Chapter 13
"So you can see why we're concerned Robbie. Elizabeth Stevenson is missing. Her behavior changed not long ago and her grades were slipping. She told her parents that her professor was causing her problems. According to the college, she did lodge complaints regarding Professor Reinig but my guess is that she didn't mean him. Kind of hard for him to be kissing her and feeling her up at the same time while she was pushed up against the wall, given his permanent sitting condition. NYU thought the same thing," Elliot slammed the college's investigation file on the table in the interrogation room.
"They called you?" Robbie stammered.
"They were about to but it seems someone wanted to get at Elizabeth before that happened. What'd you do to her?" Olivia pressed.
"I wouldn't hurt her," the suspect told them.
"Why should we believe you? You look suspiciously like the guy who pulled Elizabeth into that car and your hands look like you've been using your knuckles for something other than what they're supposed to be used for," Elliot dropped a blown up picture of the abduction.
"Now we know that that beige Honda isn't yours because it has Jersey plates and you're address is just off the NYU campus. Whose car is it? Better you tell us before the plates come back from the DMV. Once that happens then we'll be forced to charge you with three counts of murder and one count of kidnapping," Olivia pointed out.
"Murder? Kidnapping? You can't prove that. It's my aunt's car," there was a slight change in his demeanor. Outside the interrogation room, Huang smirked.
"What's so funny?" Cragen asked.
"He's our guy and he just gave himself away," the FBI agent said.
"How do you figure? I didn't hear a confession," the Captain pointed out.
"When confronted with the possible charges instead of showing fear as any innocent person would, he immediately went to a defensive strategy. Look at how he's sitting now. Even as Olivia and Elliot are pressing him, his words say he's trying to claim his innocence but his body language indicates something quite different. We're lucky you caught him," Huang said.
"Lucky? There are at least two women dead, one missing, and the owner of the beige Honda probably had something bad happen to them," Cragen raised an eyebrow.
"And if he'd perfected his routine, you wouldn't have caught him at all or he'd have been caught after many more women were dead," Huang said. That's when Munch and Tutuola walked up to them.
"We got an address off the plates on the beige Honda. The car is still missing but the Jersey cops are checking on the owner now," Munch explained. He barely got the words out of his mouth and Tutuola's phone rang. He excused himself and the Captain turned back to Elliot and Olivia who were leaving the interrogation room.
"He lawyered up," Olivia said.
"He's going to need that lawyer. Jersey cops found the owner of the beige Honda, a Michelle Han, dead in her home. They want a piece of our suspect," Tutuola told them.
"Arrest the son of a bitch. We'll let the DA sort it out," Cragen ordered. Olivia and Elliot headed back in to the interrogation room.
"Good news Robbie. The Jersey cops just found murder victim number three, Michelle Han. You're going to jail and then they're done with you, we'll get a crack," Elliot said.
"I'm guessing that Elizabeth doesn't have that kind of time," Robbie told them.
To Be Continued…