I can see why you were so freaked out then.”“We need to talk to the guys from Missing Persons about the pictures on the Wells’s walls, and then we need to go back and talk to them again. We’ve got to figure this shit out quick. Nothing is right about this case. Nothing at all.”They drove along in silence. They sat contemplating the rest of their day, the witness interviews and interrogations, the leads, the clues, trying to anticipate what truth each clue would lead them to. It was all impossible to predict. Neither could guess at what they were dealing with. Some kind of disease? Hypnosis? A new drug? None of it made sense. How were the murders tied to the missing children, and how were the parents involved? The questions continued to spin in a maddening blur through their heads like some indecipherable puzzle that had to be solved without even knowing what the end product was supposed to look like.Long moments passed before Detective Rafik finally broke the silence. “You think maybe there was something about this guy that made everybody want to kill him?
