Free Finding Amy by Joseph K. Loughlin, Kate Clark Flora

lived more than an hour away in New Hampshire, but a jealous ex-boyfriend known to have been arguing with a missing person could not be ignored.
    Sparrow told them he had spent Saturday evening with friends but that the friends had a small child, so it had been an early evening and he had then returned to Newmarket, New Hampshire, where he was sharing an apartment with two female roommates. Detectives interviewed the couple he had spent the evening with, who confirmed Sparrow's version of the story. They then went to New Hampshire and separately interviewed the two roommates, each of whom confirmed his timeline for late Saturday evening and for Sunday. On the basis of the information they had gathered and the timeline they'd made, they felt they could eliminate Richard Sparrow as a suspect.
    Just as they were checking the details of Eric Rubright's story, another major focus in this early stage of the investigation would be to test Russ Gorman's story by interviewing the residents of the Brighton Avenue apartment and witnesses such as bartenders, doormen, and customers who might have seen him with Amy St. Laurent at Fore Play, the Pavilion, or the Iguana, another Portland bar where police learned that Gorman, Kush Sharma, and Amy St. Laurent had stopped briefly so St. Laurent and Sharma could use the bathroom before driving to the Brighton Avenue apartment.
    On Wednesday, October 24, police reinterviewed Gorman's roommates Jason Cook and Kush Sharma. Sharma's story was essentially the same as Gorman's. He said Gorman had been gone only twenty or twenty-five minutes, then was in for the rest of the night. That he (Sharma) and Jason Cook were sitting on couches watching TV when Gorman returned. That Gorman used the phone and then joined them. Sometime later, the other roommates, Dave Grazier and his fiancée, Dawn Schimrich, returned. Sharma also remembered that Dave Grazier had been at the apartment when Gorman first arrived with Amy, then left to go pick up Dawn.
    Jason Cook reported that he had been the manager at the Iguana bar that evening and had left work at approximately 1:45 a.m., arriving back at the apartment between 1:45 and 2:00 a.m. He arrived as Gorman and Amy St. Laurent were leaving. Gorman introduced St. Laurent, and she wished Cook a happy birthday before she and Gorman left in Gorman's car. Cook told detectives that Gorman returned to the apartment about twenty minutes later. Cook stated that he was on the computer sending an e-mail to his aunt in Florida when Gorman returned and that Gorman came in and asked to use the telephone to call his ex-girlfriend, Jamie. (Gorman was seeking permission to use the phone because he wasn't a rent-paying tenant of the apartment.)
    So far, Gorman's story seemed to be corroborated by his roommates. But both Cook and Sharma had described a lifestyle in which nights spent in bars and clubs followed by drinking at home were the norm and details of one day could easily become confused with events of another. Detectives would take none of this at face value without looking for other ways to confirm the stories. It was a basic part of their investigative process—interview, assess, reinterview, check other sources such as witnesses, tapes, or phone records, corroborating and recorroborating information until they felt it was clear. (For example, they would subpoena many witnesses’ cell phone records for the night Amy disappeared.)
    Next they interviewed the third roommate, David Grazier. Grazier reported that he lived at the Brighton Avenue address with two roommates, Cook and Sharma, and his fiancée, Dawn Schimrich. Recently a friend of Cook and Sharma, Russ Gorman, had been sleeping on their couch. Grazier stated that when he returned from work on Sunday morning between 12:15 and 12:30 a.m., no one was home. He showered and received a call from his fiancée, asking him to pick her up at the Iguana to go to a restaurant called the Station for breakfast. He left