CHAPTER 115

CARMEN

“Good morning, Mrs. Hayes,” Detective Johnson greeted as I sat in the room where they were about to play the new footage for me to identify the people in the video as who I thought they were.

“Good morning,” I replied, not only anxious about what I was about to watch but abashed at the fact that he now knew that I was also involved in a murder case of my own.

There was not much talking involved. He played the footage as soon as possible, and it was clearer this time and from a different angle.

“Are these still the people you suspect them to be? We can see that Jasper Hayes really did push his mother off the bridge, but the woman. Is that Kate?” he asked me.

“I have never been surer of anything else in my life. The woman who hit her on the head with a rock is Kate,” I confirmed, nodding my head.

“Now, we want you to take another look at this footage of them that we got from a grocery store just down by the river,” he said, using a remote to switch the clip.

My eyes almost popped