The Woodsman (The Jackson Clay & Bear Beauchamp Series Book 1) by B.C. Lienesch

Author:B.C. Lienesch [Lienesch, B.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carpe Creative, LLC
Published: 2021-07-19T16:00:00+00:00

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Jackson was wide awake and staring at the ceiling of his motel room when his alarm went off at 4:30 the following morning. Sleep had eluded him most of the night as he thought about Olivia Isaacs and why no one had considered a possible connection before. Maybe there was something about the Isaacs case he didn’t know that ruled out a connection. Either way, he had to find out.

It was too early to expect Detective Bailey to have the case files ready for him just as it was probably too early to pay Jeff Isaacs another visit. He rolled out of his bed, started making coffee in the little coffeemaker in the bathroom and sat down at his laptop.

After double checking that Bailey had not sent him anything, he brought up Google and searched for Olivia Isaacs. A slew of articles came up. Jackson clicked through them one by one and read about her disappearance.

Olivia Isaacs disappeared some time during the afternoon of May 6, 2012 shortly after her high school had let out for the day. She was 15 years old at the time. According to an article in the Daily News-Record, a Harrisonburg-based newspaper, Olivia regularly walked the mile and a half home from school. On the afternoon of May 6, though, a thunderstorm had blown through, leading some to speculate that she’d accepted an offer of a ride. But it seemed that was pretty much anything anyone had. Suppositions and theories. Without tangible leads, the case must’ve gone cold.

A separate article in the Daily News-Record focused on Jeff Isaacs, the grieving father who was starting an organization for fellow grieving parents. The article mentioned how he hoped the organization would create more attention for missing kids, starting with Olivia. The article was framed in the light of new hope and optimism for Olivia’s case and others. Reading it with the knowledge of how everything ends made it all the sadder, Jackson thought.

He spent the better part of the next hour reading articles with largely the same information. Even when he found the website for PACTV, which admittedly hadn’t been kept up very well, the About Us section shared little he hadn’t read somewhere else. It all painted the picture in broad strokes for Jackson. Now he wanted the finer points.

He checked his watch. It was almost six. Going to the window, he pulled back the curtains and watched the city outside. The sky was just starting to fill with the light of a coming day. He wondered how soon was too soon to visit Jeff Isaacs. Maybe if he took his time grabbing some breakfast, it would be long enough. He was thinking about it as his phone buzzed from across the motel room.

He expected it to be Bailey calling in with the information, but as he picked up the phone, the Caller ID didn’t say Bailey. It was Detective Cole.

“Morning, Det—” Jackson began to say before Detective Cole cut him off.

“Clay,” she said in angry exasperation, “Tell me you did not contact the family.

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