Chapter 266


    Chapter 266 The Evidence Is Found


    The warm water soothed my cramped stomach, and as I regained somefort, I could not help but


    wonder how Jackson had managed to visit me all of a sudden.


    I had heard the case had caused such a media storm that he was barred from touching it, which was


    why the case had been handed off.


    Why was he here now?


    Seeing the confusion written all over my face, he exined, “Your case took a turn. Mr. Young and Mr.


    Yates came forward with some fresh leads. The department’s checking them out now. If everything


    checks out, you’ll be walking free.”


    “Fresh leads?” I echoed, surprised. “What kind of leads?”


    It had been a whole week since I had seen either of them. I had figured their assurances that I would


    not be stuck here long were just talk, so I had not held out hope they would actually dig up any


    evidence.


    Jackson cleared his throat. “Mr. Young found some video footage from around the time Noah was killed


    in the old factory.”


    I scrunched my eyebrows. The ce was deserted, right? How could there be any footage? He tried to


    reassure me. “Take it easy. The footage was not from the factory itself–it turned up in a car Moore used


    to drive.”


    He paused for a few seconds before saying, “I think that’s the car Mr. Young gave to Moore. Remember


    the day Noah kidnapped you? Moore zoomed to the factory in that very car, and it was parked right


    outside. Lucky for us, the ce was a rundown mess–most of the bricks and windows were busted,? 2024 N?v/el/Dram/a.Org.


    which meant the car’s dash cam caught some of the action inside the factory with you three. The car


    was too far to pick up any sound, and a lot of the footage is kind of blurry. We have just handed it over


    to the police to see what they can make of it.”


    I froze, my voice lost. Thest thing I remembered before waking up in that factory was Noah’s


    ambush, and after that, everything was a blur because of the drugs. I had not even thought about what


    was happening outside.


    It took me a second to gather my thoughts, then I turned to Officer Jackson with a frown. “You


    mentioned Mr. Yates had some clues too. What did he have?”


    Just then, a guard came in with some grub. I must have looked like I was about to pass out because


    Officer Jackson did not dive into the details. Instead, he handed me the food and said, “You need to


    eat.”


    The meal was nothing fancy–just a sandwich and some biscuits–but after days without food, it looked


    like a feast to me. I had just sipped some warm water, so I chowed down on the sandwich, eager to fill


    my empty stomach. Officer Jackson was right there, his voice low and soothing, “Easy there, don’t


    rush. You don’t want to choke.”


    The sandwich warmed me from the inside, taking the edge off my hunger. I took a bite of a steamed


    biscuit and looked up at Officer Jackson, “So, what’s the deal with Mr. Yates‘ evidence?”


    He exined, “You know, after you passed out at the factory and Inch whisked you away, it


    was Charlie who called in a doctor for you. This doctor is a big deal back home, a top–notch clinician.


    While he was patching you up, he ran some blood tests and found you were loaded with ether. You


    probably did not catch it, but Charlie’s ce is wired with cameras. Based on the time the cameras


    caught you arriving at Charlie’s, there’s no way you could have been up and about to do anything to


    Noah. The time Noah died and when the drugs hit neatly, so you’re pretty much off the hook for the


    murder. Plus…”


    you line up too


    He paused, then dropped another bombshell, “Charlie’s got this super clear video that shows Moore


    going all psycho.”


    I gasped, “And how on earth did Mr. Yates get his hands on that video?” I only showed up after


    everything went down, and even if they drove there, a car dashcam would not have caught Moore’s


    meltdown.


    Officer Jackson chimed in, “It was from inside the factory.”


    The revtion that the factory was still operational threw me for a loop, “But I thought that ce was a


    goner?”


    He nodded, confirming, “Yeah, the factory has been out of business, but it is Charlie’s property. He has


    been eyeing our neck of the woods for some new energy venture, so he snapped up the factory a while


    back. He says he put cameras in because it was turning into a crash pad for folks with no ce else to


    go. He did not want to be on the hook if anything happened to them there. He didn’t think much of it at


    first, but then it hit him, and he rushed the footage right over.”