Fuller could have done without ever having to come back to the house, let alone that night. He also could have done without Gardner telling him, “I told you so,” during the entire drive.
It wasn’t any of the house’s occupants who had called. It was Constable Venner, who had been guarding the second-floor bedroom. Fuller could hear the shaking in her voice. She could barely get the words out as she spoke. Being a cop in Toronto for almost three decades, Fuller had experienced fear and he had seen a lot of officers in situations that scared them. But he couldn’t remember any of them being as afraid as Venner sounded on the phone.
He’d seen a lot in his time with the OPP. He’d seen enough murder victims to last him several lifetimes. But when he saw the mutilated body on the third floor of
