“What else?” I asked.
“Pete and one of his guys are up there now trying to confirm this is our teenager. The mother isn't home, but they talked with the neighbor, who said that the kid takes the car all the time. In fact, he got home last night around 3 a.m. The neighbor knows this because the stereo was blasting as the kid pulled into the driveway and it woke him up. The neighbor says the kid is strange and the mother lets him run wild most of the time. He said he thought the kid spent most of his time up the hill at his uncle's place. He has a beat-up old motorcycle he uses when he isn't driving her car, and had taken off on the bike an hour or so before Pete got there.” Phil paused for a breath. “Pete was headed up the hill to the uncle's ranch to check that out. He said he was going t
