"Jeannie, I'm sorry…!" Robert pleaded. "The hospital gave its report. They showed me everything I have to know. The police also took their word for it. There was nothing I could have done!"
"So where was she? Where is my baby? What did they do to my baby?"
Rhodes wondered about it, too. The county, where the accident happened, didn't release a body. He only knew about this since Kathy looked into it. They were still searching for Joan. The accident was almost a month old. How much evidence could the police recover? What kind of storm would it bring to New Pearson? Which names would that hospital drop to save its hide?
His name better not be one of them.
The two old parents resorted to sobs inside the conference room. Rhodes took out his phone and told Kathy what he saw and heard. The Wester family must have hidden this from their very members.
