It was nearly a week before the undercover agent was able to make contact with Paul. It was another week before they learned that Paul hadn’t killed Ronny. After he was arrested, Paul’s alibi panned out. He’d been in Birmingham all week. The motel manager had receipts that confirmed his story. The only consolation for Marie was that they had gotten one drug pusher off the streets... for awhile.
She found it discouraging that she’d not managed to find a motive for any of Ronny’s acquaintances. That seemed to be the problem with all the cases she was on. The murder weapon had been a Kahr. In each case, the same type of gun. Yet, what were the motives?
It had already been a bad day when she called the rehab center to check on Melanie, They told her Melanie had left. Most likely, she was bac
