He was wondering when the killer was going to hit their side of town. Detective Chris Antoniadas, stocky but nimble enough to step lightly through the crime scene, had been expecting someone to get whacked in his part of town. If this killer was targeting the elderly, Sun City was an obvious choice. It was one of several cities built around the country just for retirees. Just as Canyon Lake was built around a man-made lake, the homes in Sun City were literally built around a golf course. But unlike Canyon Lake, there were no walls, no guards to check visitors and no on-site police sub-station. Most of the homes had no-maintenance lawns of decorative rock and all of the homes were one-story to allow ease of mobility among residents using canes, walkers and wheelchairs. The community service center offered shuffleboard, lawn bowling and card groups as well as an array of service clubs. It was a well-stocked pond for a killer targeting the elderly. Antoniadas had been a cop for fifteen years, the last nine as a homicide investigator for the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
