“He set up a remote voice link from his cell to fool anyone who rang the bell.”

“The system records every movement on the porch and saves the videos on a secure cloud server,” I said, locking the phone and putting it down next to my duffel.

Officer Bell looked around the kitchen at the rotting food on the counters and the sticky latch on the back door.

“In Chesapeake, the property loopholes in domestic cases make these situations hard, Major, and they get under my skin every time.”

“What sort of loopholes?” I asked.