IDLEMAN: "Good evening officer Hillard. The date is the 27th of June, 2023. I'm here on the behalf of <REDACTED> with some questions regarding the crash on <REDACTED> the other night. Before we continue, it's important that you know that this interview is being recorded. Do you acknowledge and consent to the recording of this interview?"
HILLARD: "Yes. I consent to this interview being recorded."
IDLEMAN: "Great. So, it's my understanding that the car was empty when you found it. I would like you to recount to the best of your memory everything that happened, from the moment you got out of your car to the moment you got back in and left."
HILLARD: "Uh, okay so, the first thing I do when I step out of my vehicle is call to any individuals that might be inside the crashed car. I hear nothing, and when I walk up to the car the door is wide open and the car is empty. At that point I looked around the surrounding area and called out to see if I could find the driver of the vehicle, but I wasn't sure how long the car had been there for so I had no idea how far they could have gone. Uh, at that point I called some other officers who searched further in the surrounding area, and when they didn't find anything of note either I got the car ready for a tow."
IDLEMAN: "Could you give me the names of those officers?"
HILLARD: "Officer Ashley Kerridge and Phillip Delano."
IDLEMAN: "Could you spell those last names for me?"
HILLARD: "K E R R I D G E and D E L A N O."
IDLEMAN: "Thank you. Now, what state was the car in? Did it have any serious damage, or did it look like it just veered to the side a bit?"
HILLARD: "Well, it wasn't like, on its side or anything, but there were some pretty harsh tire marks in the grass. It seemed like it hit a tree too, but it couldn't have been going very fast since the damage to the front was minimal."
IDLEMAN: "Interesting. Do you believe there was any chance that this was not an accident?"
HILLARD: "Honestly, no, not really. From what I heard about the case, the kid that's gone missing had no experience with a car. I hear <REDACTED>."
IDLEMAN: "Alright. You mentioned that you called towing. It's my understanding that to do that you must first log the valuables inside the car. Did you find anything?"
HILLARD: "No. The car was empty, like, notably empty. Even under the seat, there wasn't any random trash or anything, not even a crumb. The only thing in the car was a business card in the cup holder."
IDLEMAN: "For who?"
HILLARD: "Seriously?"
IDLEMAN: "Every detail counts."
HILLARD: "Uh, some, like, weird fortune telling thing. 'The Oracle'. There was a phone number on it too but nobody wrote anything down."
IDLEMAN: "Okay. Now, how did you find the car? Did you hear it or-"
HILLARD: "Oh, no, I didn't find it. Someone called it in."
IDLEMAN: "Oh? Did you speak to the caller?"
HILLARD: "I didn't, no."
IDLEMAN: "Were they on the scene?"
HILLARD: "No."
IDLEMAN: "Don't people usually wait for the police to arrive?"
HILLARD: "It's about half and half, sometimes people just want to go about their day. Sue mentioned that the call was weird, I assumed they were in a rush or something."
IDLEMAN: "Sue?"
HILLARD: "Yeah, Susan. She was the operator who handled the call. Susan Winters. W I N T E R S."
IDLEMAN: "She said it was weird? In what way?"
HILLARD: "She just said it was weird. I didn't hear anything else about it."
IDLEMAN: "Hm. Well, this was quite productive. Thank you for agreeing to an interview, officer Hillard."
HILLARD: "Glad I can help."
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