and she s here in charleston, and she doesn t have any money. and i m helping her out until she can whatever. but kate told her mother that heather would pay her back soon because she was a pediatric surgeon in charleston to take a new post at the local medical center. then a few days later, a distraught kate told her mother that heather s daughter back home in new jersey had been killed in a car accident. but something seemed odd about that, said janice. didn t seem like she was rushing to go up to new jersey to attend to the child that had been or that she was a grief-stricken woman. grief-stricken woman. she did not look that way at all. and now here was news that heather was living with kate s friend, ethan, in this tiny apartment. to me, she looked like a con artist. but no, said kate back then. janice had it all wrong. heather was nice. in fact, kate said she d
camera captured a young man named ethan mack standing at the counter of a bank waiting to cash a check signed by kate waring. problem was her account barely totalled $100, and this check was for $4500, and the signature seemed off. the teller called kate s dad. he called police. i never met ethan, didn t know ethan s last name. all i knew was the name ethan who was a friend. it s too strong to say that she had a secret life, but she certainly had friends and did things that we didn t know anything about. of course she did. she was 28 years old. and even though she was financially and emotionally dependent on her parents, she had lots of friends. some they knew, some they didn t. it was howard gatts, for example, a martial arts trainer in the midst of a contentious divorce with whom kate had been carrying on something of a romance.
through their eyes. he sat there for a bit, looked around. the russian notes in kate s handwriting made sense, but why chinese paper money? and why was her brand-new prescription sitting there untouched? the medication in which she had gotten for a prescription was still on her dresser, unused. that medication was her lifeline. she needed it to counter depression, anxiety, insomnia. she never left home without it. meanwhile, cyber-sleuth bill capps buried himself in social media sites. kate used them. bill scoured them all. if she was awake, she was facebooking, she was texting, she was calling people on the phone, she was e-mailing. and at the time she went missing, when everything immediately ceased, i mean, that was completely out of character for her. using kate s friends, capps built an electronic map of her communications the friday night she vanished. from kate s friend jason locke,
you presented to the police. yes. and? they didn t search the house. they never got a search warrant. they never asked for permission to search the house. they never said, hey, you misled us two months ago. but as the a-team discovered, ethan failed to mention something else, too. he had a girlfriend in this little place, a woman named heather angelica kamp. and when janice waring heard that, her mind went straight to an afternoon at home three months earlier. i heard voices upstairs. and so i went up, and katie had this strange girl in that i d never met before in the room with her. and that was her name, heather kamp. kate explained she met and rapidly became fast friends with heather on the train to palmetto during her trip down from washington. typical kate, janice thought back then. drawn to someone who needed help, who had told her a hard luck story. she said when she got on the train, her pocketbook was stolen.
but now almost two months later, kate was still missing. and the investigation such as it was had accomplished nothing. and john rivers couldn t stand what it was doing to his best friend, tom waring. i could see that he really was having a hard time functioning. so rivers picked up the phone again and told this man, do what it takes. his name is andy savage, former prosecutor, now famously tenacious criminal defense attorney. savage had heard about kate, too, and how police had no evidence of any crime. really? as soon as we scratched the surface just a little bit, we were absolutely convinced that foul play was involved. savage was given just two mandates find kate waring, tell police everything you find. that last part, keeping the police in the loop, should be easy, figured andy, given the team he assembled. a band of retired