The billing address matched a side business Curtis had registered for pool repairs.

“It could be ordinary business,” Ellis said.

“We’re checking.”

“Then why dump a computer in the pool?”

“We don’t know who put it there or why yet.”

The damaged equipment recovered from the pool included a laptop and external storage devices.

Technicians were working to recover data if possible.

The bags had also held shredded paper, old uniforms with the landscaping supplier’s logo, and pieces of a filing cabinet drawer.