So Young, So In Love, So Dead by Rod Kackley

Author:Rod Kackley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: crime fiction police procedurals, serial killer fiction thrillers, crime fiction, mystery suspense thriller books, mystery suspense thriller series, psychological murder thrillers, suburban crime fiction, crime fiction mass murder
Publisher: Rod Kackley
Published: 2015-09-30T00:00:00+00:00

4

Years later...

“We have absolutely no reason to believe this was any kind of a cult, or any kind of an organized activity,” said St. Isidore Police Chief Barry “Lumpy” Doolan. “These are just three sad cases of teenage girls who decided to take their own lives. One slashed her wrists. Two hung themselves.

“It’s also true that several other girls were found dead of gunshot wounds, but those also seem to be the result of suicides.”

Two more questions and he’s outta here. I don’t need this. A radio reporter of all people, in my office. I didn’t know there were any of those left. How’d this one beat extinction? And here he is busting my balls over the worst case I have. What I ought to tell him is if I had a daughter, she would never get outside of our house until we solve this case. But that would shut down the town. I’d be like that cop in Jaws who closes the beaches.

I know there is a sex cult involved in this. Sadomasochism is what it is called. And I am about to bring it down. All I need is some evidence. Like if I could play the guitar and sing, I could be a rock star. If only...

Adam King had done it. The baby boomer, whose life had fallen just short of his dreams, had pushed through all of the barricades he set up for himself and cleared all of the self-erected hurdles that he had been tripping over all of his life. He had made it into Chief Doolan’s office. Adam did not have an appointment. He gave no warning. This was a total ambush. Complete profile in courage.

“Do you have any idea if this latest missing girl, Alice Barnes, could be connected to the suicides of those girls you found in the woods?”

“We aren’t even sure if those cases are connected. This latest one, this girl named Janice, is older than any of the girls who have wound up in St. Isidore Forest,” Doolan said, sarcastically doing quote signs with his fingers in the air over the last three words of his sentence.

Doolan amazed even himself with his ability to lie with a straight face to the media, which in Swinging Izzy came down to one radio station, WSIR, and a popcorn fart of a TV station. Lumpy almost believed his own crap.

Doolan treated Adam with a little more respect than he would give most reporters. After all, Adam was a member of the police department. A reserve deputy isn’t very high up on the organizational chart. But Adam was on the chart, so he deserved a little bit of respect. A little bit.

“Are you even sure this girl, Alice, is missing?” Adam said. “Couldn’t she have been kidnapped? Her car was found in the parking lot behind Fred’s, where she worked. Other employees saw her leave, but she never got home.”

“Adam, if there was anything else I could say, I would say it. Especially to you, you’re one of us.

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