“Normal I guess, like any other couple. They had their fights just like anyone.”
“About what?”
“You know, the usual, about the children, life, they were always arguing about something lately.”
“What about specifically do you know?”
“I guess it was about the way she’d disappear without telling anyone where she was running off to.” Detective Sparks made note of that, but vividly remembered Niall Davis saying that his wife would never leave the house for any length of time without first letting him know.
Now here was the housekeeper and the nanny both claiming different. Could it be that he didn’t know, that he had no idea…but wait, she just said they’d argued about it.
“Where did she go do you know?”
“No idea, but it was very suspicious. I think he suspected her of having an affair.”
“Did you hear him say that?”
“Not in so many words, no, but it was easy to read between the lines.”
Her mind was already going in that direction but she needed more to go on. Seems to be the theme of the day. “Would you know of any places she liked to hang out? Did she go out late at night?”
“Not usually no, and not without him. He kept a very close watch on her when he was home. I don’t think they went out much, and it was always with the O’Rourke s when they did.”
Again the way she said this was very leading and Detective Sparks wondered if she was trying to tell her something in a roundabout way. “And where were you this morning between the hours of eight and nine?”
“I was here of course. I get up at six every morning with the kids.”
“And Mrs. Davis, what time did she get up?” Bridgette twisted her brow and gave the question some thought.
“I’d have to say just a bit after seven, yes, Mr. Niall had just gone out the door when she came down. I was getting the children’s breakfast ready.”
“And what did she do when she came down?”
“She asked Nettie for her morning coffee and then the phone rang.”
“Which phone, the house phone or her cell?”
“No it wasn’t a ring, I remember now, it was a text message.”
The victim’s phone had been found in her jeans pocket and was down at the station in the evidence room waiting for tech to go through it. It was pass coded so Detective Sparks hadn’t been able to go through it as yet. But this information was very helpful.
They’d gone through her car but there was nothing there of any use to the investigation. Nothing to point them in the direction of who, she might have met. “So what happened after she got the text? Did she answer do you know?”
“I’m not sure, I just know she ran back up the stairs and took a quick shower before running out the door.”
“So she got a text not long after her husband left but you don’t know from whom.”
“No, I don’t know. Maybe you should ask Mr. and Mrs. O’Rourke , they were very close.” Again with the innuendos!
“Okay, thank you for your time, I won’t keep you away from the kids any longer. Here’s my card, give me a call if you think of anything else.” She left her to go back to the kids who were busy playing with their toys and headed back downstairs to the den where she found Mr. Davis sitting alone with his head hanging down.
“Oh Mr. Davis, where did the O’Rourke s go? I need to talk to them.”
“Valerie was very upset so she asked Riley to take her home. They were very close you know, they went to school together.”
He took a sip from his glass and rested back in the chair. She thought in that moment that she’d be very surprised if he had anything to do with his wife’s death, he looked like a very broken man.
“Okay then, I guess I’ll head out to the farm.”