Chapter 208
“Alright,” he finally relented. “Let’s get to work then.”
Elena and Massimo worked together with Luca to find more information on Matteo’s attacker. They spent the next hours pouring over police accounts, eyewitness reports, and pictures on social media. It wasn’t until almost noon that their efforts began to pay off.
Massimo had hung up an enlarged map of the city on his office wall. After much research, he began placing pins along certain streets.
“This has to be the path the driver took afterwards,” Massimo declared. “They have to know the city well though -the bastard is careful to not let his face show on any of these traffic light or toll both cameras.”
Elena went over and looked at Massimo’s work. He had managed to get the first two symbols of the truck’s license plate, but they wouldn’t be able to figure out anything from that alone. Elena was more intrigued by the pictures from the traffic lights Massimo had printed out and hung up next to the map.
“There’s a police car across from the truck,” Elena said, pointing at the front of the police cruiser. “The camera on the hood must have gotten a clear shot of them!”
Massimo didn’t share Elena’s enthusiasm. “That’ll take more resources to crack,” he said slowly. “I’m not sure I can get that police car’s footage by tonight.”
Elena looked at the police cruiser’s own license plate and smiled. “Oh, there won’t be any need f Massimo,” she said. “I have an old friend who can help–if you’re okay with that.”
Massimo was surprised Elena knew an out of state cop, but he quickly nodded his head. “Invite him over,” Massimo stated simply.
When Massimo had agreed to let Elena’s old fried to the estate, he had not been prepared to see Joshua Miller again. Though Joshua greeted both Elena and Massimo warmly, the mafia don was not at all pleased. If anything, he was suspicious.
“Why were you in a New York City police cruiser so far from home?” Massimo questioned. “You weren’t even in the right state—you were in Vermont.”
“I was visiting a retired cop’s wedding,” Joshua explained. “Mr. Gavino was a good mentor until he got caught up in a bad accident a few years ago. I always regretted that I was too busy getting adjusted to my caseload as a practicing attorney to help him, but Gavino didn’t hold that against me.”
Massimo had vaguely recalled seeing a few police officers at the wedding, though they had all but disappeared an hour or two after the reception party had started. The fact Gavino was a mole who got chewed out by the cops themselves wasn’t public knowledge, so Gavino had wanted to invite a few rookies who had switched divisions and thus didn’t know his real mafia roots. It had seemed like a harmless enough request, so Massimo let it happen.
And then during the actual wedding and following party, Massimo had been so concerned with mafia troubles and then Elena that he had hardly paid any civilians or cops any attention. Joshua Miller could have very well
been there.
“That doesn’t explain why you were in a police cruiser,” Massimo pressed.
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“I went to the wedding with a cop buddy who used to be in Gavino’s division—before he transferred into domestic crimes,” Joshua explained. He was surprisingly chipper and in a good mood for someone who was getting interrogated by the Mafia King. “We had to leave right after the wedding though and touch base with a police department in Maine–they needed help with an ongoing case.”
“So you didn’t end up leaving Maine until the next morning?” Elena asked.
Joshua merely nodded.
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