The court case
Two weeks after Aaron Cole stumbled out of the woods with no memory and a hundred unanswered questions, he stood in a courtroom wearing a crisp gray suit and a look of manufactured calm. Jessie watched him from the back row. To anyone else, he looked composed. Polished. But she saw through it. The tightness in his jaw. The stiffness in his shoulders. The faint tremor in his left hand. He was unraveling beneath the surface, and the trial hadn’t even begun. The courtroom was packed. Reporters lined the benches, cameras clustered outside. Every headline screamed the same thing: Behavioral Analyst Turned Suspect in Copycat Murder Case The irony was lost on no one. A man who claimed to understand killers now stood accused of becoming one. The prosecution’s team filed in quietly. Detective
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