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Hirschbeck grunted “Sondra told e account in the systeins came on I’ve asked the financial auditors to verify the account’s purpose,” he said

So Hirschbeck already knew but had been playing it close to the vest How could I bla it’s not another account, but the saed the dates to set up Brad The only way to verify it is to hire a computer forensics expert to determine if the computer records were altered and, if possible, by whoic in this

He grunted “Hiring a computer expert is an expense we hadn’t anticipated First, we have to justify it with headquarters”

Daht “If the auditors find only one suspicious account—and I think they will—you’ll still face the question of whether that account was created after Brad came on or it’s the same one your employee mentioned, and it was altered to i the computers”

For a long h

t I guess we’ll have to wait and see what the auditors find Got any other expensive suggestions?”

“No, but I have a question,” I said “There’s another potential suspect in Sondra Jones’s murder Possibly a Kozmik employee or soe—and hard to forget Does he sound familiar?”

“Not really”

“He was caught on ca Jones was ins arrived You’re sure you’ve never seen so or in the hall?”

“I haven’t, but that doesn’t hty-five employees I don’t know every one of the business with any of them”

I suppressed a sigh “Do you keep photos of your employees on file?”

“No” He sounded brusque and defensive “You could contact Personnel,” he said in a cal that description Otherwise, you’d probably have to check with each department head If he’s not an employee, someone may knohy he was here”

I groaned underfrohty-five employees, but it would eat up the clock— and shoe leather Seeing no alternative, I said, “I’ll start with Personnel”

Hirschbeck gave me the number for a wo, lots of hard A’s When I described the hulk, she grew animated “Gosh, it’s been quite a while, but I re I thought he was creepy”