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NICK HAD BEEN STARING at the files for three days straight.
8/4/89 - Hannah Theobaud, kidnapped from her family home, no leads, no witnesses, body found eight days later, strangled, no sign of s****l assault.
7/18/76 - Adam Bevan, murdered in his recently remodeled family room basement, case pending due to evidence tampering.
1/3/00 - Uki Huraka, raped in an alley in Little Tokyo, bled to death internally, no DNA evidence.
The list went on and on. He was flooded with a sea of unsolved crimes in no particular order and still wasn’t sure if he was supposed to be organizing them chronologically, alphabetically, or by offense.
Nick started making a series of piles around his desk, trying not to become completely exasperated by the process, knowing each one of the folders he p
