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Theto leave "I re up She was hoping to score the role, believed that particular role could shoot her to the top" Joel shook his head "She was killed the night before the audition"

Why hadn’t Daniel known that? The producer Theo Markha role

The question hy not?

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Half an hour later, Daniel and Cam were back in Daniel’s Crown Vic headed for the Parker Center, each carrying a sugar cookie folded in a napkin

Before turning off PCH into Santa Monica, Daniel shot a look toward Paco’s, just a block up from the Santa Monica Pier "Too bad we don’t have tilad Mrs Luther’s still here I was a glutton at Paco’s at least once a week growing up Maybe we can do a late lunch" Caotten how bad the traffic can get"

"Yeah, it gets worse every year I know a couple of shortcuts, but this time of day they’ll be backed up worse than this, so it’s traffic all the way, 110 to 101 It’ll take about an hour"

Daniel talkedabout the murder scene had felt like a Serial to him, and he’d looked into other recent unsolved murders in Southern California--a sliced throat in bed in thelaptop and cell phone He found both the Melodie Anders an murder and called Supervisor David Elman of the Homicide Special Section Elan reed it fit a pattern He hadn’t known about the second victim, Melodie Anders, in San Dimas

"I have to admit I was surprised when the LAPD didn’t kiss me off Supervisor Elman even calledto contact all the sheriffs’ departreed we had a Serial, I convinced theht it would et his next possible victims warned The media was all over it, one of the tabloids even ca actress in LA had to knoas out there" Daniel sighed "But it didn’t help The fourth victim, Heather Burnside, was killed in North Hollywood on June 2nd, after we spent weeks investigating and getting nowhere I hated that, Cah We’ll have et him, Daniel, no doubt in my mind"

At 11:50, Daniel turned onto First Street, drove a short distance to the LAPD staff-only garage, and stopped at the guardCauard their nauard ainst his coh with a stingy smile He even went so far as to nod toward a visitor’s slot not far froe booth

Cam had visited the old Parker Center a handful of times over the years, but never the new headquarters She paused on the sidewalk to look up at the incredible architecture of the building Its glass and white concrete blended over the front of the building like a large white curtain There were so eometry Palm trees added a bit of Southern California dash, as did the warround noise from the heavy traffic on the nearby 101

They were met in the lobby by the supervisor of the Homicide Special Section himself, David Elman He looked like a seasoned veteran, in his late forties, tall, broad-shouldered, balding rapidly His smart dark eyes went iret, he turned to her