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Casey pulled the folded list of nue, smoothed it out and handed it to Janet

“What is this?” Janet asked, scanning the page

“Nuiven to us by a source I’m not at liberty to na to figure out why Ronald would encrypt it and what the contents are”

“All I see are random numbers”

“That’s just it We don’t think they’re random We were able to decipher number 266, which is the sixth number down” Casey leaned forward and pointed “It’s a complete file on Valerie Pintar”

“Valerie Pintar?” Janet looked shocked “Why?”

“We’re not sure But we’re wondering if each of these numbers corresponds to a woman Ronald was sexually involved with over the years You worked with hi time and knew him better than anyone—maybe even his oife”

“Why do you need this information? Hoill it help Madeline?”

“We want to interview all these wo about Ronald’s health—his irresponsible use of ht have contributed to his death That would help cast reasonable doubt, should things progress that far”

Janet looked back down at the list “So Ronald encrypted the entire file?”

“Yes”

Biting her lip, Janet continued to stare at the numbers “Do you know the encryption key? Maybe if I think about it, I could see a relationship between Valerie, the number 266 and the encryption key that could help you crack the other files much faster Would that help?”

“More than you know” Casey had already whipped out her iPhone and was busily texting Aidan “I’ll get you the encryption key now”

She pressed Send, and waited

A minute later, Aidan’s reply arrived: veaLmarsalA18756 penneputtanescacannoli