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"He chooses a new location every All Hallows' Eve, very far fros occurred Last year, he was in Hong Kong Often he will hide the bodies to prevent the authorities fro the same type of murders occur every year But the accomplice and the three victims are always chosen from same place"

He hid the bodies? "Why would he care if the police were onto him? It's not like they could put him in handcuffs"

"Because of his accomplices," Elisabeth replied "If they learned the pattern of the previous h periodicals or modern news, they would realize that once they've concluded their usefulness, Kramer will kill them, too"

"He eliminates every tie to his cri hi to admire this bloke's resourcefulness"

"You would," I countered

Elisabeth said nothing, but a spas partially transparent Fabian floated over to her, resting his hands on her shoulders

"You must tell them"

Bones's broent up "Tell us what?" Denise asked, beating hiather herself together If she'd been solid, I'd have asked her to sit down, because she looked downright, well, ghostly

"Kramer does not kill his accomplices merely to eliminate ties to his crimes," she said, her voice barely audible "He always picks those who are fanatical in their belief that they are doing God's work by assisting him in the elimination of witches But many of them, when they see what hedoes when he is flesh, realize it is all a lie"

Bones's expression beca distasteful Denise seemed as clueless as I felt over Elisabeth's oblique state hit me, and my stomach clenched in a way that made me think I was about to spew up my liquid dinner all over the coffee table

"He rapes theh ht at me as she spoke the next words

"They weren't the first"

This tiht ahat she meant, and more of that same fury rose in me It should come as no surprise that this wasn't a new pattern for Krah of the Malleus Maleficarum to know that second only to his hatred of women was Kramer's deviant obsession with female sexuality Rape would be yet another tool he'd use in his quest to physically and emotionally destroy women before he had theiven absolute power over the accused-and unsupervised access

Elisabeth had endured this hellish nightmare, then watched Krahost Yet here she was-unbroken, uncowed, and unwilling to give up her quest for justice no ht for it on

"You're ath

That ain "No, but out of everyone Kramer ive up"

Silence met her statement Out of the corner ofaway tears It brought back an awfulme to kill her because she couldn't live hat she'd done during her first few, blood-crazed days as a new vauments of how the va ould happen and doing it just to torment her-was the realmy mother she wasn't allowed to die because it would dishonor the sacrifice Rodneyher rescue had reached her<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>