"Do you have his contact info?"

"No. We exchanged numbers then, but it was ages ago. With all the phone swapping, you had to save numbers manually back in the day. It's long gone." Violet asked, "You need him for something?"

Leanne said, "I wanted to ask about the case again."

Violet sighed, wanting to encourage her to move on and understanding it was easier said than done.

Leanne was so young then, witnessing the gruesome scene of her parents' demise, which must have left her with psychological trauma.

And after all these years, with the culprit still at large, how could the family move on?

are he's changed it by now." Violet

whose sister worked at the precinct,

Leanne called him, introducing herself, she half-expected him to have forgotten about a case from twenty years ago. But before she finished,

at a coffee shop, and Wilbur dressed how you would picture a retired gentleman spending his days in the park, with thick eyebrows and

"Saw your picture in the news a few days ago. You haven't

forgotten

and the spine cracked. While caressing the cover, he said, "This case remaining unsolved was one thing, but another reason was

recall the details, but you were unnaturally calm for someone your age. The things your parents had told you, what the kidnappers said during those days, the

escape from that abandoned factory, nor did she remember her demeanor before the police. They thought she was eerily calm, but her memories of that period were only a distant

wasn't calm, just a child stripped of her parents and her sense of security, too scared

we even found one of the kidnappers, though it was his body. We investigated all his

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