"I swear to God, if you let them-"
"Let me finish."
~~~
The body was quickly bagged and tagged after being recovered from the frozen
vegetable garden. Boris gave me a new look of respect before he and the other handler left, taking the dogs back to someplace with real heat and running water. With the evidence-gathering complete, the rest of us packed up our gear in preparation for the trek back to civilization. This time, we had the luxury of taking a helicopter back to Fairbanks.
January 31
"Ben, I need to show you something," says Jessica, one of the FBI agents at the
Fairbanks office. "We made an ID on that body you found. This might be the break in the case you've been looking for."
~~~
"The permafrost preserved the body well enough that they were able to run facial
recogniti
