GIRL TRAPPED by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-17T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Ella sped through the streets, a renewed sense of urgency in her veins. Paige sat beside her, hand clutched around the armrest in fright. Their destination was the last known location of Bret Styles, currently registered as a missing person.

According to what little information police had on their database, Bret Styles was 21 years old, unemployed, and living with his parents at the time of his disappearance. By some coincidence, or perhaps not, Bret had vanished the day following the chainsaw incident at the college. According to his parents, who had supplied his life story to the police after reporting him missing, Bret had been dishonorably discharged from the military at age 20.

“Why would he go missing?” Paige asked.

“To hide from the police. This guy might be losing his grip on reality but he’s still smart. Smart enough to stalk women and kill them without leaving a trace behind.”

“So why would he suddenly show up again after a few months? Wouldn’t he lay low a lot longer? Or move far away? Why would he come back to his home town and start killing women?”

“No. If he’s predisposed to violence, he wouldn’t be able to stay away from it.” Ella thought of some past cases for anecdotal evidence. “Look at the case of Daniel LaPlante in Massachusetts in the eighties. The teenager stalked a family, watched them for years, then got caught and sent to a psychiatric ward. The same month he got released, he killed a family in the same town. There was a large-scale manhunt for him, but he stayed in his hometown the whole time. People like this don’t know any better. Something compels them to oppose everything they know is good for them.”

“It’s up here,” Paige said, fiddling with the GPS. “23 Elm Street.”

Ella swung the car into a commodious street boasting only a handful of dwellings. Despite their spacious appearance, they didn’t look like the most well-kept houses in the world. They found house number 23, a beaten-old property that looked like it had been through the wars. The agents walked up the rickety porch and knocked on the door. Two dogs began to yap on the other side.

Bret Styles was probably not here, but that didn’t mean they wouldn’t find out something useful about him.

A haggard woman opened the door, looking about thirty pounds past the point of concern. She had razor-thin gray hair and enough wrinkles to hold a day’s rain. She had that how-dare-you-disturb-me look on her face.

“Yeah? What you want?” she moaned.

“Hi, are you Bret Styles’s mother?” said Ella.

“Who’s asking?”

“I’m Agent Dark and this is Agent Ellis. We’re with the FBI. We need to speak with your son. Is he home?”

The woman peered out from the door and checked left and right. “Well, he ain’t here. You don’t read the news so much, huh?”

“We’re aware he’s missing, but we were wondering if you might have any idea why he disappeared, or where he might have gone. This is very important.”

“You don’t think I’d have checked for my own kid?” the woman asked.

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