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"Can I talk to hi concerned until my utter stupidity hit me like a ton of masonry "If Sylvia is behind this and it has to do with the fact that the jury bullied her and put an innocent man in prison, a man hom she fell in love, what do you think she would do to the arresting officer?" I asked him

"Son of a bitch," he said "She wasn’t at the news conference"

"She hen I was there"

"And so was your uncle" He hung up before I could comment further, but I kneould put every available resource on it

Before I could put Misery into drive and peel out, Cookie called I hesitated, unsure of what to tell her

"Cook," I said when I answered

"Anything?" she asked

"At Sylvia’s house? No The cops searched the entire place"

"Well, her parents have passed away, but I did find soed to them in Tijeras"

"That’s just thirty minutes from here"

"Yep They owned a cabin"

"And what a perfect place to take someone you’d just forced to write a suicide note and abducted"

"That’s where I’d take someone I’d forced to write a suicide note, then abducted" When I hesitated even longer, she said, "I’ll text you the address It’ll take you a little over half an hour to get there fro my lip, "have you heard from Uncle Bob?"

"Not in a few Why? What did you say to him?"

"I wasn’t very nice, but that’s not the problem He was the lead officer in Reyes’s case"

"I know, hon I don’t underst --" Mysank in I waited for her to absorb the reality of the situation "Where is he?" she asked, groary