Chapter 27
Interviewer: Sergeant Luke Carter (LC)
Interviewee: Harrison Woolf (HW)
Location: Hope Falls police station
Cont.
HW: I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to snap. Today is just … a lot. I still can’t believe any of this is happening.
LC: I understand. If I could just have the contact details for your daughter—
HW: You don’t understand.
LC: So explain it to me.
HW: Our daughter is eighteen but she’s still just a child. She doesn’t know anything about any of this and can’t help you, but I’ll give you a number for where she lives now if you insist on it.
LC: Thank you. It would also be useful if I could speak to some of your wife’s friends. Do you have numbers for them too? They might be able to shed some light on how she was feeling.
HW: Haven’t I done that already? I told you, Eden was feeling fine. Happiest she’s been for years.
LC: Sometimes it can be hard to tell those who we are closest to how we are really feeling. You are completely right, we don’t know for sure what has happened to Eden yet, but we do know that she is missing. Is there a friend you can think of that she might have confided in or gone to stay with?
HW: My wife doesn’t have any friends.
LC: Really? She seemed very friendly when I met her. And very sociable at the art gallery last night.
HW: That was her wanting to make friends. This move, this place, it was all meant to be a fresh start for us. We got married when she was still very young, and taking care of our daughter took over her whole life for a long time. She always put Gabriella first.
LC: Were there other parents at your daughter’s school that she was friendly and still in touch with?
HW: Our daughter was homeschooled. Eden didn’t have time for friends and until recently didn’t seem to want any.
I can’t explain it any other way. It’s just how she was.
Is. She has always been happy in her own company.
I often have to travel for work, but Eden spent the last ten years at home with Gabby. That’s just how our lives were.
LC: May I ask what you do for a living?
HW: I’d rather not say.
LC: Can I ask why?
HW: You can ask what you want, but my work isn’t relevant.
LC: It might be.
HW: You think my wife jumped off a cliff because of my job? I’ve had the same job for years, and it paid for the life she wanted.
LC: The name of the company, if you don’t mind?
HW: I do mind, but fine, if it helps find her. I’m the CEO of a pharmaceutical and tech company in London called Thanatos.