Shreveport Police Department

The Shreveport Police Department is one of the local law-enforcement agencies involved when suspicion surrounding Edward Villarosas becomes an immediate concern for Kimani Cannon’s family. Its role in the novel is shown through practical cooperation across jurisdictions: contacting police, exchanging information, and questioning Wynona after she is found safe. The department enters a case whose earlier failures had left the disappearances of Villarosas’s two former wives unresolved.

Identity and Role

The department is represented in the account by Detective Mark Hogan. When Hogan arrives at Kimani Cannon’s home, he identifies himself as a Shreveport police detective and introduces Detective Arnold Reddick of the Atlanta Police Department and Landon Chestnut of the Peachtree Private Investigative Firm. Their joint arrival places the Shreveport agency within a mixed law-enforcement and private-investigation response rather than presenting it as the sole agency pursuing the matter.

Coordination Around Wynona’s Disappearance

After learning that Wynona Cannon and Edward Villarosas have gone to Las Vegas, Duan Jeffries contacts the Shreveport Police Department and checks airline information to establish their flight number and arrival. The confirmation that their flight has landed intensifies concern when Wynona does not answer her phone. The account distinguishes this information-gathering from the arrest action: Las Vegas police are contacted, and a warrant is issued for Villarosas’s arrest.

The department’s involvement reflects the case’s movement across city and state lines. Wynona is in Las Vegas, the planned marriage and family concerns are centered in Shreveport, and investigators connected with Atlanta also take part. The Shreveport agency thus helps sustain communication around a rapidly developing situation, while the specific warrant and rescue are attributed to Las Vegas police.

Questioning and Aftermath

Following Villarosas’s arrest, Wynona is questioned by police from Las Vegas, Shreveport, and Atlanta. Four hours after Kim receives her mother’s call, Wynona is back home in Shreveport. She has returned on a law-enforcement plane and, after being given a sedative, is resting while Kim tries to keep relatives away so that she can recover.

The department’s function in the aftermath is part of a broader interagency inquiry: Wynona recounts that Villarosas asked to see her and tried to justify why his former wives deserved to die. He does not deny the charges, and he confesses his crimes to Wynona and the Las Vegas detectives. The Shreveport Police Department is not identified as the agency that secures that confession, but its participation in questioning Wynona places it among the authorities gathering information after the arrest.

Connection to the Older Case

The Shreveport Police Department’s involvement comes after years of unresolved suspicion, not during the original investigations described in the novel. Villarosas’s two wives disappeared five years apart, and Atlanta detectives had been unable to connect him to either disappearance. They had found no bodies, while Villarosas maintained that the women had left him for other men; his alibis and the absence of evidence had prevented the cases from moving from missing persons to homicide.

Later investigative work changes the evidentiary picture: a former girlfriend describes Villarosas’s jealous threats, and Stein Green admits that Villarosas hired him to get rid of both wives. Against that history, Shreveport’s role is distinctive but carefully bounded. The department participates in the urgent response to Wynona’s situation and in her subsequent questioning, while the novel assigns the older investigative failures to Atlanta detectives and the Las Vegas arrest operation to Las Vegas police.