As we sped around Columbus Circle I called Cat on my cell phone and she gave me the info on the two people she wanted me to try to see this morning. The other nanny was named Janice and she had apparently been Heidi’s closest friend, her only friend, in fact, as far as Cat knew. Like Heidi, Janice was American, something that according to Cat was fairly unusual in the New York City nanny world. Cat had seen Janice on only a couple of occasions, knew practically nothing about her, and had her number only because it had been offered up by the housekeeper, Carlotta. The other person to contact was the ex-boyfriend, name of Jody Ransom (or possibly Radson). He worked at a Starbucks on Third Avenue at 90th Street, but Cat had no idea where he lived. She believed he had begun dating Heidi sometime early last fall and had gotten the boot after the first of the year, though he had turned up sporadically in the new role of “friend.”
