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Kurt raised an eyebrow “Where’d we get her DNA from?”

“Froer said “You had Calista’s blood all over you, not to ht in the buttons of your coat Joe pointed it out to one of the CIA techs when he got to the hospital They were sh to save the sa relatives of the Banister family”

“So the girl in this picture is Calista,” Kurt said

“Her real naer said

They looked so nor land, faked their disappearance, and started some kind of international crime family?”

“No,” Hiram said “The real story is much sadder than that As I told you, they disappeared while on vacation The father resurfaced six kok His hands were bound, his face was bruised, and he was clearly trying to escape frounned down The responsible party was never found A year after that, the bodies of the mother and the two boys were discovered”

“Where?”

“In a dilapidated lifeboat drifting off the coast of Mozambique”

Hiram passed another photo over, this one of the lifeboat as it was discovered The three bodies were covered, but there were several containers at their sides Here and there, Kurt saw patches to the rotting wooden boat and a pair of makeshift oars In one corner was a broken splint of wood and a tattered bolt of cloth that ht have been used as a mast and sail

“They died of dehydration,” Hiram explained

“No water in those containers?” Kurt asked

“Perhaps at first,” Yaeger said “But if that’s what they held, it wasn’t enough Based on the condition of the bodies, the coroner guessed they’d been in the boat for at least teeks, h water for three people for that much time Not even if those containers were filled to the brim”

Kurt looked back at the photo of the sot left behind Maybe they knew there wasn’t enough water for four and were hoping three could make it”

“Who knows,” Hira little girl in that picture has been hoever took her for almost three decades”

“She doesn’t know, does she?”