“Aside from Horvath? Can’t find one of them. He’s not in the area, wherever he is. The other one is convinced she was a nymphomaniac.”
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“I don’t think we use that term anymore, do we?” Jesse said.
“This guy does, with an accent. He’s an Argentine polo player.”
“When were they married?”
“Nineteen ninety-four, ninety-five,” Kelly Cruz said.
“Divorced?”
“Nineteen ninety-five,” Kelly Cruz said. “Sex life was hurt-ing his game.”
“Tired all the time?”
“That’s what he says.”
“He get a nice settlement?” Jesse asked.
“Yes.”
“You know where he’s been the last couple of months?”
“Playing polo. Every day. In Miami. I checked the papers.
He was there.”
“There’s polo writeups in the papers down there?”
“You know what papers to look in,” Kelly Cruz said.
“Okay. So he’s not a prime suspect.”
“Too bad, I was hoping I’d need to interview him more.”
“Didn’t you say you had kids?”
“I did, but no husband.”
“And rich polo players make notoriously good fathers,”
Jesse said.
“Notoriously,” Kelly Cruz said.
“What you need to do,” Jesse said, “is see if there’s a connection between Ralston and Darnell. And I think you need to pressure the parents. There’s too much going on that we don’t understand.”
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“No more Miss Nice Girl?” Kelly Cruz said.
“Exactly.”
“Okay, I need to do that,” Kelly Cruz said. “What do you need?”
“I need to get a look at their boats,” Jesse said.
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Y ou go on the boat without a warrant,”
Molly said, “nothing you find can be used as evidence.”
“I don’t have enough for a warrant.”
“Not even Judge Gaffney?” Molly said.
Jesse shook his head.
“Marty Reagan says the new DA is very careful.”
“So he won’t even ask,” Molly said.
“Right.”
“So what’s the point of going aboard?”
“Better to know than not know.”
“Even if you can’t use it.”
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“Can’t use it in court,” Jesse said. “But maybe it’ll point me toward something I can use.”
“Be good to know if they’re viable suspects,” Molly said.
“It would,” Jesse said.
“Be good to know if they weren’t viable suspects,” Molly said.
“Also true,” Jesse said.
“So you could start looking someplace else.”
“Um-hm.”
