Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 230 Kidnapping?

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

   "I'll be right back," Burt said, and was about to leave.

"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 thought Rudy's name was familiar, and when the real person arrived, he was the lawyer who represented the NYPD last time and negotiated a settlement plan that detained him without procedures.

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

   Rudy is a very capable lawyer in his thirties. He looks like an Italian, similar to Al Pacino, who plays Michael in The Godfather, only a little thinner than him, and his ears are 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 it doesn't quite conform to the reporting procedure, Ronald has a good relationship with the NYPD Manhattan South District. Patrol officers often drink free coffee in their leg warmer shop. Coupled with Rudy's help, a detective was dispatched to take charge.

Inspector    asked the technical team to start monitoring the phone at Aunt Ronald Karen's house, then chatted with Rudy for a while, and took 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 you have any enemies with your daughter Diane?" the detective asked Diane's father, Bert.

   "No, I'm just a humanities lecturer at the City University of New York. I've been an acting coach before, and I've driven a taxi before. 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 was heard nearby, exclaimed.

   Ronald motioned her not to worry, then said to the inspector:

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

Inspector    nodded and instructed his subordinates, "This is also used as a clue to follow up to see if the people of "Children of God" have recent entry records." Then he turned his head and said to everyone:

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

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

   "No, Diane agreed to buy a present for Ronald, and she won't go to someone else halfway." Donna argued for her friend next to her.

   Inspector shrugged. Teenagers often think 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 liberals of the Donkey Party to the Elephant Party, and his connections to the Elephant Party, he might have become the third-in-command of the Ministry of Justice - the Deputy Attorney General, and the NYPD would not have paid attention to 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 have talked with Diane's teacher 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.

   Usually, Diane 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 actor, but she gets along well with her, at least she has no enemies in the school.

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

   By nine o'clock in the evening, Bert had been escorted by the police to Aunt Karen's house, and the telephone line had been set up, so far no one has received any news calls.

   "Ring, bell, bell..." 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.

Inspector    ended up calling: "...very good, you can ask in the surrounding shops if anyone has seen them later...you continue to track down this clue."

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

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

   But the clerk was receiving 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 is an important clue. The detective immediately arranged for his subordinates to go to the railway station and long-distance bus station to check whether there was Diane's 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.

   "Well, 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. Does she know anyone in Atlanta?" Inspector asked Burt.

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

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

   "Diane's mother, Colleen Farrington, has been in touch with her recently, but Colleen is from New Mexico, and she and I have been living in New Jersey since our divorce," Burt replied, then looked 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 just 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 was worried about Diane when she heard this, and felt that she was not doing her duty to take care of her. She was ashamed of Bert and began to cry. 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 from the FBI's New York headquarters, came to Ronald's house with several agents wearing FBI vests.

   Ronald saw Claire, an acquaintance, 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 has 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.

   And Diane is a 15-year-old young woman. Although she doesn't know whether the other party is cooperating with other people, even if she loses her strength, 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 his own name, someone at the ticket counter might remember something unusual if he was coerced. Diane also had a few chances to call for help, but none of that happened.

   On the whole, 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, hoping that Diane would go 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 recalled.

   "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 still no news, and there was no phone call from the person who took Di An away. Ronald looked at Bert and Aunt Karen and the others, and couldn't hold it any longer.

   After discussing with Detective 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.

   After another two hours, the FBI agent who went to the airport to investigate brought back the 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 this movie child star case. If it can't be handled properly, it will soon be smelled by the news media. If it is published, it will 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. .

  Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee and other states around Georgia have issued assistance investigation notices to see if there is any report call in the name of Diane Lane. "

  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, came 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.

   turned himself in by a 15-year-old girl named Diane Lane, according to records.

   (end of this chapter)