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Rebecca requested Audrey Poole’s phone and banking records, but they hadn’t yet arrived, so she decided to go through the few security tapes she and Sutter had gathered from the area near the crime scene. She hoped she would have more luck with these than she had looking at the street in front of Kiki’s spa. Her instincts told her this was more than a robbery gone bad, or a crazed killer stalking lone women. But she needed to rule out those possibilities.
Pacific Heights wasn’t the type of neighborhood with much violent crime, which meant its residents were already up in arms about the dead body found in their neighborhood. Even before the victim’s name had gotten out, it was clear to them that she might have been one of their own—namely, wealthy. They demanded protection and wanted t
