I just wonder why the neighbors never called social services or the cops about the yelling and banging and so on.... that's what bugs me.
They did. On Thursday night, the neighbors heard screaming from what they thought was the apartment in back of theirs. The police officers arrived on Thursday night, checked the apartment in back of theirs, all were asleep and left.
The next morning, the police arrived to serve a warrant for a traffic violation at the apartment above those who had called, and the young man asked the police officers if they were there about the truck. The police responded, "no, we're here to serve a warrant." When the police were about to leave, the young man asked them to look at the truck again. They did, and it went from there.
Also, the Assistant Manager at the Imo's Pizza Parlor went to the police when he couldn't ignor the nagging little voice in his head that his Manager owned a truck just like the one described and that Devlin had been absent from work on Monday and Tuesday of that week. He felt like he was crazy to be talking to the police about the boss he had had for 20 years, but he couldn't deny that prompt he was getting from his conscience. That's how it came down. Even the police said they couldn't believe it because they had frequented the Imo's location which is two doors down from the police station and city hall.
There had been no indication that anything was wrong according to the neighbors or employees, until Ben was brought into the picture. That's the first scream they'd ever heard. No one suspected that Shawn wasn't Devlin's son. We have lots of private school students in Kirkwood, so no one thought it was particularly odd that the kid didn't go to the public schools. Lots of Catholic Schools, lots of private academies. Nobody thinks a thing of it. If you don't attend church, you wouldn't know who goes where.