Unexpectedly, the County approved all the renovations requested at Talbot House. However, the crime scene investigators had not released her property, so work could still not proceed. Sara worried about living at Talbot House again. She wouldn"t be alone during the daytime with construction laborers crawling over the place. But before she spent another solitary hour in that house at night, she decided to install a state-of-the-art burglar alarm system. She detested feeling threatened. If Pierce were the serial killer and arrested, she would be safe. In her heart, she knew he was innocent. With news spreading as fast as it did in the Delta, locals would know when they completed the investigation at Talbot House. It would be a perfect cover-up for the real killer to come back and find her a

