Girl, Vanished (An Ella Dark FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 5) by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2022-01-31T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Ella rushed back to the precinct with a head full of ghosts, vague ideas with the potential to fully manifest with enough energy. What she’d found in the basement had completely changed her course. Up until now, the jigsaw pieces had all been scattered to the wind, but this morning she uncovered the force that pulled them together.

They’d found coins. Thousands upon thousands of them. Barry Windham must have been a coin collector once upon a time but had since given up the hobby for whatever reason. Could this killer be targeting people in the coin collector trade? If so, how did the first two victims fit into it? That’s what she was going to find out.

In her office, she loaded up her desk with paperwork. For this, she needed physical copies, not words on a screen. Holding something in her hand helped make everything more authentic. Byford followed in after her.

“So, nothing to do with religion or sacrifice,” he said with a note of pretension. Ella was happy to admit when she was wrong, a trait a lot of people needed to adopt in her profession, she thought.

“Nothing at all. I went down a wrong path and I’m sorry.”

“I could have told you that yesterday. Oh well,” he said.

Ella wasn’t about to get into another argument with the man. Sometimes, he seemed like he had the potential to be a great partner. Other times, he made a great advertisement for working solo.

“You did, and I’m sorry I didn’t listen. But we’ve got a ton of evidence that backs this theory up, so how about we dive in and crack it open?”

Byford rested his hands on the table. “I’m with you on this one. The coin link is clear with this victim. Not so much with the others, but maybe that’s because we haven’t looked hard enough. And this 1964 link could be what helps us find this culprit.”

The 1964 link was undeniable, but Ella still didn’t know what it symbolized. These men were all different ages, so it wasn’t their birth years. It couldn’t be the unsub’s year of birth either, since that would make him almost 60 years old. A 60-year-old, no matter how healthy or athletic, couldn’t pull off the necessary guile to carry out these attacks. It was rare, almost unheard of, for a serial killer to begin their killing career so late in life.

She thought of the first two victims, a former bank manager and antiques dealer. How could she dig into their lives? If they had a link to the world of coin collecting, she needed to find it. The first victim, Alan Yates, began as a bank manager and then retired in his fifties to focus on charity work. She sifted through her papers looking for everything she had on Alan Yates, scanned it, and found no link to the coin world. Opposite her, Byford buried his head in the new reports.

Ella sat down and pulled her laptop closer. She had to go virtual to find something on him.

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