Chapter 145

“Still alive…” Colin pushed past the onlookers and rushed over to check the man’s pulse, “But beyond saving…”

Robin punched in 911.

Dexter was visibly shaken by the gruesome scene, instinctively stepping back a few paces.

The others ran outside, likely losing their lunch, and the scene was all but trashed,

“He timed this guy’s death to the minute…” Colin crouched by the body, his voice edged with panic. “He knew when we’d arrive, when we’d find him. He wanted us to watch this man die…”

Just like what happened to Phoebe.

Numbly, I stepped forward to look at the corpse. “It’s the husband of the orphanage’s director.”

I had seen this man in Colin’s photographs.

“To stuff a big, middle–aged man into a shoe cabinet…” Robin spoke in a grave tone. “The murderer has to be an adult, someone strong.”

That would be the only way to move the body, to stuff a man not yet fully dead into such a small

space.

there himself.” Colin pointed at the footprints, now smudged beyond recognition by Dexter and his crew. “There’s only one set

camera, facial recognition is useless. Can’t ID him.” The man I’d seen at my house that day had

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murderer is too clever,” Robin admitted, clearly

murderer.

out of your mind?” I snapped back to reality, glaring at Dexter. “What the

by my question. “These are

him and slapped him across the

told you, this property is mine now. The ones trespassing are you

good explanation for moving furniture at this ungodly hour, or I’ll have every reason to suspect

Chapter 145

her spirit restless. He told me to burn her familiar

Dexter, Mr. Rational, suddenly

“This

a bit

come across this psychic?” Robin probed further.

the cemetery today,” Dexter

visited Phoebe’s grave again today.

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