Which means the murders were not random at all, but rather the work of someone who is trying to make them appear random. But why would the killer go to such lengths to make the murders appear random? There can only be one answer. The common denominator in the serial killings, the thread running through the crimes, has to be the killer’s unspoken theory that if he or—why not?—she appeared to select victims randomly, the police would never look past randomness for the motive, and the crimes would be impossible to solve. Which suggests that the opposite is true: Since the victims were not selected at random, one of the crimes must be easy to solve.
But which one? All Lemuel has to do is go back into the case files and look beyond randomness for a mo
