The Woman Behind the Wheel

Investigators examined the SUV more closely.

The fingerprints on the steering wheel belonged to the missing woman’s sister, Laura.

Police brought Laura in for questioning.

Mason placed the evidence on the table.

“Did you kill your sister?”

Laura immediately answered:

“I didn’t kill her.”

Mason looked at her for a moment.

Then he calmly replied:

“We didn’t say she was dead.”

Laura froze.

At that moment, Mason noticed genuine fear on her face.

She wasn’t simply afraid of being arrested.

Something else clearly frightened her.

The Missing Woman Had Found Something

Laura eventually explained why her sister had been frightened.

The missing woman had discovered something involving money.

A lot of money.

She had found evidence involving fake companies and overseas accounts. She also believed that someone had been moving money that belonged to dead people.

As a result, she became convinced that someone was laundering money.

She had grown increasingly afraid.

Mason began connecting the pieces.

The blood.

The jacket.

The missing security footage.

The black SUV.

Instead of proving that the woman was dead, the evidence might have been designed to make police think she was dead.

The question had changed.

Mason no longer asked only:

Where was the missing woman?

He also wanted to know:

Who wanted everyone to believe she was dead?