Watch Her Disappear: A totally gripping crime thriller packed with mystery and suspense by Lisa Regan

Author:Lisa Regan [Regan, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bookouture

Thirty-Three

Back at the stationhouse, Mettner and Gretchen sat at their desks, tapping away at their computers. It was late in the evening and Amber had left for the day. Josie, Noah and the Chief joined them, bearing gifts of coffee and pastries because the day was about to get longer than it already felt. Noah handed out coffees and set the plastic container of pastries in the center of their combined desks as Josie collapsed into her chair. The Chief paced round and round their desks, arms folded over his chest, his face an alarming shade of red.

“This can’t be good,” Gretchen said as she stood and leaned across the surface of her desk to snag a pecan tartlet.

Josie opened the file that Detective Heather Loughlin had made for them, scanning pages, while Noah gave Gretchen and Mettner a rundown of the Sabrina Beck autopsy, including the strange finding of deer blood on her corpse.

“Wherever she was being held, she was around deer blood,” said Mettner. “The killer is a hunter, don’t you think? The dimensions of the knife that these girls were stabbed with matches the dimensions of many caping knives.”

Gretchen said, “What’s a caping knife?”

“Part of a field dressing kit,” Mettner answered. “Every deer hunter has one. They use the kit for when they have to field-dress—gut—a deer. There are usually a few different items, depending on the type and brand of field dressing kit and where they bought it, but the caping knife is pretty common among deer hunters.”

“This killer would be a poacher, though,” said Noah. “Deer hunting opens in the fall. The only thing open right now is Spring Gobbler.”

Josie said, “We could still be looking at a hunter. A lot of people hunt out of season. If they’re on their own property and no one reports them to the game commission, who’s to know?”

Mettner said, “A remote property would make a lot of sense, especially if he is keeping these girls for months.”

“The problem with that,” sighed Gretchen, “is that everyone and their brother and their mother hunts in the area. And if he’s doing it without a license, there’s no way to track him.”

The Chief said, “But you can pull hunting licenses, can’t you? From all over the state?”

“We can try,” said Mettner. “I can get a warrant for them—at least the ones in Alcott County. The issue is how we narrow that list, because it’s going to be long.”

“We know this guy was active twenty-five years ago,” Josie said as she flipped more pages in the file in front of her. “Assuming that he was, at the youngest, eighteen at that time, he would have to be forty-three now at an absolute minimum. I think he skews older than that though, given the sophistication we saw in Kelsey’s case and the fact that she was his second victim, if we’re right about the slashes on the victims’ arms.”

“Right,” agreed Noah. “He had her for almost five months. He would have to have had a place and the means to keep her—and any other victims.

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