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And she said that, actually,

No one had heard from Cyril since the night Tabitha was killed.

And she said that she was really worried about him because Cyril's mental health was quite fragile.

About a year earlier, he'd suffered a huge mental breakdown after the death of another sibling, which was why Tabitha had invited him to live with her in the first place.

And so now Tabitha's mom was afraid that Cyril had spiraled again and might be in trouble.

But as empathetic as Sienna was,

Ultimately, this information he was getting from the mother did not paint Cyril as like a guy in need of help.

It painted Cyril as being really suspicious.

And so as politely as he could, Sienna asked the mom if she had any idea of like how he could go about trying to find Cyril, like any way he could even begin that process.

And Tabitha's mom, she thought for a moment and then said that if anyone knew where Cyril was, it was his girlfriend, Cassidy Green.

One night, about a week after Tabitha's funeral, Sergeant Sienna sat in the back of an unmarked van in downtown Rochester.

And through the windshield, he watched a man standing alone in an alley, pacing back and forth, constantly checking his phone.

This was all part of a sting operation that Sienna hoped would finally lead him to Tabitha's half-brother, Cyril.

Ever since Tabitha's funeral, he and his fellow deputies have been trying to track Cyril down...

But so far, they'd had no luck.

It looked an awful lot like Cyril had either left town or was actively hiding from the police.

However, Sienna had managed to locate Cyril's girlfriend, Cassidy, who, it would turn out, was well known to the police for being a drug dealer and an escort who went by the working name of Angel.

Now, Sienna doubted that if he approached Cassidy directly, that she would just immediately give up Cyril's location willingly.

And so what he needed to do was, like, get leverage on her first.

So Sienna went to an informant of his with a plan.