Eleven Days: An Unexpected Love (42 page)

Peter Waters
             
             
             
Yes

"
That
's it,
his
name is Peter, but I don't think he ever mentioned
his
last name. Are there any other Peter's on the list?"
She
was
so excited
she
remembered.

Raymond looked down the list. "Nope, th
ere are no other Peter's and he sat in seat 4A. He sat right where
Lana
said he
would be sitting
."

Mike grinned. "Gotcha, Raymond you know what to do."

"Yes sir I do." He walked out to the SUV and pulled up all the information he could find on Peter Waters.

"Mike
,
I
was
wondering, why did Raymond go outside to use the computer?"
Lana
asked.

"It's a special computer
that
looks up everyth
ing about a person including their picture,
driver's license, passport,
and
commercial licenses. It's the same system cops have in their cars, except our computer is far more adva
nced. We have one in our office
but we don't have one here
.
"

"Am I in
that
computer?"

"Yes you are." Mike answered swallowing hard, dreading
her
next question.

"Have you looked me up
on that computer
?"

"Yes I have."

"So why did you look me up
, or should I ask
?"
She
could have heard a pin drop. The men wanted to hear what Mike had to say. He obviously had no reason to look
her
up
, or at least not until recently
.

"When all t
his
started I looked you up to make sure someone didn't follow you here."

She
looked around and saw the men smiling. "Mike, you
're
teasing me? Did you look me up before
that
?"

He leaned in
and w
his
pered. "I looked you up to make sure you were not married." He gave
her
a truthful answer.

"
That
's not fair because I have to take your word for it." He gave
her
a hug and a quick kiss on the lips, as if
that
would
make
her
feel better.

It did.

With
in five minutes Raymond walked in and
with
a stack of papers. He handed them to Mike to look at
first
. When Mike finished, he handed them to
Lana
. He
smiled
that
'we got him'
smile. "Come here baby and I want you tell me if t
his
is Peter."

All the men
grinned
knowing t
his
was
what they call
'the moment'
.

She
stared down at the picture, and
she
studied it for a few minutes.
She
met Mike's eyes
with
a look of disappointment. "Mike it's not him."

"It's got to be, look again." He couldn't believe
his
ears.

"Mike, it's not him. I'm telling you t
his
is not the man I met at the airport, or the one I saw at the restaurant, or at the police department, or at the grocery store."

Mike threw the papers in the air. "I can't believe t
his
."

Raymond took charge. "Okay everyone find t
his
Peter Waters and see if he's okay, there might be another murder in all t
his
. Let me know what you find."

"Yes sir." Everyone started scurrying around and making phone calls and getting on the computers in their cars.

Mike retreated to the bedroom.

*****

The bedroom door
was
cracked open when Raymond tapped on the door. "Sir I hate to bother you, but I got hold of Peter Water's family. It's not good, they haven't heard from him in over a
week and the police are started a manhunt
for him. They have filed a missing persons report. I've got a call into the detectives so we can cross notes and I'm sending a deputy to interview
his
family and the police. Also I have notified all federal law enforcement agencies of a possible serial killer, and the BAU
has sent
a team. Shop Rite called back and they don't have a camera on the parking lot. Is there anything else you
would
like me to do?"

"No, we're doing all we can. Thanks Raymond." Mike
was
deep in thought on
his
next move. He
got
aggravated
because
he kept eliminating suspects, but couldn't find the killer.

*****

Mike called a meeting.

Everyone
was
anxiously sitting in the living room anticipating their orders. "We are at the point where we have to decide where go from here. We've been working from here because it's more
convenient for
Lana
. Do you think
she
's safe here or should we consider sending
her
to one of our safe houses?"

Raymond spoke first. "I think
she
is safe here, we are
eighty percent
surrounded by water. We can see clearly through the woods because it's winter. The snow allows us to track any footsteps. There is only one road
, and w
e're at the end of a cul-de-sac. Not only
that
if we move, he'll know we found
his
tracking devise."

Mike said. "He knows in short order
that
we will find the devise hidden on
her
purse, and
that
goes without saying
. If we move
her
, he will know for sure we found something. I agree
with
Raymond, stay here and
that
might buy us a couple of days."

"Keep in mind he doesn't know
Lana
remembers him from the airport.
That
will give us another advantage. I say let's wait until the footage comes in from the airport. Let
Lana
look at it and maybe he'll pop up in the FBI data base," said Raymond.

Mike thought a minute. "I agree.
That
's the quickest fix right now. The DNA won't be back for awhile and
his
picture might work much quicker. Joe, is the video
on the way
?"

"They had already filed it away and they
are in the process of
moving from one storage building to another. Everything
was
in disarray. But they have several people looking, and I left Colby to stay to help find it."

"So you finally got to pull rank," teased Raymond.

Joe smiled. "No there
was
a 007 there."

Everyone in the room laughed including
Lana
. It
was
funny now
that
she
knew what the code meant.

Mike said. "Okay, we wait for the video and go from there. Also, we stay here for the time being."

Everyone shook their heads in agreement
.

*****

The guys had just started reviewing
the case when Raymond's phone rang. He covered the speaker and tapped the table to get everyone's attention. "Mike, it's Ken Summers from the BAU."

"Thanks Raymond and go ahead and put him on speaker phone."

"Ken I'm going to put you on speaker phone so the team can hear what you have to say," said Raymond.

"Good afternoon deputies, t
his
is agent Ken Summers, how can I help you?"

Mike spoke first. "I'm assuming you are on your way here."

"Yes we are, and I'm glad you called because the more information we get the quicker we can catch t
his
guy. I do have another urgent stop to make, but we
will be there when we're finished
."

"Tell me what you need from us so we can predict
his
next move," Mike asked.

Lana
walked in quietly and Mike motioned for
her
to sit next to him on the couch. Many papers were spread out on the coffee table and all the men had pad and paper in their hands. Since
she
was
n't as prepared as them,
she
just sat there quietly.

"Raymond told me
that
your victim has seen and talked
with
the suspect, is t
his
correct?" Ken asked.

"Yes, he has approached
her
twice, once at the airport and then again on the plane. He planted a tracking devise on
her
purse. And he followed us to the grocery store and I assume everywhere we've gone."

Ken took a deep breath then continued. "Here is my preliminary diagnosis. He's between the ages of thirty five to forty. Maybe he's been in some hospitals or prisons in the past ten years or at least
treated for a mental illness. As you all know there are several different kinds of stalkers. I categorized t
his
guy as intimacy-seeking stalker. He's delusional about Lana's feelings for him. The stalker is usually an isolated and shy person. He lives alone or
with
someone who is never home. He cannot have a relationship which includes sexual or emotional. The only way he can have sexual gratification is to mastu
rbate to
her
picture or watch
her
from afar."

Everyone's ears perked up because of the masturbating on the window. Ken didn't even know about
that
.

All the men in the room could hear Ken shuffling papers. "He could have several mental disorders, but the most prominent is sociopath. If he can't have
her
, he will give up and kill
her
. Since he has no conscience, he
would
walk out the door and never look back. In
his
mind the killing is justified."

Mike asked. "Should we keep
her
here and let him come to
her
or should we take
her
to a safe house?"

"If you move
her
he will go after
her
, eventually. So I
would
suggest you do something now, or
she
will be looking over
her
shoulder until he's caught or
she
's dead. My guess is he has probably been stalking
her
for a while and
she
didn't know it.
His
type of stalker is
methodical
about
his
hunt and he plans every
move
. My guess, he knew
she
would
be at the airport and he planned every word said to
her
."

Raymond asked him. "Why
has he killed
other people?"

"They got
in the way or they saw him, and I'm guessing the only reason Mike or any of you aren't dead is because your cops."

It
was
obvious Mike
was
a little confused. "How
would
he know I
was
a
cop? I haven't worn my gun
until lately."