Standing up, Sharon gave Rusty's shoulder a gentle squeeze, nodded at Dr. Joe and walked out of her office. She couldn't believe it, they might finally have their first clue as to who was behind the threats.
"Everything ok Captain?" Provinsa asked worriedly. Dr. Joe, Rusty and Sharon had been in the office for over an hour and Rusty was still in there.
"We might have a break through on who our letter writer is. Det Sanchez and Det Sykes, I want everything you can find on Dr. Paul Davenport. He has a record and should be in jail,"
"Was he one of Rusty's clients?" Det Tao asked.
"He was one of his mother's abusive ex-boyfriends," Sharon replied walking down the hallway towards the elevators. After calling Dr. Joe and scheduling a meeting with him last night, she had called Chief Taylor and Emma Rios informing them of the new development with Rusty and the letters and scheduling a meeting with them.
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"So Rusty believes the person behind the threats could be this Dr. Davenport?" Chief Taylor asked.
"I know a little about that case. The man caused over nine people to commit suicide in his four year stint as a psychotherapist. He is good at figuring out who is susceptible to becoming hypnotized, then uses mind games against them to get what he wants. It's how he escaped the first time; hypnotized one of the prison guards while he was in seclusion," Emma replied with a sigh.
"I have my team finding everything they can about him. If there is a chance he's the letter writer and is either writing the letters to mess with Rusty or if he is doing Phillip a favor, we'll discover it and take advantage of it,"
"Keep me informed of everything," Taylor replied dismissing the meeting.
Waiting for the elevators, Emma said "I don't want to scare you Captain, but if it is Paul, you might have bigger problems. He's extremely cunning, and can find information in ways you've never thought of. If he wants to hurt either Rusty or you, he'll have no problems doing so,"
Looking Emma dead in the eyes Sharon said,
"If it is him, I can guarantee you, I'll do everything in my power to keep Rusty and I safe no matter what it takes,"
Emma stared at her then finally nodded. She knew Sharon meant what she said. She just didn't know if it would be enough.
"Please keep me informed of anything you discover about him," Emma replied as the elevator opened and she stepped inside pressing the down button to the parking garage.
Back in the murder room Sharon glanced over at her office surprised to see Dr. Joe was still in there with Rusty. Rusty looked worn out and Sharon felt for him. Neither of them received much sleep last night and then he spent his morning discussing and re-living one of the worst two months of his life. The abuse he went through always surprised Sharon. It seemed like his childhood was comprised of one horrible thing after the other. She wished she could have been able to rescue him a long time ago.
"Captain!" Amy said her voice urgent.
Turning, Sharon walked towards Amy's desk.
"Dr. Davenport escaped from prison yesterday. The prison warden, once I asked about him, admitted it. The local police are still on the lookout for him and they are about to release the information to the public, but so far there have been no sightings of him,"
Sharon froze her eyes widening as she wrapped her arms around herself.
"This guy, he's definitely bad news Captain," Julio replied walking over to them.
"The ways in which his victims committed suicide were horrible. I'm won't go into detail, but it's all in the report I printed. Oh and Captain, he knew Phillip. They were childhood friends,"
Sharon's stomach did summersaults. There was no doubt in her mind now that he was their letter writer and with him out of prison it meant Rusty was in danger,"
"Oh God," she said putting a hand to her mouth and looking back at the office.
"I'm sending officers over to your condo," Andy said grabbing his phone.
"Captain, what do you need us to do?" Provinsa softly asked seeing the wild almost panicky look in her eyes.
"Tao could you please inform DDA Rios and Chief Taylor of our latest development. Provinsa, I'd like you to come with me to inform Rusty and Dr. Joe,"
Taking a deep breath, Sharon grounded herself and catching Dr. Joe's eyes in the window, walked towards her office, Provinsa in tow.