It was wrinkled but readable. According to the Spindrift Bugle, the murder of young Taylor Reminger was a once-in-a century event. Spindrift was one of many resort towns in Florida, places where spring breakers occasionally lost their lives in one way or another. Booze, drugs, sex, youth, and an ocean were a lethal combination. But even those kinds of deaths hadn’t occurred in the town in over twenty years. Taylor was Taylor “Tey” Hope Reminger, from Long Island, a student who’d expected to start college in New Orleans later in the year. Her photo was one of a reasonably attractive girl making the most of her looks in what appeared to be a high school graduation photo. Quinn noted that she was twenty-two, so she’d put off college for a while. The thing about her that interested Quinn was the manner of her death. She’d apparently been tortured with shallow, skillful cuts by a sharp blade, where it would hurt the most. Not only hurt, but humiliate. Nipples had been removed, along with an earlobe, found lying alongside Tey’s head with a cheap souvenir shell earring still attached.
