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It was a nice house, cozy, comfortable, and the mattress was heaven Cam was tired and hyped up at the sah to be on an I Love Lucy episode h to nod off

She catone of her cell For a second, she didn’t knohere she was, then remembered "Wittier here"

It was Supervisor David Elain, call cao, in Santa Monica Another actress, Deborah Connelly, aged twenty-six Fits the profile exactly She was killed in her bed last night, her laptop and cell phoneto her boyfriend, who found her"

Cam closed her eyes, let it sink in Another ut

"Thank you for calling me so fast I’ll be there in thirty-five , okay? We need a pristine criood reason, but Caot an out-of-breath voice "Yeah?"

"Caave him the address in Santa Monica "I’ll see you there Fast as you can, Daniel"

She parked her rented Toyota at the sidewalk at Deborah Connelly’s condo thirty-one ht behind her There were two patrol cars and two Crown Vics crowded in the driveway and at the curb

When he joined her, Cam asked, "You were out of breath when I called What were you doing?"

"I’d just coover frootten up early to run? He looked sharp in gray chinos, a blue blazer, and white shirt, boots on his big feet She wanted to slug him

"Do you know any of the people in the Santa Monica station?"

"Arturo Loo, so lots of experience, and pretty smart Your only probleent who screwed hi-time in their divorce Maybe you’ll luck out and someone else took the call"

She didn’t luck out

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21 CRANDLE AVENUE

SANTA MONICA

WEDNESDAY MORNING