The Cascade Killer (Luke McCain Mysteries Book 1) by Rob Phillips

Author:Rob Phillips [Phillips, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Latah Books
Published: 2020-10-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

McCain ran up Highway 410 about fifteen miles and turned right onto Bald Mountain Road, an arterial that led up to several different Forest Service roads, including a couple that dropped back down into the Wenas. While it certainly wasn’t the only road off the highway up into the mountains, McCain thought it was the most popular because it was in the best shape. He’d seen sedans and SUVs up the road plenty of times, including some sheep hunters who were up there on Cleman Mountain in a BMW sedan of all things.

He drove up the gravel road a ways, found a good turn out, and pulled over to eat the sandwich he’d packed for supper. He hopped out, let Jack out, went to the back of the truck, dropped the tailgate and jumped up to sit and eat. Normally Jack would have been off in a flash to chase chipmunks and squirrels, but the dog had more pressing matters on his mind. Right now, there was a chance for a piece of turkey out of the sandwich that smelled so good.

“You’re not a hunting dog, you’re a chow hound,” McCain said, and gave Jack a bite of the sandwich which he immediately gobbled up without being chewed. “You didn’t even taste that.”

While he ate he thought more about Mr. Chad Burke. He kept forgetting to ask Sinclair the size of the boot print at the place where they found the skull and bones. And he wondered if Sinclair had asked about any other missing women around the West that might fit the same description of those that had been found in the Cascades.

While the Green River Killer’s victims were mostly found along the Green River and near SeaTac Airport south of Seattle, he did dump two bodies close to Portland, Oregon. And Ted Bundy went from murdering women in Washington State to Florida where he killed several more. If the man doing the killings was new to the area, it was possible he could have killed and dumped bodies somewhere else.

The other thing the FBI was good at was putting a profiler on the case, so McCain figured they were trying to get inside the killer’s head. One thing McCain knew, or thought he knew, was that the killer was possibly removing the hearts from his victims before he dumped them. The psychologists would be analyzing that one for sure.

Did the killer’s first girlfriend, a slender gal with long black hair, break his heart? Was the guy saving the hearts as a memento of each woman?

He again thought of Burke and wished he knew the guy’s shoe size. Something about the track at the site of the bones was of real interest to him. He’d bug Sinclair about it for sure.

Jack had been back to the truck a couple times to check on McCain, but he was off somewhere when McCain decided it was time to move on up the road. He whistled for the dog and within a minute Jack was there, ready to jump into the truck.

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