{"id":14248,"date":"2026-10-07T21:11:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/?p=14248"},"modified":"2026-10-07T21:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:11:59","slug":"part-24-nolans-arrest-pointed-to-rebecca-and-the-woman-who-claimed-to-help-us-finally-revealed-what-happened-to-diane-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/?p=14248","title":{"rendered":"PART 24 \u2013 Nolan\u2019s Arrest Pointed to Rebecca, and the Woman Who Claimed to Help Us Finally Revealed What Happened to Diane Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nolan refused to talk about Rebecca without federal prosecutors present.<\/p>\n<p>That alone made Daniel take him seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Not believe him.<\/p>\n<p>Take him seriously.<\/p>\n<p>By the next morning, Rebecca had been moved to a different holding location.<\/p>\n<p>Her cooperation agreement was paused.<\/p>\n<p>Diane still had not physically surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>Her attorney claimed she was safe.<\/p>\n<p>No location.<\/p>\n<p>No video appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Only signed documents transmitted electronically.<\/p>\n<p>That suddenly seemed insufficient.<\/p>\n<p>I called Diane.<\/p>\n<p>The number she had used before was disconnected.<\/p>\n<p>I tried again.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaniel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, you don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are locating her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said her attorney spoke for her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen did anyone actually see Diane?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaniel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer attorney claims he met her three days ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe won\u2019t say without protection guarantees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen make him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t work like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nolan\u2019s accusation sat in my head.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca erases them.<\/p>\n<p>What did erase mean?<\/p>\n<p>Kill?<\/p>\n<p>Discredit?<\/p>\n<p>Hide?<\/p>\n<p>Buy?<\/p>\n<p>Relocate?<\/p>\n<p>Diane had already faked one death.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe she had disappeared voluntarily again.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe someone helped.<\/p>\n<p>I went to Chloe\u2019s hospital room after she was discharged.<\/p>\n<p>She was packing clothes.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler stood by the window.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine sat in a chair with arms folded.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody looked happy.<\/p>\n<p>Good.<\/p>\n<p>Happiness would have been inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>I closed the door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you ever meet Rebecca Rourke?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chloe stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyler turned sharply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou told me you only knew Calvin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know who she was then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOctober.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPortland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My pulse changed.<\/p>\n<p>Same city where Rebecca met Tyler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did she call herself?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca Shaw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyler swore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe used another name with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said she worked with debt restructuring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did she offer you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA settlement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Tyler\u2019s lenders?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich she controlled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chloe stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did she want?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe land transfer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDirectly?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she mention Calvin?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNolan?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe warned me he was stealing from Calvin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That meant Rebecca knew Nolan\u2019s double game.<\/p>\n<p>Long before his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you kept dealing with Nolan anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I thought they were all betraying each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you could choose the safest side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Catherine closed her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChloe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop apologizing before you finish telling the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Catherine had learned quickly.<\/p>\n<p>I almost admired it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Rebecca say about Diane?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe\u2019s expression changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe mentioned a Diane once.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter I asked why Samuel stayed loyal to Calvin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did she say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat Samuel had already lost one wife by choosing the wrong side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My skin chilled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExact words?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she say Diane was dead?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did you assume?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat she meant dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Rebecca?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chloe thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. She smiled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That mattered.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca knew Diane had survived.<\/p>\n<p>Likely knew she was alive before anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe helped stage the fake death.<\/p>\n<p>Or helped hide her afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Or something worse.<\/p>\n<p>I called Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>He listened.<\/p>\n<p>Then said, \u201cWe found Diane\u2019s attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou already knew him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. The man calling himself her attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My grip tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCredentials belong to a real attorney in Seattle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe says he has never represented Diane Price.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Someone had been impersonating counsel.<\/p>\n<p>The same pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Fake deputy.<\/p>\n<p>Stolen notary credentials.<\/p>\n<p>Fake attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Access through authority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho was the person speaking to you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re tracing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe knew Diane was alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNolan knows where Diane is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe claims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd fears Rebecca.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen stop waiting for him to negotiate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel almost laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will tell the prosecutors you\u2019ve solved plea bargaining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell them free of charge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He hung up.<\/p>\n<p>Two hours later, Nolan talked.<\/p>\n<p>Not because of me.<\/p>\n<p>Because prosecutors showed him Rebecca\u2019s paused cooperation agreement and made clear she might speak first.<\/p>\n<p>Competition accomplished what conscience would not.<\/p>\n<p>Nolan gave them an address.<\/p>\n<p>Old motel near the Washington border.<\/p>\n<p>Diane had stayed there under another name.<\/p>\n<p>Agents arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Room empty.<\/p>\n<p>But recently occupied.<\/p>\n<p>Food.<\/p>\n<p>Medication.<\/p>\n<p>Clothes.<\/p>\n<p>A laptop charger.<\/p>\n<p>No laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Blood on a towel.<\/p>\n<p>My stomach turned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much blood?\u201d I asked Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmall amount.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInjury?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnknown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSigns of struggle?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere did she go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecurity camera shows her leaving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel paused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A woman.<\/p>\n<p>Blond.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca.<\/p>\n<p>The footage was three days old.<\/p>\n<p>Diane walked beside her willingly.<\/p>\n<p>No visible force.<\/p>\n<p>They entered a car together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t look like kidnapping,\u201d Daniel said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould be cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr coercion nobody can see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened after?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vehicle traveled south.<\/p>\n<p>Lost near an interchange.<\/p>\n<p>Nolan claimed he knew why Rebecca went after Diane.<\/p>\n<p>Documents.<\/p>\n<p>Diane had retained one set of records nobody else possessed.<\/p>\n<p>Not financial ledgers.<\/p>\n<p>Not environmental files.<\/p>\n<p>Personnel files.<\/p>\n<p>Calvin\u2019s leverage archive.<\/p>\n<p>Names of judges.<\/p>\n<p>Officials.<\/p>\n<p>Business owners.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Police.<\/p>\n<p>People compromised through affairs, debt, drugs, tax fraud, family secrets.<\/p>\n<p>The machinery behind the network.<\/p>\n<p>If Diane had that archive, she possessed the map of everyone Calvin or Rebecca could pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca wanted it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe to expose them.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe to inherit the network.<\/p>\n<p>I asked Nolan\u2019s recorded statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel answered, \u201cNolan says inherit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>Calvin built power through secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca designed debt traps.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe divorce had not divided them morally.<\/p>\n<p>Only commercially.<\/p>\n<p>Two executives fighting over an empire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat evidence supports Nolan?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReal?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing verified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do they show?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One message from Rebecca to Nolan three years earlier:<\/p>\n<p>If Calvin falls, clients become mine.<\/p>\n<p>Another:<\/p>\n<p>Debt survives the debtor. Leverage survives the collector.<\/p>\n<p>That sounded less like a whistleblower.<\/p>\n<p>More like succession planning.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler sat beside me while Daniel read.<\/p>\n<p>He looked ill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe did that to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe didn\u2019t care about Dad\u2019s evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe cared because it threatened the structure she used.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo she helped us only because Calvin was in her way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLikely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyler rubbed his face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI keep thinking someone is finally on the good side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no side like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen what do we trust?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not labels.<\/p>\n<p>Not apologies.<\/p>\n<p>Not roles.<\/p>\n<p>Actions.<\/p>\n<p>Diane had copied evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Also processed bribes.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis took money.<\/p>\n<p>Then preserved records.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel betrayed friends.<\/p>\n<p>Then cooperated to save himself.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca exposed Calvin.<\/p>\n<p>Then maybe pursued his power.<\/p>\n<p>People were not sides.<\/p>\n<p>They were choices repeated.<\/p>\n<p>That afternoon, the school district announced temporary closure pending environmental testing.<\/p>\n<p>Parents panicked anyway.<\/p>\n<p>News crews arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Calvin\u2019s name appeared publicly for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>So did Rourke Development.<\/p>\n<p>My company was not named.<\/p>\n<p>Yet.<\/p>\n<p>I knew it would be.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis\u2019s involvement was documented.<\/p>\n<p>My land was central.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler\u2019s fraud would surface eventually.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy had become temporary.<\/p>\n<p>I called my employees.<\/p>\n<p>Not a mass email.<\/p>\n<p>Individual calls.<\/p>\n<p>I told each one federal investigators were reviewing historical transactions involving our company and my late husband.<\/p>\n<p>I told them current operations were legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>I told them if anyone asked questions, tell the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Some sounded frightened.<\/p>\n<p>Some angry.<\/p>\n<p>One cried.<\/p>\n<p>Ray listened from my office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou didn\u2019t have to tell them all today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I\u2019m done letting people learn important facts from someone who wants to use them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He nodded.<\/p>\n<p>That became my rule.<\/p>\n<p>Tell truth before someone buys your silence.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis\u2019s words to Tyler.<\/p>\n<p>Useful for all of us.<\/p>\n<p>Late afternoon, Daniel arrived with another development.<\/p>\n<p>Diane contacted federal investigators directly.<\/p>\n<p>Video this time.<\/p>\n<p>Alive.<\/p>\n<p>Bruised near one temple.<\/p>\n<p>In an unknown room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe says Rebecca attacked her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMotel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut camera showed them leaving together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiane says Rebecca threatened Emily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Again.<\/p>\n<p>Family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did Diane go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo protect her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere\u2019s Emily?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSafe now, according to agents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow did Rebecca threaten her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmployment records and fabricated embezzlement evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fabricated crime.<\/p>\n<p>Same tactic Calvin threatened against Tyler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca learned from Calvin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr taught him,\u201d Daniel said.<\/p>\n<p>That possibility had not occurred to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does Diane want?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProtection for herself and Emily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn exchange?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leverage archive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiane says Rebecca has it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Diane, she arranged to trade copies of financial records for Rebecca\u2019s promise to leave Emily alone.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Took Diane\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Discovered the leverage archive was not on it.<\/p>\n<p>Became violent.<\/p>\n<p>Then forced Diane to travel with her while contacting Emily.<\/p>\n<p>Diane escaped at a gas station when Rebecca stepped away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is Diane now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMissing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow did she get released?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe never left federal custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room went silent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the camera.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot Rebecca.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooks exactly like her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimilar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel handed me a photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Blond woman.<\/p>\n<p>Late forties.<\/p>\n<p>Same height.<\/p>\n<p>Same face shape.<\/p>\n<p>Not Rebecca once you looked carefully.<\/p>\n<p>I did not recognize her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho is she?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaura Rourke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelation?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca\u2019s younger sister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>Another hidden piece.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of the network?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere has she been?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada mostly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did no one mention her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause she wasn\u2019t on our original radar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNolan?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiane?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnew her from years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does Laura do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrivate investigations. Corporate intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That fit too well.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Background files.<\/p>\n<p>Leverage archives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she help build Calvin\u2019s files?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiane says yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen Rebecca wasn\u2019t cleaning loose ends personally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe Laura did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nolan\u2019s statement had compressed the sisters into one threat.<\/p>\n<p>Or intentionally confused them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does Laura want?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u2019s expression tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe archive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiane says Laura has spent years collecting duplicate leverage files independently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I laughed once.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone made copies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat appears to be the culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No trust among thieves.<\/p>\n<p>Just backups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happens if Laura gets the full archive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe could expose dozens of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr control them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is she now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnknown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes she know Calvin is arrested?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill in custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan Rebecca contact Laura?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot directly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContingencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The phone rang.<\/p>\n<p>Mine.<\/p>\n<p>Unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel pointed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeaker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I answered.<\/p>\n<p>A woman\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n<p>Not Rebecca.<\/p>\n<p>Close.<\/p>\n<p>But different.<\/p>\n<p>Laura.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHazel Briggs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou people really need hobbies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand why Dennis liked you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you know him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you want?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiane gave federal agents the wrong archive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel went still.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeaning?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe gave them decoys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is the real one?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, you do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked around my office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cassette recordings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My pulse changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDennis\u2019s tapes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe recorded names.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not just conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe a spoken index.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis hated writing in gloves.<\/p>\n<p>Used tape recorders.<\/p>\n<p>He might have dictated lists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich tape?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou haven\u2019t found it yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you want from me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo find it before Rebecca does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s in custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou still think custody stops Rebecca.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The line went dead.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel looked furious.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at Tyler.<\/p>\n<p>He looked exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>Ray said, \u201cWhere would Dennis hide another tape?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nobody answered.<\/p>\n<p>Then Tyler stared at the old train visible through my office doorway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I followed his gaze.<\/p>\n<p>We had opened the locomotive.<\/p>\n<p>Found the key.<\/p>\n<p>Found one note.<\/p>\n<p>But the train set was larger than the engine.<\/p>\n<p>Cars.<\/p>\n<p>Station.<\/p>\n<p>Transformer.<\/p>\n<p>Track box.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis had not trusted one hiding place.<\/p>\n<p>He had built a trail.<\/p>\n<p>And if Laura was telling the truth, the next piece of evidence had been beneath my Christmas tree the entire time while every side of Calvin\u2019s network fought to find it first.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/?p=14249\">Click here to continue reading: PART 25: We Took Dennis\u2019s Christmas Train Apart Piece by Piece, and the Missing Tape Named the Person Calvin Feared Most<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nolan refused to talk about Rebecca without federal prosecutors present. That alone made Daniel take him seriously. Not believe him. Take him seriously. By the next morning, Rebecca had been &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-every-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14295,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248\/revisions\/14295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}