O'Reilly chewed on the old fashioned cake donut in the car with the air conditioner on, but the engine off. He had the phone on speaker phone. The podcast revealing insider info about the case was being discussed. A squeaky voiced man spoke about how a nearly middle aged man had apparently quote un quote killed himself, but there were signs of blunders all around.
First, the lead detective who has a proven track record completely botched the scene. Second, there was a scream heard by multiple tenants. Third, one tenant, the first one who entered into the deceased's apartment after the body was found had said that there was a note.
But then why do people say there wasn't a note? the podcast's lady co host asked.
Well, that's the thing. Nobody knows. As of now this is all just insider information leaked.
O'Reilly thought to himself, what bunch of morons. If they have inconclusive information, why are they wasting their and everyone else's time discussing it. He looked down at the phone to see that the episode still had fifty minutes left. What possibly could they discuss further given that the two had admitted that the information they were going on was no more valid than high school rumors.
He wished he could call in. Like those old
radio
shows. Tell them, "actually Patterson was an imbecile. He couldn't discern his ass from a crime scene."
He snickered at the imagination of him calling that in. Then he grabbed another donut, the final one, and munched on it. There was one thing that was interesting though. That tenant. The one who had first entered the apartment and had claimed there had actually been a note. She was no longer saying there was a note. She had switched up her story.
But the original transcript of her statement. It was missing now. So on record there had never been an instance of her saying that there was a note. So everyone at the scene -- and anyone listening to the
podcast
episode -- believed there was in fact a note. But it was covered up.
O'Reilly would have to track the path of that original transcript. Who had interviewed the tenant. Who had recorded it. And how had the record gone missing. Who had it last. These were the questions he needed answered.
