Chapter 7
The New York City detective got back to Mike Thursday morning. The first thing Mike asked, once he’d told him why he was interested in Gerald Nivens, was if he had any pictures of him. After checking, which took a few minutes, the detective said he did, from his driver’s license. Mike asked him to send him a copy.
“I have another question,” Mike said. “Did you run his prints through the AFIS database?”
“What prints?” the detective replied. “We brought him in for questioning, but with nothing to hold him on until we checked his alibi, we didn’t take them. By the time we found out the alibi was a fake and went to his apartment, he was gone. When the CSI team dusted for prints, they found a couple of partials that might have been his. That was despite the fact he’d wiped every su
