"Did they investigate?" Lux asked.
"No," Baffle replied. "It appears that Thomas was labeled mentally unstable and was discharged from the military. No one took him seriously. They all just... swept it under the rug and cut Thomas out of the picture. He ranted and raved until the day he died that Anthony was behind his granddaughter's kidnapping."
"Do we know why he's so sure?" Sabel asked.
"No, and I tried to look," he said. "The most we could do is visit his son, the granddaughter's father. Not sure if he'd talk though. From what I've gathered, shortly after Thomas' death, his son somehow came into a lot of money. Four million, actually."
"He took a fu.cking pay-out on his daughter's kidnapping?" Sabel asked incredulously.
"I think it was to buy his silence. Maybe he had some kind o
