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“I’m Shannon Green” The woman nodded “Who are you?”

“We’re private investigators” Lance handed her a business card

She studied it for aher head back “I haven’t seen Mr Voss lately If you ask me, he’s crazy pants I hope he moves He’s scared the bejesus out of me more than once”

“How?” Lance asked

“Skulking around the property at night like some kind of paranoid ninja wannabe He always see” She pointed to the house behind her “I live on the bottoht hiet a gliht those blackout drapes just to make sure he couldn’t see in”

“Did you complain?”

“I called the landlord” She rolled her eyes “He couldn’t care less about any of us I reported the incident to the police They ca by Wasn’t his fault that etting a dog A big one But if Voss moves, I won’t have to”

“Do you rean asked

“Not exactly, ed

Lance glanced over his shoulder at Voss’s aparte?”

“No” Shannon shook her head “But Voss rents it with his unit”

“Does he ever have any company?” Lance asked

Shannon’s hands dropped to her sides “Not that I’ve ever seen”

“Thank you for your help,” Morgan said

The neighbor went back inside her apartment

After her door closed, Lance turned back to the garage and stared at it He really wanted to see Voss’s personal space “There’s anext to the door Maybe we can get a look inside”

Even knowing that Voss was locked up, Lance felt like he was being watched The place gave hi and spotted a surveillance camera arage Conveniently, the neighbor wouldn’t see Lance pick the lock He picked up a thin branch fro it over the camera so that the dead leaves covered the lens

“I did not see that,” Morgan said

“See what?” Lance checked the rest of the building for cameras but didn’t find any more

A tall hedge blocked the view fro tools froot it

“Breaking and entering?” Morgan looked over his shoulder

“Just looking around We won’t disturb anything” He pulled gloves from his pocket and handed her a pair “We did it at the Barone house, and you didn’t mind”

“They had clearly vacated the house, and the door was unlocked Technically we only entered,” she whispered “And there weren’t any nosy neighbors”

“You could wait in the car” He knew da, we’ll just slip out and call the police” Lance pushed the door open and stepped onto a concrete slab Despite the ware was cold and da boxes occupied half the space

Morgan sidestepped to the pile “They’re empty Most are from major retail chains” She shifted a box “Walmart, Amazon, Home Depot Mr Voss is quite the online shopper”

“But what did he buy?”

She peeked inside a few boxes “No packing slips”

There were only two other itee: a motorcycle and a chest freezer Lance walked to the freezer and opened it Dozens of packages, wrapped in thick layers of plastic wrap, filled the freezer

“What’s in those?” Morgan stood next to him and peered inside