Free Mystery: The Coming Back: (Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Suspense Thriller Mystery) by James Kipling Page B

every single discrepancy in his behavior and words.”
    “Okay, I will give you the rest of the files, but…” the detective smiled. “You have to promise me that you will come with me to dinner.”
    “Is this blackmail?” Lydia laughed.
    “You can call it whatever you want, but I will be very glad to have dinner with you.”
    “Okay, I would like that too,” Lydia smiled at him.
    Wilson stood up from behind his desk and took a few files from the nearest shelf. “Here is everything I have about the case of Stanley Douglass. The notes are ten years old, but I am sure you will find something important that could help you with your sessions.”
 
     
     
     

Chapter 19
    They made plans to meet for dinner and Lydia took the files home to look them over. She read them carefully, taking notes and underlying the important facts.
    The police specialists had worked for months on the case, but all the efforts had been fruitless. According to their findings, Stanley and his car were nowhere to be found, and there was nothing unusual that could be connected to him. There had not been any accidents or deaths in the area during that time. His body was not recovered in the morgue and the car was not found anywhere.
    The only strange thing that they found was that there was no-one seeing Stanley after he had left his friend, Tim. On the recovered footage from the cameras could clearly be seen people walking around, doing their job and multiple cars coming and going. Nothing in their behavior suggested they were part of a kidnapping or murder and the police had nothing to take into consideration.
    “I think,” Wilson had said, after they had gone through the reports together. “That Stanley disappeared on the highway, leading to his house.”
    “Yes...” Lydia had agreed, but Wilson could see that something was troubling her.
    “What is it, doctor? You know that you can tell me anything, right?”
    “Yes...” Lydia had repeated in the same voice. “This whole thing... it was done by someone, who can move unnoticed... who knew his way around here.”
    “Yes, we know that. But, what is troubling you?” Wilson dismissed her comment. “I know that the whole thing seems very mysterious, but I am sure that we would be able to find a very logical explanation with time.”
    “Yes, I also hope that we would,” Lydia had agreed.
    The highway ran for several miles nearby some thick and ancient woods, with multiple dirt roads leading deep inside the woods. Lydia could see that the police had examined all of them several times. They had even hired some professional hunters to canvas the place with their dogs, as the police dogs had found nothing.
    Around midday, after eating a sandwich for lunch, Lydia sat down in front of the TV and watched some of the local channels. Unsurprisingly, Stanley’s case had made noise for only a week and now was as good as forgotten. They had announced his coming back, by putting an old high school photo on the news. Now, no one was speaking about him, and Lydia was glad that the journalist left them alone.
    Lydia had listened carefully to everything Wilson had to tell her, and once again wondered what were they missing.
    “What about now? What do you think, we would find now?” Lydia had asked him.
    “Everything and nothing,” Wilson had smiled sadly. “I really hope to find out the truth, but I also accept the fact that we may never know the whole truth.”
    “That must be very difficult for you. I became a psychiatrist because I wanted to help people. What about you, why did you become a policeman?”
    “My parents wanted something different for their children and when my brother and I grew up and needed to go to school, we all left our home town. It was difficult for all of us, but my father wanted to give us the possibility to choose for ourselves. And I chose to become a policeman, so that I can do as much good in my life, as possible.”
    “But why?” Lydia insisted.
    “I don’t