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"We’re dealing with a brazen killer who planned this very well," Logan said

"He got sloppy, though Not enough mulch over the corpse, which was left in a place the killer hadn’t really known all that well We found hairs, but judging by the color, I’ they’ll be consistent with Sandy Holly’s We’re pretty sure it was the two of the the sheets now"

"Thanks, Kat"

"I’ll keep you inforan?"

"Yes?"

"Are you going to join the unit?"

"Are you?"

"Oh, yes! Are you kidding et to run the show I’ll have funds I never dreaood old boys before You’ve been a respected Ranger"

Logan paused and then nodded "I have to ad the power to call the shots I like the e keepand pool different resources Yeah, I’ll probably take it"

He left the ue and drove to the station, anxious to hear about further developments

Alice White was an attractive woman in her mid-thirties She was cordial when she met Kelsey, and they sat at one of the café tables, sipping coffee

"I don’t know if this etically "It’s just that the ely We were at the little desks next to each other, and although he didn’t exactly hide the screen with his body, it seehtest bit interested in reading his e polite"

"What did he look like?" Kelsey asked

"A buffoon," Alice said "So much makeup--fake hair, beard,as an actor or reenactor, or tour guide I host tours, a crowd of four-year-olds would’ve thought he was hokey"

"Do you re like that?" Kelsey asked

Alice frowned, trying to remember "I think he wore contact lenses"

"Colored contacts?"

"Yes You kno contacts can catch the light in a funny way? And the color was kind of ht’ve been like blue over brown or soht? Weight?" Kelsey asked

"Ule bracelet on her arood witness Once when I was here, he caot up and walked out It was hard not to notice hi?"

"He had on some kind of trousers made out of hide, or fake hide" Alice paused "I wish I could tell youto be very helpful," Kelsey said

"There was just so so odd about him, and I’m not the only one who noticed it," Alice told her "Yet he seemed sort of familiar, too"

"In ay?"

"I’m not sure… Just an i ave uy looked at ht’"

"If I bring a sketch artist in, could you give us a description?" Kelsey asked

"I’ll do my best," Alice said "There’s a little office back there that Shelby will let us use"

Kelsey called Jane, who came over from the station immediately and sat doith Alice in Shelby’s private office, Kelsey ers as she quickly sketched and an ie appeared

"It looks like Blackbeard meets frontierher, and the eyes a little farther apart," Alice told her

Jane erased and changed, and showed Alice the picture again

"Yes, yes, that’s very close," Alice said

When they’d finished the sketch, Kelsey could see that Alice White was growing restless, glancing at her watch; she needed to pick up her children Kelsey thanked her, and let her go Jane went back to the station with the sketch so the others could see it When she’d gone, Sean caoodbye to Jane