“So what’s up with you?” he asked.
“Talked to Rick yesterday. He told me something I want to run by you.”
She explained that Marianne Freemantle had called her son one night earlier in the week and asked if Nora Dockson had contacted him. Rick had answered “no” and the conversation ended.
But the question had made him curious. The next morning, he’d pulled Patty-Jean Thomas’s file. The transcript of his interview with her wasn’t in it. The recording he’d made had vanished from the tape library.
Teddy concluded, “Rick says that as far as official documents go, that interview never took place.”
Kent whistled. “So if Nora contacts Rick, he could deny he tried to make a deal with her mother.”
“And he probably should,” Teddy replied. “If he says that Freemantle told him to offer probation
