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estranged father back east and been widowed for about sixmonths.Theymet Sarah’s uncle and her niece,Melissa, and Paul agreed to help find Sarah’s killer.As he drove home, Paul was thinking: How did the kidnappers know he was at theHollywoodBowl?After a forcedmeeting at his homewith the kidnappers, Paulwas left by the side of the road, a police convoy pulled over, and LAPD Capt. BillVose got out of the lead car. “The plot has thickened,” Paul told him. “Did you pass a black SUV as you came up the road? It contained the kidnappers, and another hostage. We are starting this all over again.”


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RIVATE INVESTIGATORPAULMANNINGFOUNDADEADWOMAN in the trunk of a car blocking his in the stack parking lot at the Hollywood Bowl. Once back home, Paul found an envelope with a picture of the person in the trunk, verymuch alive, and a note saying they wanted $1million.The woman turned out to be his sister-in-law’s best friend, Sarah,who had left an


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LANE ALERTTM VEHICLE AND PEDESTRIAN AWARENESS One thingwas certain: If, as Iwas bidden by the kidnappers, I


abandoned the search for the killers ofmy wife’s sister, I would be sleeping on the couch forever. Besides, if they actually took mat- ters into their own hands and wreaked a little vigilante justice on


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the killers, who supposedly killed Sarah by mistake, their hands weren’t clean. None of this would have happened if those yahoos hadn’t kidnapped her in the first place. And nowMelissa’s twin,Mandy, was in their clutches.


What would happen next?Maybe I should call the writers on “GeneralHospital.”Thiswas truly a soap opera.Anything they could write wouldn’t be any crazier than this. Paulo and I met the next morning withMelissa and her


UncleWilliam Smythe-Jones, at their hotel in SantaMonica. The FBI and LAPD where there, too.They all knew about the second kidnapping. It was a rather subdued group.Although I technically didn’twork for him, Smythe-Jones ran themeeting and began issuing instructions,mostly tome. “I received a ransom note this morning here at the hotel.


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They want us to deliver a million dollars to them. I am to col- lect the money and give it to Manning, who will be sent instructions this evening.The note included a postscript. It said to check the top floor of the parking garage at Fourth and Wilshire in SantaMonica.What did theymean by that?” I looked atBill and he grabbed his phone.After a fewqui-


et sentences, he closed the cell and looked around the room. “We’ll know in a few minutes, but does anyone want to guess what we will find? Paul?” I told everyone what happened the previous night at my


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house, the deal the kidnappers thought they made with me to lay off themurder investigation, andmy assumption that there would be a few bodies at the garage, bodies of the people who had actually killed Sarah. My story was met with silence. Bill’s cell rang. He lis-


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tened for amoment, and looked atme and nodded. I had a dilemma – street justice had spoken, and the nim-


rods that had killed Sarah by accidentwere nowhistory. But to my way of thinking, that didn’t let the perps who ordered her kidnapped off the hook for hermurder. Now all I had to do was deliver the money, get Mandy


released, find evidence of the kidnappers’ connection to Sarah’s death, and tie it all up in a nice bow for Bill and the


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