So Long by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2023-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

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They reached the station just as the sun began to heat the day. They walked inside and Michael headed straight to the coffeemaker at the back of the room and poured himself a cup. He called to Faith, “You want one?” and she gave him a thumbs-up and walked into the sheriff’s office.

LaCroix’s eyes were puffy, and she had a feeling that his cup of coffee wasn’t his first. He seemed alert enough when he nodded to her, though, and his voice was even and strong when he spoke. He might not be the most capable sheriff in the world, but he was no stranger to hard work.

“We’re mapping out the wells like you asked,” he said. “But there’s a problem.”

“What’s the problem?” Faith asked.

“Some of the wells around here are old. Well over a hundred years old. A lot of them are not in use but are still open. I had Deputy Faro look through old records at the county courthouse and there’s nothing that might help us find the wells that aren’t in use anymore.”

“Meaning the killer could still use them to dump bodies but we might never find them because we don’t know where to look.”

“Exactly.”

Michael walked in and handed a cup of coffee to Faith before taking the chair next to hers and placing a cup of water in front of Turk. “What did I miss?” he asked.

“I was just telling Special Agent Bold that there are a lot of unmarked wells in the area whose locations we don’t know that the killer could be using while we check out the known wells,” LaCroix explained.

Michael sipped his coffee and offered a small sigh of satisfaction before shaking his head. “I doubt it. Serial killers don’t always want to get caught, but they want people to find their victims. They want the ego boost of stumping the cops and frightening civilians. I’d bet anything this guy wants us to find the next victim. Have you checked all of the marked wells yet?”

“Not yet,” LaCroix said. “We won’t be done for a week at least. The ones we’ve found so far are empty.”

“Keep looking. Something will turn up,” Michael said.

He grimaced a little as he said it, and Faith could understand. Obviously, it wouldn’t be a good thing for another body to show up, but without one, they were dead in the water in this investigation.

That worried Faith. Maybe their killer needed the ego boost Michael described, but he had managed to leave very little evidence behind with Jenna and Tammy. He clearly valued his anonymity. Maybe he would prefer to deposit his victims somewhere more public, but it was possible he would be willing to play the long game and dump his victims somewhere the sheriff didn’t know about and just wait for the missing posters to show up to receive whatever sick satisfaction someone who buried people alive in wells got from knowing that they had destroyed lives and happiness once more.

Maybe part of what he enjoyed was knowing that he was easily fooling them.

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