Some quick but extremely vital updates. Please read carefully, boss. I’m going to call you after I end this to follow up.
And I know you’re going to ask me about sources, and I’ll share what I can with you at a later date if you really need to know. But in the past, you’ve expressed strong disinterest in all of my “dark-web geek stuff,” as you call it. So it’s up to you. Just know that this information comes with the usual caveats.
I have a very solid lead on Roz Cline’s killer. Yes, killer. Her death was no accident; this was a one-hundred-percent professional hit.
What’s interesting is who they hired. The job didn’t go to local muscle—and that upset the local muscle a great deal. Instead, the job went to an upper-echelon gunman who works out of both Vegas and Atlantic City. Expensive as they come, and absolutely bold and brazen. My sense is that he’s the guy you bring in when you have champagne problems. The local muscle grumbled about it, but it’s clear they’re afraid of him, so they didn’t grumble too loud.
Why bring in a hitter this expensive for a casino hostess like Roz Cline? It stands to reason she must have had some expensive information about Archie Hughes in her head.
I’m still working on identifying this hit man. Even an alias will help me track him, although I doubt he’s still on the East Coast.
I’m also searching for who hired him, though the clients in these situations are always very well shielded (as you can imagine). But even if I can’t find the client’s identity, knowing what channels he or she used will be helpful. There are only so many ways you can find a killer for hire, and the method of communication will tell me a great deal about the client.
More updates as I learn them.
But I can’t stress this enough: Watch your back out there. You know me, boss. Very little frightens me. Well, I am very frightened by the types of people who are involved in this investigation.
Keep your head low. You know your tendency to take a wild leap, maybe piss off the wrong person? Yeah, don’t do that. At least not until you hear from me again.