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An account auditor, age 36 years. Average height, brown hair, blue eyes. Apparently good at her job â too good, even. There had been some inconsistency with funds sheâd suspected was embezzlement and turned out to be far more serious. When the job posting went up last week, her social media went dead. The only proof she was still alive was the fact that the site hadnât yet taken the job down.
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The pay was a number Todd didnât like. Enticing enough to catch someoneâs eye for a quick cash grab, not expensive enough for her offense to be against someone actually important. Heâd been hoping to catch a break with the local criminal rings by finding someone alive who could give him good intel, but apparently Felix Vasquez was too low on the food chain to afford the big guns.
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Well, he had to start somewhere.
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Beyond the temptation of all those zeroes, Todd found mercenary sites like this to be a good starting point for his work in a new town. Usually these cases were about rival petty druglords or retired thugs who just wanted to retire in peace, but knew too much to be left alone. People who knew how to survive, and wouldnât talk without serious incentive. Not that he couldnât provide that incentive. But for a whistleblower to just fall in his lap like this was rare. He wasnât about to take an opportunity like this for granted.
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There was one problem though. Besides her disappearance off the grid, which was easily solvable, there was a note on the posting that caught Toddâs eye. It was a promise of extra payment to anyone who could get the names of people sheâd shared information with â and that this information could be extracted from the target by any means necessary. It wasnât like she was going to live to tell the tale. And perhaps with the extra information would come... future employment. Just to make sure all the loose ends were tied off.
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An account auditor, age 36 years. Average height, brown hair, blue eyes. Apparently good at her job â too good, even. There had been some inconsistency with funds sheâd suspected was embezzlement and turned out to be far more serious. When the job posting went up last week, her social media went dead. The only proof she was still alive was the fact that the site hadnât yet taken the job down.
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The pay was a number Todd didnât like. Enticing enough to catch someoneâs eye for a quick cash grab, not expensive enough for her offense to be against someone actually important. Heâd been hoping to catch a break with the local criminal rings by finding someone alive who could give him good intel, but apparently Felix Vasquez was too low on the food chain to afford the big guns.
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Well, he had to start somewhere.
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Beyond the temptation of all those zeroes, Todd found mercenary sites like this to be a good starting point for his work in a new town. Usually these cases were about rival petty druglords or retired thugs who just wanted to retire in peace, but knew too much to be left alone. People who knew how to survive, and wouldnât talk without serious incentive. Not that he couldnât provide that incentive. But for a whistleblower to just fall in his lap like this was rare. He wasnât about to take an opportunity like this for granted.
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There was one problem though. Besides her disappearance off the grid, which was easily solvable, there was a note on the posting that caught Toddâs eye. It was a promise of extra payment to anyone who could get the names of people sheâd shared information with â and that this information could be extracted from the target by any means necessary. It wasnât like she was going to live to tell the tale. And perhaps with the extra information would come... future employment. Just to make sure all the loose ends were tied off.
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Todd took his non-darkweb searches to the local library. Her social media might be dead now, but up until a week ago it had been active enough to give someone with limited resources to put the context clues together into a bread crumb trail. She didnât look like sheâd ever expected to have to vanish off the map. With her home address â or at least, apartment complex and number visible in some of her photos â and the knowledge that (like him) she was currently unemployed, he did a quick search for cheap hotels in a twenty-block radius of her apartment. That turned up two possibilities.
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What genuinely puzzled him was that she was still alive â or at least, whoever had killed her hadnât yet cashed in on the reward. She was playing it as smart as she could, given her circumstances. It helped that she seemed to get all her social interaction through Facebook and Instagram, too. None of the photos heâd seen seemed to have a significant other whoâd be interested in looking for her. Her friends looked like they were from work â and they didnât look like the type to risk dying if she went to them for help. She was alone with limited resources.
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In her situation, Todd wouldâve just skipped town by now, but most people would want a destination in mind. He checked for her family. Parents with different last names, probably divorced and possibly remarried, but they were in different suburbs of Pittsburgh. He wrote that off, however. Even if Amy didnât think that her parents might end up as collateral, itâd be the predictable thing to do.
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So Todd got into his Malibu and drove by both hotels, eyes open for a white Kia Soul. Apparently sheâd thought taking the plates off and parking a block away in a free public lot would make a difference. Heâd parked his own car and made sure to walk past, picking up whispers of her scent as he did so, but took the time to walk to a nearby cafe and watch the lot with a piping cup of black coffee and cigarette, just to see if he noticed anyone else taking the same route.
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Maybe she was just trying to buy time to make a better plan. Or maybe she was just waiting for this all to blow over. Or, much more likely, she was panicking, and that meant that she wasnât going to be thinking clearly when someone decided to move.
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As things stood he couldnât rationalize why nobody had finished the job already. Aside from the job being laughably easy, there had to be some reason for hesitation on the part of the competitive market. Was it the suspicion that these obvious crumbs might be planted, meant to throw people off the trail? Was it the over-and-above levels of violence the client seemed to want, the prospect of a proper interrogation? Maybe because the job looked entry-level, those whoâd take it were being overly cautious about it. Todd had the benefit of experience to get as much research and speculation as he had done in a day, on top of his job hunting and little coffee break here.
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That being said, he wasnât going to risk losing his information now. She would be desperate, sure, but that also meant sheâd be desperate for help. Sheâd need someone to trust, and he would have to play on that. Nightfall would see him ready to act in the old mask-and-coat getup. As heâd been thinking â this should be a cakewalk. He just had to get there before someone else realized the same thing.
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What genuinely puzzled him was that she was still alive â or at least, whoever had killed her hadnât yet cashed in on the reward. She was playing it as smart as she could, given her circumstances. It helped that she seemed to get all her social interaction through Facebook and Instagram, too. None of the photos heâd seen seemed to have a significant other whoâd be interested in looking for her. Her friends looked like they were from work â and they didnât look like the type to risk dying if she went to them for help. She was alone with limited resources.
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In her situation, Todd wouldâve just skipped town by now, but most people would want a destination in mind. He checked for her family. Parents with different last names, probably divorced and possibly remarried, but they were in different suburbs of Pittsburgh. He wrote that off, however. Even if Amy didnât think that her parents might end up as collateral, itâd be the predictable thing to do.
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So Todd got into his Malibu and drove by both hotels, eyes open for a white Kia Soul. Apparently sheâd thought taking the plates off and parking a block away in a free public lot would make a difference. Heâd parked his own car and made sure to walk past, picking up whispers of her scent as he did so, but took the time to walk to a nearby cafe and watch the lot with a piping cup of black coffee and cigarette, just to see if he noticed anyone else taking the same route.
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Maybe she was just trying to buy time to make a better plan. Or maybe she was just waiting for this all to blow over. Or, much more likely, she was panicking, and that meant that she wasnât going to be thinking clearly when someone decided to move.
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As things stood he couldnât rationalize why nobody had finished the job already. Aside from the job being laughably easy, there had to be some reason for hesitation on the part of the competitive market. Was it the suspicion that these obvious crumbs might be planted, meant to throw people off the trail? Was it the over-and-above levels of violence the client seemed to want, the prospect of a proper interrogation? Maybe because the job looked entry-level, those whoâd take it were being overly cautious about it. Todd had the benefit of experience to get as much research and speculation as he had done in a day, on top of his job hunting and little coffee break here.
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That being said, he wasnât going to risk losing his information now. She would be desperate, sure, but that also meant sheâd be desperate for help. Sheâd need someone to trust, and he would have to play on that. Nightfall would see him ready to act in the old mask-and-coat getup. As heâd been thinking â this should be a cakewalk. He just had to get there before someone else realized the same thing.
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