Prey - 12 - Chosen Prey by John Sandford

Author:John Sandford
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Thriller
Published: 2002-04-29T01:00:00+00:00

MARCY HAD PHOTOS of Aronson’s jewelry when Lucas arrived at the office in the morning, as well as insurance photograph of Neumann’s diamond and emerald rings.

“Aronson’s parents came in this morning,” she said. “They decided they didn’t want to take a chance on the mail, so they drove down last night, stayed in a motel, and brought them in first thing.”

Lucas looked at the photos. Both the necklace and the ring had been shot against a black background, and had been enlarged to show detail. “Better than I hoped,” he said. “Get the property guys to run these around town. Paper the place.”

“That’s sorta under way,” Marcy said. “We got some copies made, and Del’s taking them around to people he knows, and he knows most of them. . . . Property’s already doing some more.”

“Okay. . . . Do you know if the state’s still working the hill?”

“They are—McGrady called. They’ve got an ID on another one of the dead women. Ellice Hampton, from Clear Lake, Iowa. She disappeared four years ago, twenty-eight. She was unemployed and living with her parents when she disappeared. She’d been working with an insurance company in Des Moines, in the advertising and publicity department. She did advertising layouts for print media and was active in community theater. She’d been looking for work in both Des Moines and Minneapolis. Blond, good-looking, small, and busty. Divorced—ex-husband was a cop in Mason City, and he’s in the clear.”

“Another artsy type.”

“That’s the impression I get. I called down Clear Lake, but they’ve got nothing at all on the case—she vanished, and her parents didn’t even know where she’d been planning to go that day, if she’d been planning to go anywhere. When they got home from their jobs, she wasn’t there, though her car was. She just never came back.”

“Is there any point in doing a list?”

“From what the Clear Lake cop said, her parents really didn’t know too much about her friends either in Des Moines or up here. They don’t even know if she had any friends up here.”

“Goddamnit.”

“He’s careful about that. He cuts the woman out of her usual crowd, moves in, must feed them some kind of bullshit to keep them from talking, and then kills them.”

“Maybe tells them he’s married or something,” Lucas said.

“Still, you’d think . . .”

“Yeah. Somebody would know.”

They thought about that for a minute, then Marcy said, “So anyway, that’s three people we’ve ID’d from the graveyard, five to go.”

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