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wasn’t. The only other thing we have is his online relationship with Heidi from a couple years ago. We don’t have a motive. We’ll know which direction to go when we get these results.”
    “And then you’ll find Tyler?”
    “I’ll start looking. You’ll do the same?” Zach asked.
    Kori nodded. “Will you get the results tonight?”
    “I’ll put a rush on them, but I make no promises.”
    “And if it’s not his DNA—?”
    Zach shrugged. “ Then we move on to Tyler and whatever other leads come up.”
    Kori gave Zach a quick kiss on the cheek and he turned to leave. Kori walked back upstairs and found Jay with his head in his hands on the same stool she’d sat on less than an hour earlier.
    “Tell me more about your relationship with Heidi—everything you know about her,” Kori requested and flipped to the next page on the pad of paper she’d been using. She picked up her pen and was ready to take notes. If she was going to solve this mystery and clear her brother’s name like she’d cleared her own she was going to need to know every last detail.
    Jay looked up. “Get me another beer. Then I’ll tell you everything I know about her.”
    Kori grabbed two more from the fridge, popped the tops off of them and sat on the stool next to Jay.
    “Heidi Fischer. What caught me first was her looks. You know I’m a sucker for red hair. She had long red hair. I couldn’t not check out her profile. And what I read was too good not to contact her.”
    “What caught your attention?” Kori asked before he could overlook those details.
    “She had two dogs. She’d grown up in Scoter Circle. She loved music— loved it. So I messaged her through the dating site. I learned that she was divorced. No kids. She played the piano. That was her true passion. But she was also a teller at a bank. She was trying to move up in the bank so she could make enough money to save and then be able to retire early so she could focus on her music.”
    “How long did you guys message back and forth?”
    “Only about a week. Then we started calling each other. I hate talking on the phone but it was easy with her. We’d talk everyday almost. And for at least an hour.”
    “What’d you talk about?”
    Jay got a faraway look in his eyes like he was remembering good times. “Everything. And nothing. Her work. Mine. Our families. Where she’d traveled. How I never did. Music. Books. Hermit Cove. Scoter Circle. Nothing that really sticks out. But there wasn’t anything we couldn’t talk about. You know?”
    Kori did. She felt that way with Zach. Their conversations were always easy and any silences weren’t awkward. “It sounds like you have only good memories of her. What made you stop talking to her?”
    “She got back together with her ex. She was pregnant I learned after a few months and they were going to give it another shot. She’d gotten pregnant after they divorced but he was the father.”
    “Do you know anything about him? Could he have wanted her dead?”
    “I don’t know. I only know his name—Brett Carr.”
    Kori snapped into action, grabbing her laptop from the coffee table and bringing it back to the kitchen.
    “What are you doing?” Jay asked.
    “Looking up Brett Carr. We need to know everything about him . Did he own a gun that he used to kill Heidi? Does he have past criminal charges? Was he still with Heidi? If he had a motive, he would be on the suspect list.”
    “Wouldn’t the police already have questioned him?”
    “Who knows? I think Zach is great. But I don’t know that the police can really do their work well with all the bureaucracy that goes on behind the scenes.”
    Even with Jay barely interested in clearing his own name, Kori pulled up Google and typed in Brett Carr . She got hits from all over the country so narrowed it down to Brett Carr Scoter Circle .
    She was rewarded with plenty of information and she started opening web pages to sift through it all. Jay finally came out of his