“That would help, with all of us working on different suspects it’s hard to keep track.” Carter looked at Jenna. “Do we have contact info on Peter Huntley?”
Jenna nodded. “Yeah, it’s in his file along with everything Phelps from the social services told us about him.”
“I’ll ask Kalo to run a background check on him. He might be the sleeper.” Carter stood up and went outside the room to make the call.
Jenna stared at the whiteboard. It had notations everywhere. She moved to one end and placed the names, Suffolk, Cleaves and Huntley on the top of the board and separated them with vertical lines. “Okay this is what we have so far:”
Roger Suffolk.
Spousal abuse.
Prefers underage girls.
Was in DC time of the bombings.
Was in Blackwater and Louan time of bombings.
Has experience with explosives.
Had a fight with Wood.
Wife died in accident caused by brake failure.
Unremorseful.
Jenna turned to look at them. “Then we have the secretary of DC magistrate Graham Lindley died in the car bombing. Lindley was the friend who reported him for chasing underage girls and caused his family to leave Blackwater.” She sighed. “So, what’s missing? Suffolk had no other dealings with Sheriff Stuart.”
“Did we look?” Kane lifted his gaze from his tablet. “His wife wrecked her car in Blackwater. That would’ve come under Sheriff Stuart’s jurisdiction.” He scanned the files. “Yeah, Stuart handled the case and he had a question mark on the brake failure. He hauled Suffolk in for questioning. From the case file Kalo sent, Suffolk’s lawyer wanted an expert opinion and it was placed into the hands of a Louan brake specialist and later went on to a car insurance assessor. He passed the claim.”
“Wonderful.” Jenna snorted. “All members of Suffolk’s sect, no doubt. He did mention he thought her death was divine intervention.”
“Most likely they belong to his sect for it to be blatantly swept under the carpet.” Kane shook his head. “It’s quite clear from Sheriff Stuart’s notes he made a lot of noise in an effort to find justice for Suffolk’s wife.”
“Then we come along and poke at the wasps’ nest and likely caused Stuart’s death. Suffolk knew we were checking out his wife’s death from our questioning. His church grapevine would have informed him we’ve been all over asking questions. Suffolk wouldn’t have wanted Stuart joining forces with us and reopening his wife’s the case, so he removed the problem.” Jo looked from one to the other. “Suffolk fits for the local bombings and he didn’t like us poking around but apart from the fight way back with Graham Lindley we don’t have any physical evidence to link him to the DC bombings.”
“Not yet.” Carter stood in the doorway. “Kalo is chasing down links now. Still no DNA match. It could take days or never.”
Jenna added to Suffolk’s list:
Investigated by Sheriff Stuart after wife’s death and the underage girls’ accusation.
She chewed on the pen scanning the notes. “Okay, next we have John Cleaves:”
Fined for stealing C-4 from workplace.
Fined for starting fires.
C-4 found in house is the same batch as DC bombings.
On scene at Luan and Blackwater bombings.
Had a dispute with Wood over Sophie.
Arrested in DC for stalking his girlfriend.
Jailed for 3 months in DC. Had a problem with his counsel and magistrate.
The lawyer representing him, died in the bombings.