The following day, Hank had contacted Lea’s father Robert Pittman. He had to do this legally to inform him that his car had been impounded. But before informing him of this, he had decided to ask him a few questions to find out exactly how much access Lea actually had to the vehicle and whether anyone else would have had the use of it. The answers he got were exactly what he would have hoped for. Lea would have been the only person to have had access to the blue station wagon currently sitting in the police compound.
Robert Pittman had explained that he had previously kept two vehicles; one was for weekends and personal use, while the station wagon had been used for driving to work and for carrying tools and equipment around. Now that he was looking at taking retirement, he had no n
