In the Interrogation Room
Kit walked in and smiled at the three nervous young girls that sat on the opposite of the table Steve came in right behind her and held out the chair for her to sit in.
"Hi girls, I am Dr. Kitana Raines I am the medical examiner for the State of Hawaii, and this is Lt. Commander Steve McGarrett, we are investigating Sarah's murder as I stated to you on the phone earlier today." She told them in a soothing voice trying to ease their nervousness.
The girls introduced themselves as Brittany Haines, Stephanie Jones, and Suzie Michaels. They advised that they were only in Hawaii for less than a week and that they have just been sightseeing.
"We would like to know what Sarah's last 48 hours, where you four went, where you had dinner, who you talked to anything you can remember that would help us finding her killer." Steve told them.
"Well the day before yesterday, Sarah and I went to the International Marketplace to do shopping, we have known one another since we were kids and we just wanted to do a little shopping." Brittany told them.
"Was Sarah acting weird at all, did she seem nervous about anything or anyone that day?" Steve asked.
"No it was just a normal shopping trip, 'than she was quiet like she was thinking about something'"
"It's okay Brittany, whatever it is, no matter how small it may help us to get this man." Kit told her reaching across the table and grabbing her hand.
"There was a man at one of the stands, I think it was the one that sold Seashells as jewelry, yea I remember it was because Sarah made the comment that they were tacky but they were cute, and the man that was selling the jewelry kept commenting on how beautiful she was, and he was a little creepy about it, the weird part about it was once we left I turned around and the guy was gone and there was someone completely different, it was as if he was never there." She told the two.
"If you saw this mans face again would you be able to point him out?" Kit asked her, and Brittany nodded.
Kit pulled out her phone and she loaded the pictures of the two men that were so far linked to the murders, she faced the phone towards the three of them.
Does either one of these men look familiar to you?" Steve asked them.
She showed them Max Chen first and neither of them said anything and then she showed them Derek Jackson, Brittany's eyes got wide and the other two girls gasped as well.
"I saw him outside of our hotel yesterday." Stephanie stated, "Sarah and I were going for a run, and I bumped into him but I don't think Sarah saw him otherwise she would have said something." She added.
"Suzie what about you?" Kit asked her.
"I saw him last night we were having dinner at that Shrimp truck and he was talking to the owner I think he was a big guy, but he stood out to me because he had a tattoo on his left hand of a swallow, and I told him that I thought it was cool. The other girls were already seated so that is why they didn't notice him." She told them.
All three girls were starting to tear up now as they came to the realization that they all had seen their friend's possible murderer and never thought about it.
"Okay girls, one last question, what was Sarah doing last night after you guys had dinner?" Kit asked them.
"She said she wanted to go for a walk, and walk we have all done by ourselves before and she never came back, we thought she met her fling. We all made the decision to have a random encounter while we were here, but then she never came back period and then you called us we knew something was wrong." Suzie stated wiping her tears away.
Steve and Kit called them a cab to take them back to their hotel, unfortunately they had to stay on the island until the investigation was completed if they could complete it there was a statute of limitations.
However, Steve was hopeful when Suzie mentioned that they had dinner at a Shrimp truck and that they may actually catch a break.
