Chapter 34
Riley was awakened by Lucy charging through the door between their adjoining hotel rooms.
“Turn on your TV!” Lucy cried.
Riley yanked herself to a sitting position. “What?” she asked. She saw that it was morning. She and Bill had gotten back to Albany last night. In the other bed, April growled sleepily, “What’s going on?”
“I’ll get it,” Lucy said. She found the clicker and turned the television on herself. The first words Riley heard were those of a news announcer.
“We must warn our viewers that some of the images you’re about to see are graphic.”
Riley immediately saw that the announcer really meant it. The first image was of a chain-bound body dangling from a tree branch. Mercifully, the body was facing away from the camera.
The announcer continued, “A woman was brutal
