This time her surprise was real, her mouth wide open.
‘How do you… what do you mean?’
Sant decided to take a gamble. ‘We believe you have a video showing the shooting of two police officers in 1984.’ Her cold glare told him the gamble had paid off. ‘It was a film made by your childhood friend and neighbour Sheila Morrison – you might have known her by the name Susan Smith – and it explains why you disappeared. It’s important for us to see that video, Chloe. You want good detectives like us to act on what it contains.’
She stood up from the bed and walked slowly towards the window. ‘I don’t know where… it’s lost.’
‘Are you sure?’
She nodded unconvincingly.
‘Tell me about it. I believe Sheila and her journalist colleague at the time, Neil Rothwell, filmed Sergeant Gray and PC Tanner be
