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"It looks we've run up against a little bit of a dead end, haven’t we? I mean, finding out about this mummy was huge, but I don't think it will lead us to Sarah. Not directly anyway. The trail is too cold, and there's not much connecting the victims either way.”
Alexander examined the immigration records of Marcello Marino. Entrance records existed, but no exit records. His destination was sort of a rural area, not a big city, or popular tourist area. Maybe he wanted to observe nature. Then did it mean Marcello met Sarah in a rural area? What did she do there and when did she move to the city where the body was found? Alexander couldn't figure it out.
He scoped the documents about Sarah out. There were fingerprints, but nothing matching. The pharmacy where she worked, according to Lucas' statement, didn't have any record about her at all. The pharmacist testified. The pharmacist was too old to work alone, so he wanted to hire somebody kind and sincere. He advertised for an employee that was responsible.
One day, a man, pulling his hat over his eyes, came into the store. He asked him to hire his sister, because he wanted to help her to build some social experience before studying abroad. The man gave the pharmacist a large amount of money, equivalent to his annual income, for the trouble. The pharmacist was stunned, and just looked at him. Before handing over the cash to the pharmacist, the man demanded that he not ask further information about her also, and said that he doesn't need his sister to be paid.
After meeting the sister, the pharmacist was relieved. Moreover, he was too excited by getting big money for hiring that young beautiful, kind woman under the conditions that the guy proposed. What the pharmacist knew about her was only her name, Nina Watkins, which was obviously fake. She worked there as a salesperson, but disappeared after not more than 2 weeks. The pharmacist kept his promise with the man in question. He really had no clue about Nina.
On the other hand, It was a lot different in the jewelry shop. The woman named Sarah, she came to the shop by herself, having read the advertisement for a position in the newspaper. She submitted all documents the owner needed. Identification, resume, etc. All were there. The owner testified that the woman named Sarah was almost an expert about gems. She had a beautiful face, modest attitude and spoke in a smart way, and the owner couldn't help but to hire her. But she disappeared in 3 weeks.
Later on, the owner and investigators found out that all documents she submitted were counterfeit. The actual Sarah had died long ago, and was not related at all to the jewelry shop, nor to anything or anybody related to the case.
Since they were running a small business, it wasn't out of the ordinary that they didn't scrutinize the background of most employees.
