Girl Eleven: Vanished by Molly Black

Author:Molly Black [Black, Molly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Molly Black
Published: 2024-05-09T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

“Agent Gray, Agent Spinelli, so good to see you both again!” Prof. Neiman said, as the two of them entered his office. “To what do I owe the pleasure? If this is about the dean’s email… well, the Moonlight Killer isn’t really my field. Nothing later than about 1970 for me. It’s simpler that way.”

What did Maya do when there was too much work to get through alone? It turned out that she outsourced.

“Prof. Nieman,” she said, “when we met before, you suggested that a couple of your graduate students might want to help with the work on this case. Were you serious about that?”

The white haired, older professor raised one bushy eyebrow. “Yes, of course. Nicholas and Zia would be grateful for the experience, and if I word it right to the dean, I can probably count it as an extra credit assignment for them both.”

Maya sighed with relief. It seemed that she and Marco might have a way through the list of students the lecturers shared after all. It might even work out better since a couple of grad students asking about their fellow undergraduates might get answers quicker than the FBI doing it.

“What we want your students to do is to look at the names of the students on this list and see if anything stands out about them,” Maya said. “In particular, do they have an obvious fascination with the Moonlight Killer, any grudges against Laura Gibson, Evelyn Hart or Aaron Sullivan, that kind of thing.”

“So, a practical exercise in profiling?” Prof. Nieman said.

"If you want to put it like that, yes," Maya replied.

“I do, I do. I shall have them begin at once.”

Maya shook the professor’s hand, a wave of gratitude sweeping through her. “Thank you, Professor. Take my card. Give me a call if they find anything.”

Maya and Marco left the office, Maya feeling as if a weight had been lifted from her.

“You’re sure about this?” Marco asked, looking doubtful.

Maya nodded. “It means that we don’t have to spend the whole day looking at students one by one. That doesn't feel like where we’re going to get answers in this case.”

“I’m pretty sure the FBI doesn’t usually hand its work over to grad students,” Marco pointed out.

“They’re just taking an initial pass at this. A couple of criminology grad students should be capable of looking through other students’ social media for any posts enthusing about how much they love the Moonlight Killer.”

“Plenty of people seem to, these days,” Marco said with a sigh as the two of them walked back out into the open air of the campus. “I still don’t get why people would willingly follow a psychopath like that.”

"Because he's charismatic, and he's clever," Maya said. "Because he knows how to manipulate people, and because people see what they want to, most of the time. There are people who see a serial killer, and they buy into this whole mystique of someone free from the constraints placed on them by society. They compare that to their own lives, where they have bosses and rules, and they think it's special.

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