Part 3 — Wendells Second Tracker Deputy Ochoa read the last line aloud. The place where Mrs. Haney would be the next Friday, when her house sat empty, was the …

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Part 3 — Dorothy Beneath The Floor The name Mrs. Pryor told me over the phone was Dorothy. Her younger sister, ninety-one years old, who had lived in the back …

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Part 3 — Jenna Is Alive The address on the bank account opened in Jenna Rourkes name in 2021 was a mailbox store in Rutland, a block from Lamars truck …

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Part 3 — Devon Was Watching The name on the emergency contact card taped to Miss Inezs refrigerator belonged to her grand-nephew Devon, thirty-four, living in Gulfport. She had not …

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Part 3 — The Attic Tenant The name written beside the circled Tuesday was Candice Voss. Miss Tolbert knew her as the cheerful woman who did her hair every week …

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Part 3 — The Bank Teller Text The second number belonged to a teller at the bank on Capital Avenue. Her name was Megan Rusk, twenty-seven, with a lanyard and …

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Part 3 — Unit 114 Opened Brent held out his hand for the keys like a man asking for his own wallet. I looked at Lorraine, then at him, and …

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Part 3 — Walters Friday Deed The legal pad said Friday, 10 a.m., and below it was a street address downtown. The young officer read it out twice. Walter sat …

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What her husband had sealed inside that tank slid out into my hand wrapped in a sandwich bag against the fuel, and I set it on the workbench and gripped …

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Where the spare should have been, wrapped in a feed sack and packed in tight so it would not shift, was a steel ammunition box, and I set my socket …

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