and Katie had begun cross-checking the lists. At first it had been awkward, getting into a routine of checking one against the other, keeping track of local owners of blue trucks, along with a separate list of registered sex offenders in the parish, even though they didn’t own or drive blue trucks.The first time J.R. recognized a name on the sex offender list, he’d been shocked. It had taken further digging to realize how a teenage mistake could haunt a grown man. He remembered the incident that put the man on the list; it had happened during their senior year of high school. A friend of his who’d been on the high school football team had been dating a fifteen-year-old girl from a neighboring town. They’d gone out for several months before her parents suddenly decided he wasn’t good enough and demanded they quit seeing each other. When they were caught sneaking around together, the girl’s father filed a rape charge against the boy because the girl was underage. And it had stuck.
