decided that they would have to think about this theory more and review Jackie's life a little more closely. This was enough to keep them going for a while. Now they needed to connect Jackie with the missing twin boy. They needed to create a time line of Jackie's life and hopefully that would lead them to the missing twin boy.

That is how they spent the rest of the evening. They knew Jane's 'gut' was often correct. They ordered Chinese food and worked through the night taking breaks here and there until they couldn't think straight. At 3 AM Korsak finally said they needed to break and go home and get some sleep. They would pick it back up at 9 AM the next day. He ushered everyone out and locked up the conference room that they were now using as a huge murder board.