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Chapter 266 The Evidence Is Found
The warm water soothed my cramped stomach, and as I regained some comfort, I could
not help but wonder how Jackson had managed to visit me all of a sudden.
I had heard the case had caused such a media storm that he was barred from touching it,
which was why the case had been handed off.
Why was he here now?
Seeing the confusion written all over my face, he explained, “Your case took a turn. Mr.
Young and Mr. Yates came forward with some fresh leads. The department’s checking
them out now. If everything checks out, you’ll be walking free.”
“Fresh leads?” I echoed, surprised. “What kind of leads?”
It had been a whole week since I had seen either of them. I had figured their assurances
that I would not be stuck here long were just talk, so I had not held out hope they would
actually dig up any evidence.
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Jackson cleared his throat. “Mr. Young found some video footage from around the time
Noah was killed in the old factory.”
I scrunched my eyebrows. The place was deserted, right? How could there be any
footage? He tried to reassure me. “Take it easy. The footage was not from the factory
itself–it turned up in a car Moore used to drive.”
He paused for a few seconds before saying, “I think that’s the car Mr. Young gave to
Moore. Remember the day Noah kidnapped you? Moore zoomed to the factory in that very
car, and it was parked right outside. Lucky for us, the place was a rundown mess–most of
the bricks and windows were busted, which meant the car’s dash cam caught some of the
action inside the factory with you three. The car was too far to pick up any sound, and a
lot of the footage is kind of blurry. We have just handed it over to the police to see what
they can make of it.”
I froze, my voice lost. The last thing I remembered before waking up in that factory was
Noah’s ambush, and after that, everything was a blur because of the drugs. I had not even
thought about what was happening outside.
It took me a second to gather my thoughts, then I turned to Officer Jackson with a frown.
“You mentioned Mr. Yates had some clues too. What did he have?”
Just then, a guard came in with some grub. I must have looked like I was about to pass out
because Officer Jackson did not dive into the details. Instead, he handed me the food and
said, “You need to eat.”
The meal was nothing fancy–just a sandwich and some biscuits–but after days without
food, it looked like a feast to me. I had just sipped some warm water, so I chowed down on
the sandwich, eager to fill my empty stomach. Officer Jackson was right there, his voice
low and soothing, “Easy there, don’t rush. You don’t want to choke.”
The sandwich warmed me from the inside, taking the edge off my hunger. I took a bite of a
steamed biscuit and looked up at Officer Jackson, “So, what’s the deal with Mr. Yates‘
evidence?”
He explained, “You know, after you passed out at the factory and Inch whisked you away,
it
was Charlie who called in a doctor for you. This doctor is a big deal back home, a top–
notch clinician. While he was patching you up, he ran some blood tests and found you
were loaded with ether. You probably did not catch it, but Charlie’s place is wired with
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you could have been up and about to do anything to Noah. The time Noah died and when
the drugs hit neatly, so you’re pretty much off the hook for the murder. Plus…”
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He paused, then dropped another bombshell, “Charlie’s got this super clear video that
shows Moore going all psycho.”
I gasped, “And how on earth did Mr. Yates get his hands on that video?” I only showed up
after everything went down, and even if they drove there, a car dashcam would not have
caught Moore’s meltdown.
Officer Jackson chimed in, “It was from inside the factory.”
The revelation that the factory was still operational threw me for a loop, “But I thought
that place was a goner?”
He nodded, confirming, “Yeah, the factory has been out of business, but it is Charlie’s
property. He has been eyeing our neck of the woods for some new energy venture, so he
snapped up the factory a while back. He says he put cameras in because it was turning
into a crash pad for folks with no place else to go. He did not want to be on the hook if
anything happened to them there. He didn’t think much of it at first, but then it hit him,
and he rushed the footage right over.”
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