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The next morning, before Rebecca headed for Homicide, she phoned Deputy Vargas and gave him a quick run-down of what she called some ‘indications’ that Karen might have been working for or with an insurance company, and that she might have been trying to figure out who was behind the jewel heists going on in the county.
“Whoa,” Vargas said. “I didn’t see that coming. What gave you the idea?”
“Let’s call it a hunch. What I want to know is if you found anything from an insurance company in with her stuff.”
“Now that you mention it, hold on a minute.” He put the phone down and she could hear the rattling of papers before he came back on the line. “Here’s something. I found a phone number scribbled on a scratch pad. When I called, I got the private number of a Vice President of Heritage
