Entry #16: The lying rabbi
The tale of Two Pigeons continues. If you’re new to this start with Entry #1: The Job. To read all installments…please become a paying subscriber.
I got some great news confirming my hunch about the rabbi. Boris has been stuck in his resort and like everyone else has had a lot of free time on his hands. So he went through some of the footage and found what I had expected. Moishe — Misha’s rabbi who claims to not be Misha’s rabbi, the same rabbi who said he hadn’t seen Misha in months — was actually with Misha at Indian Springs just a week before Misha disappeared. They were there for two days and nights. Hanging out, praying, sacrificing animals. Basically they were partying together. The asshole had lied to me.
Boris sent me a clip from a camera overlooking the pool deck. It was dark but there was no mistaking it: There was Moishe standing around in a voluminous cloak with Misha and a couple of other guys (need to run their faces through search), chatting, eating snacks, laughing, drinking wine, wrapping himself with a tefillin, the funny looking black leather magic amulet that religious Jews wrap around their ams and place on their heads on a few a times a day. Gotcha, I thought as I watched them hanging out in their weird flowing robes and capes in full view of the surveillance cameras. You weren’t as good at covering your tracks as you thought. Or maybe they weren’t trying hard and didn’t care…
I sent Leah the clip and she was shocked.