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 Chapter 3

   Now that the where part was taken care of he needed the "who" part.He
started by just driving around.Seeing if there was someone who caught his
eye.He had seen a few that were sort of what he was looking for but so far
no one had fit the whole package.He was looking for someone special.She
would be 5'5'' or under, skinny,long dark hair,and a smoker as he had just
a bit of a smoking fetish.She would be 30 or under,never married and had no
kids.Those were the guidelines and he would not settle for anyone else.

   When he saw someone that met the looks department he begin to follow
her,study her.Thru his computer skills and a few well chosen web sites he
got all the info he could on her.  Public records was a very good way of
getting info on someone.Was she married or had she ever been?  Was there
any children?  Where did she work and what did she do?Did she have loads of
outstanding debt?  What did she drive?Was it a piece of crap or something
new?  Was she and only child?  Where did her relatives live?

   Most of his prospects failed the investigation.They were married or had
kids and that was something he did not want.Some had shit jobs and had tons
of credit bills and people like that where always found by the people they
owed.  Some had drug problems and some wanted by the police.If he wanted he
could have made a very good buck turning them in.Some had too many
relatives living in the area.In short he wanted someone like
himself.Someone who was alone,well off in the cash department,smart,and had
very few or no long lasting contacts with the rest of the world.Someone who
could disappear with little or no notice.

   He was driving late one night in a town a few towns away from his and
just by sure luck he saw her.She was walking out of a large bank.She was
walking alone to the parking garage across the street.She was beautiful.She
was about 5'2 must have only weighed 120lbs wet,had shoulder lenght dark
hair and was smoking what looked to be a long white 120.She was walking
kinda slow but smoking very fast as it seemed it had been a lond time since
she last had one.He almost had an accident when he saw her,He pulled over
and waited next to the exit of the parking garage.As it was late he was
fairly sure hers would be the next car leaving-he was right.He very quickly
wrote down the make,model and lisence of her car as she pulled out.

   He hard a hard time driving home without speeding,he had to get to his
computer to begin her investigation.He got home and very fast booted up his
computer.As he had done so many times before he hacked into the department
of motor vehicles and typed in her plate number.Her name was Nora.She lived
in the same town as the bank.From the counties public database he could
find nothing telling him she was ever married.He then sent the same inquiry
to the surrounding counties and again found no mariage cetificate.Nora was
looking better and better.With her date of birth from the DMV records he
began his search for her birthplace.In the local hospitals he found
nothing.No one matching her last name as far back as 35 years ago.He then
sent out a state wide seach and again found nothing.He tried sending out a
search to the surrounding states and it was almost 2 days before he found
what he was seeking.She was born 27 years ago in small hospital two states
away.From the local public database there he could find no other births
matching her parents name.She was an only child.

   He then started on her credit report.If people really knew how easy it
was to find out info on someone by someone who knew what they was doing
they would never leave the house.In short order he found she had A1
credit.Only had 2 credit cards which she used only rarely and both were
paid in full.My Nora--you are impressing me more and more.He looked at the
state and local police public information sites and found nothing.Not even
a parking ticket in the last 5 years.

   He had gotten all he was going to get from the computer.Now it was time
to watch her.Since all of his subjects had not passed the computer tests he
found himself so excited he had to tell himself to slow down .The first
test was to find out if she lived alone.He drove to her house.It was a nice
two story brick house in the upper scale side of town.Very late one evening
he parked his car two blocks away and walked to her house.When he got there
he quickly hid in the bushes and set up a time laspe camera which was set
to take a picture of her front door and garage every half hour for the next
48 hours.Hed had trouble sleeping and working the next 2 days before he got
back the camera.He quickly developed the picutures and found that she left
early in the am and got home late every evening.No one besides the mail man
came or went from her house but her in the entire 2 days.She lived alone.

   Now he was really started to get excited.Next was watching her.He would
park a few houses away in the early am and would follow her to work at the
bank.He was lucky,he could come and go from work at anytime and noone would
say a word.She stopped every morning at the the Starbucks across from the
bank and bought coffee.One morning he was already inside to see just what
kind of coffee she liked.She would come out to the smokers area at regular
times to smoke--always alone.If there where people already there she would
go down the block or into the parking garage to find privicy.She always
seemed to work late,At least past 5 like everyone else.She would stop at
the local market almost every night to buy dinner and cigerettes.Seemed
Nora did not plan much or maybe she just hated shopping.She would arive at
home and from peeking inside her window a few times she worked at her
computer or would read a book before turning in at a resonable hour.

   He had gone thru her garbage one night,Lots of empty microwave dinners
and lots of empty cigerette packs.He was right.Virginia Slims 120's non
menthol.  One day he made a very bold move.Using the skills he had learned
thru an internet locksmithing course he picked the back door while she was
at work.  Her home was very orderly.Some might even say a bit anal.There
was no mess anywhere.The closets where nice and tidy,everything hung or put
into some storage container.The kitchen was clean enogh you could have
eaten of the floor.The icebox was almost empty except for some milk and
juice.The freezer was empty.The bathroom was just as clean.She even put the
toothpaste top back on and rolled it up from the bottom.Her music
collection was top notch and of course all cd's were put back inside the
cover.It was mostly classical with a bit of mordern jazz and tucked away in
one corner was a Led Zepplin cd.Guess she had to work out some tension from
time to time.The bedroom was last.The bed was made and looked like it was
never used.It took some time but he finnaly found it-a small bullet
vibrator and some lube.My God-she even had spare batteries in the same
drawer!

   It had taken 2 monthes of computer work and watching her before he made
up his mind.She was the one.