Chapter 119

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If Mike had heard what Gene was saying, he would have agreed with him. He’d gotten the file for the Blue Car murder from the cold case files and was reading through it early Wednesday afternoon, making notes on names and information about everyone involved. One of the suspects in Irene’s murder was her ex-boyfriend, Jim Oliver, who had been harassing her and hanging around her house during the week prior to her death. Another, Dave Adams, was the father of her year-old son. He had been fighting for shared custody of the boy. Lee Ridley was the man in a blue car that had stopped to look into the victim’s car right after it had hit the tree. A witness had gotten enough of his license plate that the police were able to track him down. According to him, he wanted to see if the driver needed help. When he saw the bullet hole in her head, he panicked and took off.