Detective Doherty consults his notes and pulls out a photo.

“Do you recognize this man?”

I study the picture he gives me. The guy has short dark hair, he looks tall but rather non descript. I shrug.

“Never seen him before,” I reply, handing back the picture.

The detective looks at me intently for a minute and clears his throat.

“Mr. Saunders…do you do drugs?”

“What? No!”

“Did Ms. Edwards ever – ”

“No! Why would you even ask that?”

“The man in this photo is a convicted drug offender with a bad reputation. He was seen around this area prior to the accident and we found a partial fingerprint that matches his on the car.”

“So what? You think I owed him money, skipped town and left her here?” I ask appalled.

“We’re just looking into everything” he replies with a sigh, the standard police reply.