Paige looked into the business further, and now that she had a starting point, she was able to find more, able to narrow down the mess of references to Braeburn and find the ones that mattered. She found the company that Lars Ingram had worked for, then found the records to establish exactly who had been involved with it.
Just one other man, named Cal Sanders.
The fact that Ingram had named the company rather than just giving Paige his name worried her a little, but maybe that was just his way of making her work harder, forcing her to jump through more hoops even after his death.
Whatever the reason, Paige couldn’t afford to ignore Cal Sanders.
Paige ran that name next, and quickly found that he had a record. A long record. He’d been in and out of prison multiple times and was no stranger at all to violence. Paige pulled up his files, and those files troubled her even more, because there were psych assessments there relating to one of his cases. Those contained details of the small crimes he’d committed as a child, the time he’d been caught hurting a neighbor’s dog, a kid who’d been hurt when no one could prove it wasn’t an accident.
It was the kind of file that pointed to a psychopath, and maybe to more.
Paige forced herself not to get too excited. She didn’t want to send her and Christopher running off after another lead only for it to fall apart. She checked Sanders’s prison record, wanting to make sure that he wasn’t inside at the time of any of the murders, but it seemed that he’d been out for at least the last three years.
Had he come out of prison, met up with his old friend Lars Ingram, and decided to join in with the darkest side of the man’s life?
“I think we have something,” Paige said, finally satisfied. “A man who used to work with Lars Ingram at Braeburn Contracting Services. He has a violent history, and he was out of prison at the time of the murders.”
“Do you have an address for him?” Christopher asked.
Paige nodded. “He lives in D.C., out in the suburbs.”
Meaning that he was still in the area, still there to commit the murders.
“Then we need to go talk to this guy right away.”