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The door to the meeting room clunked heavy behind the two detectives. Through the glass partition, Alice could see across the office. She stood close to the glass, watching Lopez and Sadowski make a case to Captain Reynolds, showing him the photograph of Brooke. Before long, they returned to the room, with their boss in tow.
"So fill me in, Alice. What have you got?" Captain Reynolds asked, leaning against the wall opposite her.
"Again? We've just been through it," said Alice.
"I want to hear it from you. Give me the highlights. The sixty-second update."
"Well, the long and short is, I believe the hair sample left with the note isn't Brooke's. It's her mom's. And that's why the two samples matched. At first, I thought it was a scam. I was an insurance investigator before I was a P.
