Stella and Mac went to an empty warehouse. The place was dark and small. Neither one of them was about to take any chances and kept their hands near their service weapons.
There was a shadow and Mac looked to see a young woman standing there who just looked at the both of them.
" Are you the one who called me?" Stella asked.
The young lady just nodded her head.
" I thought you might come alone," the young woman said shyly.
" We work together," Mac told her," You can talk to either one of us. Who are you?"
The young woman looked at Mac and stepped back with her hands at her sides.
" I'm not armed. You don't need to have your hand close to your sidearm, do you?"
" It's precaution," Stella told her," You said you had some information on Ethan Crowley."
" I do, but I don't know how to put it. My name is Crenshaw, Amanda Crenshaw."
" Any relation to Alex Crenshaw?" Stella asked.
Amanda again nodded her head.
" Alex is my brother. At one point Ethan was his best friend, they did everything together. I was there in the apartment when you and the other detective were talking to my brother and Joelle. I was heartbroken to hear about what happened to Ethan. This all seems so pointless. I told you I didn't know how to put it. I didn't come out because I was scared."
Amanda sat down and pushed back some of her brown hair behind her ear. Mac and Stella could both tell she was shaking a bit.
" I actually liked him. I knew a lot about him. Ethan was the type of guy not to stick with one girl though."
" How do you know?" Mac asked her.
" I saw it with my own eyes. Ethan Crowley was a player, he even, well, we went out and Alex had no idea. Sometimes he acts like he's so much oler then me then two years. Hell, half the time, Alex pretends I'm not even in the room or that I don't exist. Joelle gave me an extra key to the apartment. When they left that morning, I took the business card. It took me some time to decide to call."
" What happened between you and Ethan?" Mac asked.
Amanda sighed and got up.
" He dumped me because I wasn't ready for the next level. I hated him for what he did to me. I told Alex and he couldn't believe it. He didn't believe me. Then I would see Ethan with those other girls. He was always with someone else it seems, until it came to Clarissa. I don't know what it was about her, but Ethan was with her the longest."
Amanda sat back down.
" Where were you the other night?" Stella asked.
" You mean at the time of Ethan's death? I was at the apartment, in bed asleep. I don't stay out all hours of the night."
" We need to get a copy of your fingerprints and DNA," Mac told her.
" Why?" Amanda asked," I didn't kill him. There are others who hated him, try my brother for instance. Now if you don't mind, I need to get home."
" Not so fast," Mac told her," What else do you know?"
Amanda shook her head.
" Nothing. What else do you want to know? The last time I saw Ethan was two days ago. He was happy as ever with Clarissa right beside him. It made me sick to see them together. This was a mistake. I get scared and nervous easily."
" What about your prints and DNA?" Stella asked," Do we have your permission?"
" Do you want them now? Would that be helpful?"
" It would," Mac told her," It could help clear you or you can be arrested for trespassing, it's up to you, either way, we'll get them."
Amanda then only nodded her head and the three of them went out of the building. Stella got out her kit and took Amanda's fingerprints and took a swab sample.
" I feel like a guinea pig. Now may I go?"
" Were you in that apartment all night?" Mac asked her.
" Yes, until about 9 a.m. the next morning. May I go now?"
" If you think of anything else," Stella told her," You can call us at the lab."
" I don't know what else to say, except that I don't know who would be mad enough to want Ethan dead. Then again you never know."
Amanda was about to walk away when she stopped and pulled out some photos.
" I don't know if these will help you, but it could."
Amanda handed the photos to Stella.
" Ethan with two other girls," Stella said," Do you know who they are Amanda?"
" The red head is Emily McKenzie, the blond is Staci Collins. I don't know much about them, only that they both dated Ethan. How they broke up, I'm not sure."
" This does help," Mac told her," Thank you."
Amanda walked away from the building and a few minutes later, so did Mac and Stella.
" What do you make of that?"
" Ethan Crowley seemed to have more enemies then friends. We need to talk to these other people and see what they can tell us."
" When Danny and I talked to Alex and Joelle, they did mention some of the other girls that Ethan was with. In fact, it was these girls."
" Then we need to talk to them and see what else we can find out about Ethan Crowley."
Mac and Stella left area, but didn't realize that outside, someone was watching them and their talk with Amanda.
