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CAITLIN
“The child was a girl, two weeks shy of her sixth birthday,” Jack said, reading the information from his notebook computer. “Name, Samantha Peterson. Parents, Catherine and James Peterson. They’d been trying to conceive for almost eight years when they opted for the in vitro route. The OB-GYN’s name, Dr. Peter Feinberg. The in vitro was performed at the Small Miracles clinic in Palo Alto, California.”
“Did you cross reference the other missing children?” I asked. For the past three months, we’d been hitting dead ends, and my frustration was growing with each passing day. I was a perfectionist. I didn’t take failure well.
Jack nodded. “And that’s the weird part.”
I perked up. “Weird how?”
“There were ten child abductions in that area in the past year,” he started. “Of the t
