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Sac and Brady were suitably impressed and excited

Conklin kept going He was on a roll

“How’d he get the card? This, I don’t know But we have his cell phone Maybe his call history will give up the other players in this thing Oh, and to really seal the deal here,” Conklin said, “Joan Murphy’s diamonds were also in O’Brien’s backpack All of them, and they were nicely wrapped in a bandana CSI found O’Brien’s prints on all of it”

Brady said, “Good w

ork, Inspector Conklin Take a bow and the night off”

It was a quarter to six, so Conklin called Cindy and said, “I’ll pick up a pizza” Then he sent her a phone kiss

After that, he called Joan Murphy’s phone and left a voice mail “Joan, this is Rich Conklin We’ve recovered your jewelry There are about three pounds of diaed to your mother Call me, please We’ll need you to identify it”

He clicked off and then spoke to the disconnected phone, “And by the way, Joan, I also need to talk to you about Sam Alton and Arthur O’Brien, both of who to look like the center of a category 5 storm to me”

His phone buzzed

It was Joan

It was almost as if she’d heard him

She said, “Hi, Richard I’ether I want to reive this person another shot at it You understand what I’, don’t you?”

“Where are you? Everyone’s been worried about you Robert called you in as aperson”

“Neveris that I think I knoas behind all of this”

But then the phone went dead in his hand