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“Yes, it is. Who’s asking?” Reno’s supervisor had taken the day off due to sickness when they went to speak to him and they were not told when he would return. Coates was glad to have him on the phone to clear up some poking questions. She hung up and leaned back in her seat. “Well, the supervisor doesn’t know much. He said Reno works from 9 am to 5 pm, they are a small vending company and he works in the shipping department. According to him, Reno works hard, doesn’t miss many days and he’s never been written up. He said he gets along with everyone.”
“What about cameras?” Chay asked.
“None on site. We need to take a trip to his job to see if he could come and go without being noticed.”
“While we're out, we might as well check out some of …show more content…

Since she lived alone, no one should be going in and out,” Coates said. “So you still think it’s the boyfriend?”
“Reno. Yeah, I think it’s him. Something tells me that the friends and family alibis are going to check out. But his alibi, I don’t know. He works from 9 to 5.”
“Yeah, that puts him the proximity of the time of death. Something tells me that his roommate, who is his cousin will back up his story. Let’s see if his alibi holds water. There are no cameras and the only eyes we can rely on are his co-workers. We would have to work our butts off to prove that it’s him and I don’t want to build a bias case trying to prove a theory.”
“True. I’ll make sure to keep an open mind, but I can’t help it. My blood’s itchy, and I think he’s going to scratch it. I don’t see the family or the victim’s best friends wanting to her hurt. But we will follow where the leads take us and go from there.”
“Are you ready?” Coates asked.
Chay grabbed his jackets. “Let’s do this.”
Chapter 3
“Mama, look at Savannah’s last Facebook post.” Sitting in front of the computer in the family room, Lynn had been scrolling through Savannah Facebook for hours. She’d laughed and cried, but after hours of going through it, she took notice of certain things.
Darlene walked over and leaned in to see what Lynn was referring to.
“See.” Lynn pointed to an entry Savannah had posted.

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