Kim felt her heart jump into her throat. "Yes? Who is it?" "It's J.D. Paxton. Come on . . . open up! I have a message for you." A variety of thoughts raced through Kim's mind. Paxton! Paxton was the killer! SIS said so, and more importantly, voice analysis said so too. The Havlik murder had gone unobserved, and the killer had managed to neutralize the Outward Bound's video surveillance system prior to Rosemary Parker's death, but the conference room where she had been killed was equipped with its own voice-activated recording system. A convenience for staff meetings and the like. But since the system was not hooked into security, and the better part of nine months had passed between the murder and the investigation, no one had thought to check it. No one but SIS, that is, and in the absence of orders to the contrary she'd assigned the task a rather low priority, waiting until Ochoa's death to run an analysis. An analysis that required the computer to compare thousands of voice prints and ate an enormous amount of processing time.
