Sex Trafficking Part 10: The End of the Sex Trafficking Operation_(0)

This is a not an erotic story. There are no sex scenes.


After being assigned to look into Tracee’s disappearance, Rowdy talked to the December 2015 Christmas show organizers. No one had any record of Tracee Nelson attending. After checking in the day of the Christmas trade show the Blue Point had checked Tracee out the next day when her bill went unpaid.

Rowdy saw the incoming call identified as the Redville police chief.

“This is Rowdy. How can I help you?”

The Redville police chief told him about the messages he had just gotten about an attempted kidnapping in Raymond as part of a sex trafficking operation and since Rowdy was heading up the investigation he would forward the messages to Rowdy. Rowdy said he didn’t see the connection to Tracee Nelson’s disappearance but with nothing else to use as a starting point he was chasing down anything that seemed out of place. A message about an attempted kidnapping as part of a sex trafficking operation in Raymond was way out of bounds and Rowdy thought this might be the starting point he needed. The police chief also told him about finding a cab abandoned at the Redville airport. He gave Rowdy the plate number. Rowdy recalled that Tracee had been on the phone talking to her mom in route to the convention center in a cab when the call got dropped. After that she had never talked to Tracee again. She hadn’t checked out of the Blue Point on her own. He did a data base search for anything about the cab plate number. There was a hit that might be worthwhile to follow up on. On the night and about the time of Tracee’s disappearance an angry visitor had snapped a picture of a cab’s plate that matched the number on the abandoned cab.

Rowdy called the Redville police chief and got clearance to move the abandoned cab from the airport to the police garage. Once he had the cab back in the Raymond police department garage he had a mechanic go over it carefully. This was not just some run of the mill cab. He was advised about the special features. The dashboard signals, the ear phone jack that would allow someone in the rear seat to have their conversation heard, the window between front and rear seats that once closed could only be opened from the front seat. No lock knobs or handles on the rear doors wasn’t unusual. A GPS tracker wasn’t unusual either. The most notable special feature was the nozzle under the trunk. The mechanic tested it and found that the nozzle would allow someone outside the cab to put something into the cab. Quite by accident the mechanic was on his phone when he activated the jammer. The call was immediately dropped and the GPS lost a useable signal down.

Rowdy had the locks changed so he could drive the cab and retrieved the GPS tracker information. He was hoping to find data from the time of Tracee’s disappearance but there was nothing that far back. The most recent data showed that the cab had been close to the channel and ocean side point. Nothing for the last two days. He reasoned that if someone wanted to not have the cab location tracked the signal jammer could be activated and the tracker wouldn’t receive any information to record. He drove to the point. The closest parking was at the lighthouse and the indicated coordinates were almost an exact match with the GPS tracking information showing that the cab had been at the point.

So the cab was either here or very close to here.

He got out and started walking around. Carla, Jeff, and Beverly were setting up the storage room where Jeff had been held for Beverly to use. At about the same time Rowdy saw Carla, Carla saw Rowdy.

Carla, Rowdy, and Sam sat on the deck. They talked about Jeff’s attempt to take Carla and Sam prisoner, the storage room with the bed, restraints, and locks. By then they had removed the posts, bedding, and restraints and renovations were well underway for Beverly’s use. They told Rowdy about putting Jeff in the rear of his cab and then texting someone just referred to as Chief and Ryan Brown.

Rowdy thought that Jeff’s cab and the notebook could be keys to figuring out what happened to Tracee. He told Carla and Sam that he would have preferred for them to have contacted him earlier but didn’t see that they had done anything illegal.