Twenty-oneGrand Cayman Island › Thursday, December 4, 2008 › 18h35
The conference room at the qrcp building overlooking the wharf could not accommodate the large number of reporters all gathered on the tiny island, thanks to a serial killer. At the last minute, a meeting room and a conference hall were booked at the Grand Hotel George Town.
Sergeant Stanford had a meeting scheduled at 7:00 p.m., to be followed by a press conference in the hall, where reporters were already jostling for top spot in preparation for the biggest story since the financial crisis began. He arrived at 6:35 p.m. to a meeting room void of people and stood rubbing his goatee, scanning the windowless room. A credenza sat squarely under a white projector screen across from his position at the entrance. Atop it were
