{"id":12463,"date":"2026-09-17T16:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=12463"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:21:06","slug":"part-5-the-recorder-from-unit-314-captured-rebeccas-voice-and-one-sentence-changed-what-we-thought-happened-the-night-she-vanished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=12463","title":{"rendered":"PART 5 \u2013 The Recorder From Unit 314 Captured Rebecca\u2019s Voice, and One Sentence Changed What We Thought Happened the Night She Vanished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officer Ramirez would not let me touch the recorder.<\/p>\n<p>She set it on the kitchen table inside a clear evidence sleeve while another officer photographed the cracked basement window, the brick, and the note tied around it. Noah sat beside me with his knees drawn against his chest. Tyler had stopped asking questions. He simply watched the adults, studying our faces for clues about how afraid he was supposed to be.<\/p>\n<p>The digital recorder looked absurdly ordinary.<\/p>\n<p>Black plastic. Scratched corners. A strip of old adhesive along the back where it had been fixed beneath the storage-unit shelf.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen years of fear had apparently fit inside something smaller than my hand.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez received confirmation from the officer at Lakeview Storage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are seventeen audio files.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmily\u2019s?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome appear recent. Others are much older.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow old?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re checking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noah stared at the recorder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs Mom on there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first file was dated three weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Emily\u2019s voice filled my kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Calm.<\/p>\n<p>Too calm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Sarah is hearing this, then I either lost control of the situation or Mark discovered I was investigating Rebecca Collins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing my sister after that frantic telephone call felt almost unbearable.<\/p>\n<p>Emily continued.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that she had discovered the name Rebecca accidentally while sorting old tax papers. Mark had hidden a property document beneath a false bottom in a desk drawer. The name on it was Mark Holland.<\/p>\n<p>At first Emily assumed it belonged to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Then she searched public records.<\/p>\n<p>Marriage license.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Collins.<\/p>\n<p>Missing-person report.<\/p>\n<p>The dates matched a period Mark had always described as \u201cthe worst year of his life,\u201d though he had never explained why.<\/p>\n<p>Emily\u2019s recorded voice tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I asked Mark whether he had ever been married before me, he said no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez took notes.<\/p>\n<p>The next file had been recorded two days later.<\/p>\n<p>Emily described finding old financial statements showing that Rebecca\u2019s money had been transferred after she vanished.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the transactions carried signatures.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Except Rebecca was already missing.<\/p>\n<p>Emily had paid a handwriting examiner privately.<\/p>\n<p>The signatures were forged.<\/p>\n<p>My hands went cold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had proof.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvidence, at least.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The third recording contained something worse.<\/p>\n<p>Emily said she had contacted a retired clerk from the sheriff\u2019s department who remembered Rebecca\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p>The clerk had said the original file had been unusually thin.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs missing.<\/p>\n<p>Interview notes missing.<\/p>\n<p>A property inventory absent.<\/p>\n<p>One name had appeared repeatedly in an early draft report before disappearing from the official copy.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Robert Foster.<\/p>\n<p>Across the street, Robert\u2019s house remained dark.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez immediately requested another unit watch the property.<\/p>\n<p>Then the officer handling the recorder stopped playback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s an older file.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow old?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looked at us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAugust 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nobody spoke.<\/p>\n<p>He pressed play.<\/p>\n<p>Static.<\/p>\n<p>Wind.<\/p>\n<p>A woman breathing fast.<\/p>\n<p>Then a voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anybody finds this, my name is Rebecca Collins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noah moved closer to me.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca sounded younger than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>Not because of her age.<\/p>\n<p>Because fear stripped years out of her voice.<\/p>\n<p>She said Mark had discovered she intended to leave him.<\/p>\n<p>She had found financial records connected to stolen investments and fraudulent loans.<\/p>\n<p>Mark had used identities belonging to clients from the small accounting office where he worked.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca had threatened to report him.<\/p>\n<p>Then he had threatened her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told Robert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room went still.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca explained that Deputy Foster had seemed sympathetic.<\/p>\n<p>He told her he could help.<\/p>\n<p>He advised her not to file anything officially until he gathered evidence.<\/p>\n<p>She trusted him.<\/p>\n<p>For three weeks, she secretly gave Robert copies.<\/p>\n<p>Bank records.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Recordings.<\/p>\n<p>Then she discovered Robert was warning Mark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobert didn\u2019t protect me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca\u2019s voice broke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe protected him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyler whispered, \u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The recording answered him moments later.<\/p>\n<p>Money.<\/p>\n<p>Mark paid Robert to destroy reports and steer inquiries away from him.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca had photographed one exchange.<\/p>\n<p>That photograph was almost certainly the image anonymously sent to my phone.<\/p>\n<p>But Rebecca had made additional copies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI put everything somewhere Mark won\u2019t look.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The audio crackled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf something happens to me, the numbers are three, seventeen, eight, twenty-six.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My head snapped toward Noah\u2019s toy truck upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>The same numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez leaned forward.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey aren\u2019t the location. They tell you how to find it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then a car door slammed in the recording.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca stopped speaking.<\/p>\n<p>A male voice sounded in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>Mark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She whispered one final sentence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe found me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The recording ended.<\/p>\n<p>For several seconds nobody moved.<\/p>\n<p>Noah pressed his face against my arm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Dad hurt her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I could not answer that question honestly without frightening him further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to find out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another officer came through the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>They had identified the stranger captured near Robert\u2019s property.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Mercer.<\/p>\n<p>Former private investigator.<\/p>\n<p>His license had lapsed years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>He had done contract work for Robert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs he talking?\u201d Ramirez asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was he doing here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe claims Foster hired him to watch the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My skin prickled.<\/p>\n<p>Mark had not simply arrived because Noah was staying with me.<\/p>\n<p>We had been watched.<\/p>\n<p>The officer added another detail.<\/p>\n<p>Mercer carried two phones.<\/p>\n<p>One contained photographs of my family.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler leaving soccer practice.<\/p>\n<p>Me buying groceries.<\/p>\n<p>Noah in the backyard.<\/p>\n<p>My mother boarding the airport shuttle before her cruise.<\/p>\n<p>I felt something inside me harden.<\/p>\n<p>Fear had made me reactive.<\/p>\n<p>Those photographs made me angry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are Robert and Mark?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still looking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about Emily?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo confirmed location yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to scream.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I asked to hear the next file.<\/p>\n<p>It was Rebecca again.<\/p>\n<p>Recorded the same night but later.<\/p>\n<p>This time there was no wind.<\/p>\n<p>Only a humming sound.<\/p>\n<p>Like fluorescent lights.<\/p>\n<p>Her breathing was labored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got away for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She whispered that Mark had confronted her at Pine Ridge.<\/p>\n<p>Robert had been there.<\/p>\n<p>She believed both men intended to frighten her into silence.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca ran.<\/p>\n<p>She reached an old maintenance building near the trail.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, she hid the recorder.<\/p>\n<p>Then she said something I had not expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez frowned.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca explained why.<\/p>\n<p>Robert had already proven that at least one officer could not be trusted.<\/p>\n<p>Instead she planned to go to her cousin, Elaine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has the key to the red door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I felt my heart stop.<\/p>\n<p>Red door.<\/p>\n<p>Noah looked up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe workshop?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>But Dad had not known Rebecca.<\/p>\n<p>At least I thought he had not.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Elaine reaches me first, everything goes to her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then another line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Mark reaches me first, she knows what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The file ended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho is Elaine?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>A records search began immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Collins had a cousin named Elaine Porter.<\/p>\n<p>Current status unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Last known address: Millbrook.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty miles north.<\/p>\n<p>Then the officer checking historical records looked up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElaine Porter died in 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hope vanished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamily?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cName?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He turned the screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmily Porter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The officer blinked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sister is Emily Carter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Different woman.<\/p>\n<p>Different family.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>Probably.<\/p>\n<p>But something bothered me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was Elaine\u2019s daughter\u2019s middle name?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He checked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily Rebecca Porter.<\/p>\n<p>Not my sister.<\/p>\n<p>I exhaled.<\/p>\n<p>Then Ramirez said, \u201cFind her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next older recording was damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Fragments only.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca saying \u201clocker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another voice.<\/p>\n<p>Numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Metal scraping.<\/p>\n<p>Then something that sounded like a train horn.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler spoke quietly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEight twenty-six.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pointed toward the recorder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree and seventeen could be letters too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>C.<\/p>\n<p>Q.<\/p>\n<p>That led nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if they\u2019re pages?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPage three, line seventeen, word eight, word twenty-six?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>But what text?<\/p>\n<p>Noah suddenly slid off the chair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom had a book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat book?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one she kept taking from Dad\u2019s shelf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich one?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDescribe it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyler said, \u201cThat helps a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I gave him a look.<\/p>\n<p>Noah ignored him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt had a train on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The damaged recording.<\/p>\n<p>Train horn.<\/p>\n<p>A green book with a train.<\/p>\n<p>Mark\u2019s shelf.<\/p>\n<p>Something Rebecca had left behind?<\/p>\n<p>I asked Noah where the book was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark and Emily\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez immediately objected to anyone entering without proper authorization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can get a warrant based on what we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow long?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every minute felt dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Emily was missing.<\/p>\n<p>Mark was free.<\/p>\n<p>Robert was gone.<\/p>\n<p>And somewhere in their house might be a decoding key Rebecca had planted fourteen years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The officer monitoring communications entered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got a hit on Foster\u2019s vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCounty road twelve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>That road led toward Lake Mason.<\/p>\n<p>Toward Dad\u2019s workshop.<\/p>\n<p>The red door.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez was already moving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou stay here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSarah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Robert is going there because he knows what it means\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are not trained for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my father\u2019s property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that changes nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She was right.<\/p>\n<p>I hated that she was right.<\/p>\n<p>Police units were dispatched.<\/p>\n<p>Then Noah tugged my sleeve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom said there was something behind Grandpa\u2019s fish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked down at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat fish?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big one on the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dad had mounted a ridiculous fiberglass bass inside the workshop years ago.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed it was inspirational.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler had always mocked it.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the fish.<\/p>\n<p>I called Ramirez back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a hiding place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know. Noah says Emily mentioned something behind Dad\u2019s mounted fish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She relayed it.<\/p>\n<p>Officers reached the property twelve minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>The red workshop door stood open.<\/p>\n<p>Robert\u2019s vehicle was parked nearby.<\/p>\n<p>No Robert.<\/p>\n<p>No Mark.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, the mounted bass had been torn from the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Behind it was a rectangular cavity.<\/p>\n<p>Empty.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever had been hidden there was gone.<\/p>\n<p>But officers found blood on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh blood.<\/p>\n<p>Not much.<\/p>\n<p>Drops leading toward the back exit.<\/p>\n<p>Then they found a phone.<\/p>\n<p>Emily\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n<p>The screen was cracked.<\/p>\n<p>Her case was stained dark at one corner.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped breathing.<\/p>\n<p>Noah stared at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened to Mom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I knelt in front of him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was the hardest truth I had spoken all night.<\/p>\n<p>The police searched the property.<\/p>\n<p>No Emily.<\/p>\n<p>No Robert.<\/p>\n<p>No Mark.<\/p>\n<p>Then an officer found tire tracks behind the workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Two vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>One had arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Another had left.<\/p>\n<p>Near the tracks lay a torn piece of blue fabric.<\/p>\n<p>Emily owned a blue jacket.<\/p>\n<p>I had seen her wear it dozens of times.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez refused to let me identify fabric through a photograph, but I knew.<\/p>\n<p>At 11:43 p.m., seventeen minutes before the deadline on the brick note, my phone rang again.<\/p>\n<p>Blocked number.<\/p>\n<p>I answered on speaker.<\/p>\n<p>No voice.<\/p>\n<p>Only breathing.<\/p>\n<p>Then Emily whispered, \u201cSarah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noah jumped up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily gasped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs Noah there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPut him somewhere he can\u2019t hear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I handed Tyler my tablet and told him to take Noah upstairs with an officer.<\/p>\n<p>Noah resisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want Mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo with Tyler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Something in my face convinced him.<\/p>\n<p>When they were gone, I returned to the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou called before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Mark?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmily?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t Mark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My skin tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez leaned closer.<\/p>\n<p>Emily continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe found me before Mark did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened at Dad\u2019s workshop?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe took me there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wanted what Rebecca hid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you give it to him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A faint laugh escaped her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe thinks I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was behind the fish?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA key.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca\u2019s locker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCentral Station.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The train.<\/p>\n<p>Everything clicked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do the numbers mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily started answering.<\/p>\n<p>Then a voice spoke in the background.<\/p>\n<p>Male.<\/p>\n<p>Close.<\/p>\n<p>Emily inhaled sharply.<\/p>\n<p>The line went dead.<\/p>\n<p>We called back.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez looked at the clock.<\/p>\n<p>11:47.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen minutes until midnight.<\/p>\n<p>I stared at the recorder.<\/p>\n<p>At Rebecca\u2019s coded numbers.<\/p>\n<p>At the abandoned phone found in Dad\u2019s workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Then Tyler came downstairs carrying Noah\u2019s red toy truck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s something written inside the wheel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He handed it to me.<\/p>\n<p>I removed the loose wheel.<\/p>\n<p>Along the inner rim, in tiny black letters, Emily had written four words.<\/p>\n<p>CENTRAL STATION.<\/p>\n<p>LOCKER.<\/p>\n<p>MARCH SEVENTEEN.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at Ramirez.<\/p>\n<p>Three.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen.<\/p>\n<p>March 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about eight and twenty-six?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noah appeared behind Tyler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wiped his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom said eight twenty-six wasn\u2019t a date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8:26.<\/p>\n<p>A train departure.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez grabbed her radio.<\/p>\n<p>Central Station was forty minutes away.<\/p>\n<p>The last northbound train departed at 8:26 every evening.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca\u2019s numbers did not identify the locker.<\/p>\n<p>They identified a route.<\/p>\n<p>March 17.<\/p>\n<p>8:26.<\/p>\n<p>A historical train schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen years earlier, one train had left Central Station at exactly 8:26 p.m. on March 17.<\/p>\n<p>Its destination was Millbrook.<\/p>\n<p>Where Rebecca\u2019s cousin Elaine had lived.<\/p>\n<p>The code pointed toward Elaine.<\/p>\n<p>But Elaine was dead.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered the red-door recording.<\/p>\n<p>Elaine had the key.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe her daughter inherited what Rebecca left behind.<\/p>\n<p>Police pulled up Elaine\u2019s daughter\u2019s current address.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Rebecca Porter lived less than two miles from Central Station.<\/p>\n<p>The same moment her address appeared, another officer spoke over the radio.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Foster\u2019s car had been found abandoned three blocks from her apartment.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=12464\">Click here to continue reading: PART 6: Elaine\u2019s Daughter Had Kept Rebecca\u2019s Final Package for Years, but Mark Reached Her Building Minutes Before the Police Did<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officer Ramirez would not let me touch the recorder. 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