(Garrett concentrates to not show any emotion as Hanna gives him a piercing stare. The tape recorder was still taping and a video camera mounted on a nearby wall continued to tape everything happening. Hanna had no problem signing a release for her requested visit to be recorded. Her confession to killing Lana was officially taped and court admissible.)
Garrett:( referring to the text from Gini he had just read) I'm glad to read that things are finishing up well in a very interesting way. (He puts his phone away.)
Hanna: I'm done here. I want to go. Just know I am the only one who can take credit for stopping the nightmare that has paralyzed this city for two years. You should thank me for explaining everything to you, spoonful by spoonful, like feeding a baby. I knew I didn't have time for you to figure it out on your own--- just as if you really could--which I doubt very much. I'm expecting some good plea deals and you better believe me when I tell you I know exactly what I am doing. That wasn't a text about things finishing up well. We are just beginning. Do you hear me? We are just beginning. Like I said you don't have a clue what you are up against. In fact, I think it would be beyond your comprehension. You can't even put together and figure out that the company's missing $800,000 was filtered into the Dover brothers personal checking accounts to cover extra expense. Lana was that extra expense and she had been for eight month. They were giving her $100,000 a month plus so much more. She took them for all she could. This is all going to come out. I confronted her that the murders and her blackmailing had to stop and she attacked me. It was self defense. I had to kill her. I was the one who stopped the murders and I know people are going to identify that I put my life on the line to help free this city from these corrupted people. (On the way out she stops and turns towards Garrett and says) Tell your sister that to pay off my bill was very important to me.
Garrett: Don't be so sure of yourself. That's all I have to say. Hanna, you have now admitted you have some inside information about a bank wire that happened just this morning. Would you tell me this? Since the Dover brothers were big players in this untraceable money wire organization and you have told us there is a chain of command inside this organization: Did someone above the Dover brothers in the organization have you execute them. That would give you an instant ranking and good standing for doing that. Did the organization ask you or tell you to kill the Dover brothers and you took advantage of a big opportunity to get in with the organization?
Hanna: I take the fifth. (She smirks as she continues to be escorted out of the room. Officer Miles and Garrett decide to go to the police station and sort out some of their thoughts. Each of them, on the way to the police station stops for takeout meals for two. Each one didn't know the other was getting the other a meal. When they got back to the police station and met in the office of Officer Miles they laughed that both of them had bought a surprise meal for the other.)
Miles: I think we have enough food here that we could work way past midnight and not be hungry.
Garrett: I'll say. That's probably the way it will go. We have a lot to go through for getting answers to so many questions. I knew there was something very important about the envelope. I kept going back to my note that Patrick had heard Lana say to Maze that she considered the envelop her "insurance policy". I knew it was important and I knew Lana had written something down that she could use. It was like having an ace up her sleeve only she wanted the brothers to know she had that ace to play and she didn't have to be there to play it. When Maze took the envelope with him that solidified the envelope importance to me. Also, that she had signed across the seal of the manila envelope the letter had been put into. That seemed like an extra effort to make the envelope to hold up legally for authenticity. Also, Maze had commented about having his DNA on the envelope by licking it to seal it. I knew that meant Maze was part of the legal authenticity of the contents of the envelope. That would show he was entrusted with the letter and would have legal evidence to prove it.. Lana had put a lot of thought into the letter she wrote and the way it could hold up legally if she wasn't there. But I still have some questions about Lana.
Miles: What do you have in mind?
Garrett: Why did Lana Daltine want to take a photo of the necklace while buying it. That was the picture of the necklace that was used in the newspaper.
Miles: I'd say that cropped picture was of a lot more than the necklace. It showed the storefront door and the front windows with traffic driving by. I know if I was taking a picture of a necklace I would take a close up. But in this picture you can barely see the necklace. The newspaper had to use a lot of magnification to get the necklace enlarged enough and clear enough for it to be printed in the newspaper.
Garrett: When I was going through all the files I only saw the newspaper clipping. So, I haven't seen the original picture. I just assumed that was the picture exactly as she had taken it.
Miles: That picture of the necklace was cropped and the necklace was only a small part of the original picture.
Garrett: My, I'd like to see the original picture. Where is it now?
Miles: It has to be with the evidence. Do you think you overlooked it?
Garrett: It's a possibility, I suppose.
Miles: Maybe it was put into a different file, an active file that is currently being worked on. I'll check that file. (Miles leaves the room and then returns with the active file. He opens the the file and goes through some things. Then says,) Yes, here it is. It was put in the active file because we were trying to identify the chauffeur. (Miles hands the photo to Garrett. Garrett looks intensely at the chauffeur who is standing by the front door of the store in the photo.)
Garrett: Wait a minute. I know this person. Well, I don't know him but I know his name. His name is Nate. That's all I know. I saw him briefly in the bar and grill located beside A-Maze-Ing Tattoos. Gus, the bartender, called him "Nate". That's all I know.
Miles: That's more than we knew. This is being a productive session. Let's keep going. What else do you think should be checked out.
Garrett: Now that I know about this picture of the chauffeur I think it is a real possibility that Lana was trying to give us a clue. She may have sensed things were going wrong. I'm going to concentrate on finding the chauffeur. By looking at this picture it is apparent she stepped back far enough from the necklace that the picture would include the chauffeur. He is on the top edge. Also, I'm wondering how did she have access to such a large amount of cash each month. I'm going to check banks in the area.
Miles: It seems like you are shifting your focus to be still on Lana. We know she was killed the night she bought the necklace. Her body was found in a freezer in a cabin in the woods. Vandals said they noticed the padlocked door had been kicked in. They decided to go in and see if there was anything they could take. They had a big surprise when they opened the freezer to see the contents, Trying to use only their flashlights in the middle of the night, it was a fright for them. We got a frantic call from them and they waited to tell us that they had not done the forced entry. They were so shook up we let them go right away after taking their statements. The crime scene investigators reported Lana was wearing the same dress as that night in the jewelry store. The body, of course, was well preserved. The autopsy report estimated it had been close to two weeks since her time of death. Her purse had been placed under her. It was obvious to us whoever did it wanted to keep the body well preserved and wanted us to know her identity. Lana was such a recluse at her apartment. All services available only came when she called for them to come. So there was no missing person report ever filed. The inhouse kitchen said that she did have her times of just eating fruit. She would have big bowls of fresh fruit delivered to her room and then she would go days without calling for a meal to be delivered. At the crime scene her phone was found under the freezer. It must have dropped out of her purse and was accidently kicked under the freezer. The pictures were on her phone. We have two pictures that were taken that night. One picture is the distant view of the necklace and the other is a selfie of her wearing the necklace that same night. So, I think that, with Hanna's confession, we can finish up Lana's case.
Garrett: I read all about those findings in the case files but I think there are more answers to find. There is something so wrong going on. Have you ever seen so many untraceable money wires? Could the Dover brothers have been involved in a world wide underground invisible cash wiring syndicate?
Miles: One thing we now know is why Richard told Hanna that "it didn't have to be like this". Richard and Henry, somehow, realized that Hanna had killed Lana. Maybe they knew from Lana about Maze and at the same time knew Hanna was seeing Maze. Richard found out about Lana's murder from Henry and it was purposely done to look like the serial killer. I think that enraged him. He and Henry knew there was a letter Lana had written and upon her death the letter would tell how she was the one who got away and would name the serial killers as the Dover brothers. They had gone out of their way to keep her quiet and I don't think they had any intention of killing Lana. It was a total surprise to Richard and Henry that Lana had been murdered. They were very angry because they were going down because of Lana's letter. They had no idea that Maze would not come forward with the letter because he must have loved Lana too much and didn't want to help Hanna in any way.
Garrett; Lana must have told the Dover brothers about the letter and that was her leverage. I think they decided to leave her alone because the letter would take them down. Hanna was enraged with jealousy and knew Maze was going to leave the country with Lana in two days. I think Hanna's intention was to stop at any measure or in any way Lana and Maze from being together and that is exactly what she did. I don't think Hanna murdering Lana had anything to do with trying to stop the blackmail and had everything to do with having Maze all to herself. But then there is some sort of chain of command that opens the possibility a person of higher rank than the Dover brothers ordered their execution and asked Hanna to do it. That person would offer all sorts of fringe benefits and favors for following through on the brothers assassinations. Maybe, the Dover brothers had become too big of liability to the organization especially if Hanna had leaked some information she knew about the serial murders.
to be continued: Tomorrow
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