章 16: Chapter 16

If he could ferret out the connection, he’d understand how the psycho thought. Or what he hoped to gain from the crimes. It would be a hell of a lot easier to find his identity with that kind of information, especially since forensic evidence was sorely lacking.

Mazursky was convinced it had to be an outsider. In his opinion, the shock expressed by her family and close friends was genuine. Brendan trusted Mazursky’s gut, but he wouldn’t dismiss anyone until he had solid alibis in hand. Or rather, until Chief had alibis in hand.

When he got tired of trying to find out where he fit in Gilda’s unremarkable life, he read through old case files, looking for commonalities with the town, with her, with tattoos, with anything. In two days of searching, he found exactly nothing. He put calls out to find out who might have been released from jail, or if anybody had been heard making threats toward him, but by Friday afternoon, he’d only heard from a handful of his contacts.