Vendetta by Lisa Harris

Author:Lisa Harris [Harris, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: FIC042060, FIC042040, FIC027110
ISBN: 9781493400454
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2015-08-21T04:00:00+00:00

Two hours later, they were set up at the dining room table, still going through the dozens of files, police reports, lists of evidence, and notes Sam had. Thanks to adrenaline and unlimited refills of coffee, exhaustion had been shoved to the back burner for the moment.

“We always thought there might be a connection between all the girls,” Nikki told Tyler, as they continued through the files. “But we never found it.”

“I cross-checked every connection I could think of, but you’re right,” Sam said. “There was never anything.”

“After all these years, I’m wondering if it’s even possible to find anything new,” Irene said, topping off her husband’s half-empty mug. “I can’t tell you how many late nights Sam has pored over these files, and I know you’ve done the same thing, Nikki. If there was something to find, don’t you think you would have already found it?”

“Probably, but we have to be missing something. We never found him.”

“I know it’s believed he stalked his victims, but is there any evidence that they knew him?” Tyler asked, drumming his fingers against the table.

“Not that we know of,” Sam said. “But like Nikki said, we never found a common denominator between all the girls.”

Nikki leaned back in her chair and tried to stretch out the tight muscles in her neck. “Bridget’s abductor contacted her via social media, and she developed an emotional attachment. But we still don’t know if she was just a random victim or if he chose her specifically. If it is the same abductor, he’s changed along with the advances in technology.”

“How long did he keep the girls alive?” Tyler asked, opening up another file.

“The longest was . . .” Sam looked to Nikki. “Two days?”

“Except for Jessica Wright,” Nikki said, wishing sometimes that the details weren’t so readily available. “She went missing after school on June 15 and was found dead five days later. But the autopsy revealed she’d been killed two days before.”

“In their investigation, the authorities came to the conclusion that the abductor had chosen his victims ahead of time. The problem was that we don’t know what kind of contact—if any—he’d had with the girls ahead of time, because he killed them all.”

Nikki tapped her fingers against the table. Something niggled in the back of her mind. Cases lined up over the years tried to blur, but she’d kept meticulous notes and files and read every line of every report. She’d also made detailed profiles of abductors and serial killers. Some were able to hide in plain sight with jobs, homes, and sometimes even families. Some fit the profiles; others, not so much. But they weren’t all white males, just like most of them weren’t the insane, evil geniuses Hollywood often portrayed.

“What if that isn’t true? What if he didn’t kill them all?” she asked finally.

“What do you mean?” Tyler asked.

“There was a girl who was kidnapped about six months before Sarah vanished.” Nikki looked up at Sam. “You led the investigation. She managed to escape from her captor.

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