Lawman With A Cause. Delores Fossen

right to go to Leeroy with any of this.

      She opened the computer files where she’d had some crossover with Christian and passed the laptop to Egan. “Like I said, I do death penalty reviews. Just to make sure corners weren’t cut, etc. And those are the two cases I flagged. Both were arrests that Christian made.”

      Egan immediately began to read through them. “What made you suspicious about them?”

      Jordan hoped this didn’t make her sound foolish. “Gut feeling. Christian was the only officer on scene for both arrests. Both of the prisoners claimed he set them up. I know, a lot of people in prison insist that happened,” she added. “But this just felt like something I should look at a little closer.”

      Egan lifted his head and made eye contact with her. “And Christian knows about these closer looks?”

      She nodded. “I think he’d like for me to back off, but that, of course, only makes me want to dig deeper.”

      Egan made another of those sounds of agreement and went back to reading the file. The reading, though, came to an abrupt halt, and she saw him go stiff. “Christian was supposed to be one of the officers on scene the night Shanna was murdered.”