About forty minutes after Zach returned to the office, a call came in from one of the deputies out looking for the Benedict and Hendricks boys. Sure enough, not only had they still been out joyriding, they'd also been drinking and had a half-full bag of m*******a with them as well as floor mats full of ash. And in the bed of the pickup, the deputies found an empty can of kerosene and bits of fresh horse manure. Both boys had been brought in and processed. The next day, Laney's neighbor would be asked to pick them out of a lineup, adding even more to the case against them. Mick Wilding had been woken up by an angry mayor and was already trying to explain the benefits of a plea bargain, which would include therapy and anger management sessions, as well as a little time at a juvenile facility
