A Shadow Of Doubt

Three Lincoln Logs Fall

Agent Hyde
I escort Connie to her new residence, my partners know where we are headed from Seattle. We are headed to federal prison in DC. The flight is going to be unbearable with this 19 year old brat. Right now she isn't in cuffs. When we land the arresting officer will be waiting for her. We have everything we need to grab the Lincoln's while preparing for her body to be taken out. It is a bag of pillows, a guard was the one who found the body and identified her. The news was a day later than we did this. But we are in flight. Connie was wearing a police uniform of all things so we could get her out. No one paid attention to us from what I could tell.
Agent Harding
I greet the newest guest at maximum security federal prison. As I lead her to the car I hand cuff and read her her rights. She looks shocked that she is being arrested.
Connie
Wait a minute I was exonerated of all embezzlement charges and even paid back the money and I am supposed to be in witness protection at this point.
Agent Harding
Oh dear you are sadly mistaken you are being arrested for murdering  your adoptive parents. Now get seated, but don't get to comfortable because your cell isn't comfortable. I wave at Agent Hyde who has a few things to do. He has another flight to take heading to New York to deliver some pertinent evidence. I like that we have the murderer of the Rogers in cuffs after we tried to find their killer. We suspected her, but until recently we had only snippets of evidence. It was finding the hidden lab in the house that finally nailed her to the cross. When she gave us the safe deposit box key the designs for the house were in there. I hated the couple weeks killed,but am thrilled to be able to arrest the person who killed them.
Agent Hyde
I chuckle as Harding smiles and waves after putting Connie inside the back of the car. I have to fly into New York to arrest the Lincoln's, all three are going to be served warrants at the same time. We have warrants on all their properties including a couple of shipyards. Agent Stewart, agent Granger and Agent Parker the love of my life, but she doesn't know it yet? She is all work and no play at this point. Colette Parker is definitely one of a kind. She just so happens to be a survivor of the Lincoln's human trafficking. She was a baby and they were trying to negotiate a sale of her when it all went wrong. The Lincoln's didn't show because someone kidnapped Colette from them. They couldn't report her as a missing child because she wasn't theirs. That caused them some problems and they found her later, but at that point no one trusted them to deliver a baby any more. The couple spread the word that they were unreliable. So they were stuck with Colette until she got too curious and they gave her to a couple where she would eventually be placed in foster care. She is exceptionally smart and just passed the Agents test at 18. She actually looks a lot like Connie Rogers. She is still a newbie and was invited to come along as a training experience. I have no doubt she will do wonderfully. She is really happy to be on this assignment and so am I, because of Jacks two boys and they were nearly victims of the Lincoln's as well. After reading up on all the parties involved I think that we are missing something. I decide to look into what Jack told me about Carla having six live births five are accounted for.
Agent Colette Parker
I was raised by foster parents and not always nice ones. I recall the Lincoln's having me after I was left with them by my real mother. I guess she just had babies and dumped them onto the Lincoln's. Somehow I was their only kid and they treated me very badly and so did any of their guest. One day after I saw things that scared me, they dropped me off with other friends and left me there alone with a filthy couple. I knew the Lincoln's last name, but not there first names. I have nightmares about the boy and girl that had tied up and naked in a strange room. It had scary implements and chains in it. They were tied to something I still can't explain. I didn't stay long with the filthy couple, because they ended up arrested and I ended up in the hospital covered in belt marks from their abuse. From that point on I was moved from foster home to foster home. At fourteen my foster parents had somehow passed all the tests to become foster parents. I wished I had heeded the other girls warning and ran the first night I stayed there. She left as soon as the doors were closed on her bedroom she went out the window and tried to get me to join her. That night they sold me to a guy that took my virginity from me violently. They are no longer foster parents and served some time along with the man who raped me. It wasn't enough time if you ask me life for what they did wasn't enough time either. The next one was an elderly lady who tried her best, but her health wasn't the best and I found her dead when I got back from school.
Agent Hyde
Colette are you okay, you seemed to have been deep in thought there?
Agent Parker
Yes, just recalling my childhood is all. I am glad these people are being arrested finally.
Agent Hyde
They should have them behind bars by the time we arrive and we can help get the victims back to their families. A lot will need medical and psychological treatment.