The detectives and their supervisors had been engaged in an ongoing debate about whether Danny and Scott should go to Troy to interview witnesses or whether they should rely on the very able support they were getting from Chief Everage and Detective Sergeant Calista Everage (the chief's sister). “ALABAMA” had been up on the dryboard in the conference room along with the long list of potential witnesses to be interviewed, waiting to rise higher in the priority list or for the detectives to have time to deal with it. Now, with Gorman in custody and Littlefield also in jail for shoplifting, and with many other friends and relatives in whom Gorman might have confided, Alabama had risen to the top of the list. Everyone agreed it was important to the case for the detectives to have face-to-face contact with the Alabama witnesses while the information was still fresh. On that Wednesday evening, the decision was finally made that Young and Harakles should go to Alabama to interview Gorman before Probation and Parole arrived to bring him back to Maine, as well as to speak with other local witnesses.
