“No clues at all? No one saw anything?”
“Oh, everyone claimed to have seen something. Someone said they saw a girl running through a wheat field two miles east of town. One farmer said he saw a crop duster flying by, out of season. Someone else saw strange lights in the sky. If you talk to ten people, you’ll get ten different stories. But the KBI checked out every lead.”
I scribbled on my notepad.
“If she ran away, she had help,” Bry said. “If it was foul play, well… There were three main suspects. Her parents, of course—you always have to look at the family. Then there was her boyfriend, Buck McCaffery. Finally, this weird old guy from the BillieBurger: Mort Devers. He always showed up during her shift and stared at her. He’d leave a ten dollar tip on a ten dollar tab.”
“And I guess t
