“I don’t know. I wasn’t there when he made it.”
“Did you hear or observe anything else?”
“Just some hollering. Then the Rosen men come stomping out of that room, none of them even looking at each other. Nothin’ but cold hate and old grudges in their eyes. I drove Dr. Rosen home. Never heard him be so quiet.”
Ceepak shifts gears. “It seems you and Michael are on very friendly terms?”
“We sure are.”
“Did he buy you your car?”
I grin. Ceepak noticed the Z, too.
“Did Michael tell you about that? Because I wasn’t supposed to tell anybody. Promised him and Revae I never would.”
“Who’s Revae?” asks Ceepak.
“My sister. She’s known Michael longer than me. Revae’s the one who got me this job.”
“How?”
“By telling Michael his daddy had to hire me.”
“How come.”
Monae shrugs. “I don’t know. You’ll have to ask her.”
“Don’t worry,” says Ceepak. “We will.”
Ceepak and I spend the rest of Sunday afternoon tracking down Joy Kochman and Revae Dunn.
We finally draw a bead on Joy Kochman thanks to the folks at the AtlantiCare Home Health Aide Agency. She has taken a live-in position with a wealthy couple up in Lavallette. That’s about an hour north of Sea Haven. You have to leave the island, head up the Garden State Parkway, exit at Tom’s River, cross over another causeway to Seaside Heights, then drive a few miles north.
So we call our friends in the Lavallette Police Department. Ask them to keep an eye on 323 Bayview Drive, the waterfront home where Ms. Kochman is currently working and living, until we can run up and conduct a proper interview.
As for Revae Dunn, we learn she lives and works in Avondale, the same town where Mainland Medical is located. We need to talk to her, too. Find out what’s up with her and Michael Rosen. How come she was able to swing a job for her sister, Monae, not to mention a shiny new Z car, too.
But both Revae Dunn and Joy Kochman have to wait till Monday.
Because Sunday evening we get a call from Steven Robins, a senior partner at Bernhardt, Hutchens, and Catherman. He is the executor of Dr. Rosen’s estate.
“I know this is highly unusual,” says the lawyer, who Ceepak puts on speakerphone in his office, “but I was able to pull some strings at Surrogate Court and move Dr. Rosen’s will through probate, post haste.”