He thought he was stopping for a stray dog in the snow-until he saw what she was hiding beneath her body

side gate. Dark staining near the bottom step, too old and weather-beaten to identify by sight but too specific to ignore. Bennett documented everything, keeping his movements slow around Scout. Cal took his own photographs, not because he distrusted the deputy, but because he had learned long ago that memory was a poor substitute for proof.

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