CHAPTER TEN
As he drove the borrowed police car to Mayor Nelson’s home just outside the town of Dighton, Jake couldn’t get yesterday’s clumsy misadventure with the media out of his mind. The memory still made him cringe.
The eager media crew had caught up with him when he was checking out the murder scene near Hyland. They’d engulfed him with their equipment, and a TV reporter had charged toward him, snapping out questions. Jake had done his best to play it by the book and not say anything that would cause a public panic.
“We don’t have sufficient information to share at this time,” he’d said when he was asked whether a serial killer was stalking this part of the state.
But the reporter had kept badgering Jake while he and the sheriff were trying to make their way to their car, demandi
