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.”“It was also a good spot in case Mackey had a tail,” Nord added.“The killer knew a tail car would have to just keep moving by, and then he’d have Mackey alone.”“Aren’t we giving this guy a little too much credit?” Pratt asked.“How would he know the cops were onto this guy? Just from a newspaper article? Come on.”Neither Bosch nor Rider answered and everyone else silently digested the unspoken suggestion that the killer had a connection to the department or, more specifically, the investigation.“All right, what’s next?” Pratt said.“I think the containment on this is maybe another twenty-four hours tops.After that it’s going to be in the papers and upstairs on six, and there’s going to be hair on the walls if we don’t wrap it up first.What do we do?”“We’ll take the pen registers,” Bosch said, speaking for himself and Rider.“And go from there.”Bosch had been thinking about the note to Mackey he had seen on the desk in the service station the day before.A call to verify employment from Visa.As Rider had pointed out when she first heard about it, Mackey wasn’t into leaving trails like credit cards.It was something that didn’t fit and therefore he wanted to go after it.“We have all of the printouts right here,” Robinson said.“The line that was busiest was the one into the station.All kinds of business calls.”“Okay, Harry, Kiz, you want the registers?” Pratt asked.Rider looked at Bosch and then at Pratt.“If that’s what Harry wants.He seems to be on a roll today.”As if on cue Bosch’s phone began to chirp.He looked at the screen.It was Raj Patel.“We’ll see what kind of a roll right now,” he said as he opened the phone.Patel said he had good and bad news.“The good news is we still had the exemplar skid from the house in records here.The latents we recovered this morning did not match any of them.You found somebody new, Harry.It could be your killer.”What this meant was that fingerprint examples from the members of the Verloren family and others who had appropriate access to the house were still on file in the SID print lab.None of those examples matched the fingerprints and palm print recovered that morning from beneath Rebecca Verloren’s bed.Of course fingerprints could not be dated, and it was possible that the prints discovered that morning had been left by whoever had installed the bed.But it seemed unlikely.The prints were taken off the underside of the wooden slat.Whoever had left them had most likely been under the bed.“And the bad news?” Bosch asked.“I just ran them through the California system.No matches.”“What about the FBI?”“That’s next but that won’t be so fast.They have to process it.I will send it through with an expedite request but you know how that goes.”“I do, Raj.Let me know when you know, and thanks for the effort.”Bosch closed the phone.He felt a steep letdown and his face showed it.He could already tell the others knew the score before he delivered the news.“No match on the DOJ database,” he said.“He’ll try the bureau’s base but that will take a while.”“Shit!” said Renner.“Speaking of Raj Patel,” Pratt said, “his brother scheduled the autopsy for two o’clock today.I want one team there.Who wants to take it?”Renner weakly raised his hand.He and Robleto would take it.It was an easy assignment if you didn’t mind the visuals.The meeting soon broke up after Pratt assigned Robinson and Nord the service station and the interviews of the people Mackey worked with there.Marcia and Jackson would work on pulling reports together and into a murder book.They were still the lead investigators and would coordinate things from room 503.Pratt looked at the bill, divided it by nine and told everyone to put in ten.This meant Bosch had to throw in a ten even though he hadn’t even had a cup of coffee.He didn’t protest.It was the price of being late and being the guy who put them on this path.As everyone stood Bosch caught Rider’s eye.“Did you come directly here or did you ride with somebody?”“Abel gave me a lift
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