Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Soon, lawyer Lindsey Dole arrived at the house, and with her was the owner of the law firm, Bobby Donnell. Donnell was more experienced and compassionate with criminal cases, and Ronald asked him to help through Lindsay.

He called Ronald and Diane's father Burt aside and said, "According to the legal process, Diane has been missing for less than three hours, and theoretically it cannot be filed as a disappearance. You have not received any extortion calls from anyone, nor have you kidnapped. invalid."

Ronald and Burt looked at each other and said to Lawyer Donnell, "If it was the kidnapper, would he call Burt?"

"It's possible that Diane Lane is a child star who has made several blockbuster movies. If it was really targeting her, the kidnappers may have done a background check and knew that she was temporarily staying at your aunt's house."

"I'll be right back," Burt said before leaving.

"Wait a minute, Rudy, the partner of my teacher's law firm, will arrive immediately. He is the representative lawyer of NYPD and has a lot of connections in the department. You go with the police officers he brought and transfer the phone to your house. , in order to set up the tracking device."

Ronald felt that Rudy's name was familiar, and when the real person arrived, it was the other lawyer who represented the NYPD and negotiated a settlement plan that detained him without procedure.

"Hello, Rudy. See you again." Ronald greeted him with a handshake.

Rudy is a thirty-something, very capable lawyer. He looked like an Italian, similar to Al Pacino who played Michael in The Godfather, only a little thinner than him, and his ears were a little bit windy.

Rudy nodded and introduced a middle-aged man who came, "This is the... Inspector from the South District of Manhattan, he will be in charge of the disappearance of Diane Lane."

Although not quite in line with the reporting procedures, Ronald has a good relationship with the NYPD's southern Manhattan district, and the patrol officers often drink free coffee in their leg warmer shop. Coupled with Rudy's help, a detective was dispatched to take charge.

The Detective had the technical team start monitoring the phone at Aunt Ronald's home, Karen, and then chatted with Rudy for a while before taking over the investigation here.

Rudy was very busy, so he told Inspector Lei to leave after a few words. Bobby Donnell and attorney Lindsey Dole also left, and agreed to call them again if needed.

"Do your daughter Diane have any enemies with you?" the inspector asked Diane's father, Bert.

"No, I'm just a humanities lecturer at the City University of New York. I've worked as an acting coach before, and I've driven a taxi. I don't have any enemies. My daughter is just an actress, and I don't have any enemies."

"What about you? Do you have any enemies?" the Inspector asked Ronald again. "Diane lives at your house, and you have a cousin of her age. Maybe the kidnappers were wrong."

"Oh my God." Aunt Karen, who heard it next to her, exclaimed.

Ronald motioned her to take it easy, then said to the inspector:

"Against me? I don't have any enemies, maybe only the two extremists who were vegetarians last time."

The inspector nodded and instructed his subordinates, "This is also a clue to follow up to see if the people of 'God's children' have recent entry records." Then he turned his head and said to the crowd:

"We'll send technicians to install phone tracking devices in your home and at Diane's father's home. My team has gone to Diane's high school, and the electronics store she goes to ask if any witnesses saw her.

The situation is not very clear now, there is no need to be nervous. Maybe just went to a party at a friend's house and forgot the time. "

"No, Diane promised to buy a present for Ronald. She won't go to someone else's place halfway." Donna argued for her friend next to her.

The inspector shrugged. Teenagers, often thinking about where to go out of line,

NYPD receives dozens of such oolong reports every day.

If it wasn't for Rudy's transition from the liberal wing of the Donkey Party to the Elephant Party, and his connections to the Elephant Party, he would have become the third-in-command of the Ministry of Justice - the Deputy Attorney General, and the NYPD would have ignored this case. This time, the NYPD wanted to sell Rudy a favor, so he sent him to investigate.

Although Diane Lane is a child star, he has also seen child stars who are often off-line, which is not uncommon in America. Almost every year, a child actor makes the front page of an entertainment newspaper because of a scandal.

However, the detectives sent to the school talked with Diane's teachers and classmates and found nothing unusual. Di An said goodbye to her classmates normally, and said she was going to the electronics store to buy things.

Diane usually just likes parties, and she doesn't have any outstanding performance. On the contrary, her classmates think that she has no pretence as a movie actress, but she gets along well with her, at least she has no enemies in the school.

This is not good news. The disappearance is more and more like a kidnapping.

By nine o'clock in the evening, Burt had been escorted by the police to Aunt Karen's house, and the telephone line had been set up, and so far he had not received any news calls from anyone.

"Ring, ringing, ringing..." The phone rang. Everyone held their breath and stared at the phone.

The technician waved his hand, indicating that it was his own internal phone, and handed the microphone to the inspector.

The detective finally called: "...Very good, you can ask in the surrounding shops if anyone has seen them later... You continue to pursue this clue."

The inspector put down the phone and told Ronald and the others that it was his team who found the clerk who remembered Diane in the electronics store.

The clerk said that after buying the latest version of the software, Diane Lane talked to a middle-aged woman when she went out. It seemed that the two of them had quarreled loudly.

But the clerk was serving other customers and didn't pay attention to what Diane said. In the end, she and the middle-aged woman left peacefully without noticing the violence.

This was an important clue, and the detective immediately arranged for his subordinates to go to the railway station and long-distance bus station to check whether Diane had any travel records, and whether anyone had seen her. The subordinate asked Aunt Karen for a copy of Diane's photo and went to copy it.

Everyone waited anxiously for another hour. Then came the call again.

"Hmm, have you found the flight information? Well, ask the airline for a list of passengers before and after the victim." The detective hung up the phone.

"Diane bought the first plane ticket to Atlanta. Did she know anyone in Atlanta?" Inspector asked Burt.

"Atlanta?" Burt thought for a while. "I don't remember who was there."

"Then what old acquaintance did she contact recently? Or what new friend did she meet?"

"Diane's mother, Colleen Farrington, has been in touch with her again recently, but Colleen is from New Mexico, and she and I have been living in New Jersey since our divorce," Burt replied, looking at Ronald.

Ronald called Donna out and asked her what new friends Diane had made recently.

"No, she has always been popular in high school, and all her classmates know her. Usually, she likes to go to parties or chat with me."

"Well, Diane went out of New York to Georgia, and now this matter is no longer a case in New York State. We suspect that Diane was forced or coerced to buy a plane ticket to Atlanta. I will contact the FBI immediately about this matter. They will take over the headquarters in New York and form a joint task force with us."

"Oh, my God." Aunt Karen heard this, worried about Diane, and felt that she had failed to take care of her. She was ashamed of Bert and cried. Ronald hurried to comfort her.

Bert was also sitting on the sofa, mumbling to himself, "Atlanta, Atlanta..."

It was a sleepless night for the Ronald family.

Before noon the next day, Claire, an agent at the FBI's New York headquarters, came to Ronald's house with several agents wearing FBI vests.

Ronald saw his acquaintance Claire and hurriedly greeted her. At that time, the FBI suspected her serial killer, but Claire saw the flaw and let herself go.

At this time, Claire had been promoted from special agent to senior special agent. She handled cases calmly and was good at analysis. Before, she went to the electronics store where Diane bought software, and asked the clerk on duty again, and found some details.

Diane was stopped by a middle-aged woman at the door of the store after buying the software. Before the two quarreled, there had been a period of normal conversation, which indicated that Diane knew the middle-aged woman.

Moreover, Diane is a 15-year-old young woman. Although she does not know whether the other party is cooperating with other personnel, even if her strength is lost, her ability to shout for help in public places such as shops and airports will not be lost.

And this middle-aged woman is unlikely to meet Diane on the street. It's more likely that he was ambushed at the school, then followed her to the store and took Diane away from school. Avoid being seen by acquaintances such as classmates and teachers, and leave a traceable portrait.

Coupled with the fact that Diane bought the ticket in her own name, someone at the ticket counter should probably remember something unusual if coerced. Diane also had a few chances to call for help, but none of that happened.

Taken together, it is very likely that this middle-aged woman is someone Diane is familiar with, and the biggest suspect is her mother.

Ronald remembered hearing from Donna that when Diane was filming in Canada, her mother went to visit the class with her new boyfriend and hoped that Diane would come with her. So I asked Bert if that was the case.

"Yes, her boyfriend was with her, and saw the news that Diane's crew was starting on the daily variety show, and then went to the Canadian studio to contact her secretly and wanted to take her away. After I found out, I had a big fight with her. One."

"What's her boyfriend's name? Where is he from?" Claire grasped the point.

"I only heard Colleen call him Lawrence, I don't know where he is, with a southern accent." Burt said after recalling.

"Send an investigation notice to the Atlanta branch in Georgia. Then investigate whether there are passengers named Colleen and Lawrence on the same flight." FBI Agent Claire ordered the FBI and NYPD joint task force.

By noon, there was no news, and the person who took Di An away did not call. Ronald looked at Bert and Aunt Karen and the others, and couldn't hold it any longer.

After discussing with Agent Claire, he sent his aunt and Donna back to his apartment to rest. Then he went back to his place and gave Bert a blanket to rest.

Two more hours later, the FBI agents who went to the airport to investigate brought back news that there was no one named Colleen or Lawrence on the flight. More importantly, after contacting the Atlanta airport, it was confirmed that Diane did not get on the plane, and that the ticket was just a false shot.

What a cunning criminal.

Claire felt the difficulty of the child star case. If it could not be handled properly, it would soon be smelled by the news media. If it was published, it would be very detrimental to Diane's safety.

Detective Claire asked his subordinates to investigate the recent whereabouts of Diane's mother Colleen, but America is not a country that uniformly issues identification documents at the federal level. If a person does not want to be known, there are many ways to avoid it. .

"Also, since Diane's flight to Atlanta is fake, they may have used other transportation, or took a car to the airport in New Jersey and then flew to the destination. Their choice of Atlanta as a hidden destination also shows some of their subconscious thoughts. .

Send an investigation notice to the FBI branches in states such as Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee around Georgia to see if there is a call with Diane Lane's name. "

Claire's last order brought unexpected results.

On the afternoon of the third day, the FBI branch in Tennessee called. Someone in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which borders Georgia, went to the police station and stole the car because the car was stolen in Georgia and in Tennessee. State, because it is an interstate crime, the police notified the FBI.

The man who turned himself in was a 15-year-old girl named Diane Lane, according to records.

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