19. Extract from later internal police e-mail

E-mail exchange between Captain Lyon Williams and DC Police Superintendent Gayle Edgeworth
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24 July
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"To: Gayle Edgeworth
From: Lyon Williams
Re: FW: Nurse Henry investigation
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Gayle

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Thanks for your e-mail. Yes I had seen the papers and it is probably best if I don't put in writing what I thought of their criticism about progress to date in the Nurse Henry case, especially as the papers do not know how close we are to making a real breakthrough.

Yesterday we received an anonymous tip-off from someone living in the Watergate Complex that she had seen our boy coming in and out of there a couple of times with a wife and child in tow. Unfortunately the Watergate's a pretty big place so it is going to take a while to track our boy down. However, we interviewed the security staff down there yesterday and a couple of them seem to think that they might have seen him also. I have two men down there trawling through security videos right now and another four officers doing door-to-door enquiries at every apartment and touching base with all the hotel staff. While I cannot guarantee that this will result in an arrest, my sense is that we are finally making progress after the usual lull that comes soon after the start of any investigation.

The FBI guys kindly did a run of all the CCTV footage from the rear of the Hoover Building and they are beginning to wonder whether our guy might be Irish. He certainly has the luck of the Irish. At the very moment he pulled up a delivery van pulled up alongside him completely blocking him from sight. So we have been looking at footage from premises around the area to see if we can get any sense of where he went. He most likely took a train from Metro Center, Navy Memorial or Federal Triangle. However, thanks to some contractor striking an electric cable with a digger yesterday, all the security cameras in the area were down around the time our boy made his way to the Metro. I have a couple of guys trawling through all the footage from the stations he might have gone through but that is over 30 stations at the height of rush-hour so I don't hold out much hope that they'll spot him anytime soon. So for now my money is on the Watergate.

As for the Manassas killing, the local police tell me that they do not have a lot to go on but what there is suggests that the papers have it right in this regard at least. Almost certainly it is our killer and almost certainly he has Wheen's magnum. However we are not "puzzled" as to what he might be up to, despite what the papers may claim. He is on the run, he needs money, and he will stop at nothing to get it. Chances are he is planning a hold-up. Our challenge is to nab him before he executes his plan. So a lot done - more than the papers give us credit for - but a lot more to do before we have our in killer in prison awaiting trial.

Regards

Lyon"