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Kath's Diner. A classic red and white fifties theme. Alice scanned the laminated menu, opting for a roast chicken salad. She sat in a corner booth by the window, an open case file on the table while she waited for her order. Inside the file, she found a list of initial suspects the police had interviewed. People to rule out, rather than rule in.
She couldn't help skipping straight to the notes on the Homecoming Killer. Despite what she'd told Kilbride, she'd been following Brooke's disappearance for a while. It had made the national news several times, for one simple reason. Every now and again, a Mayflower high school senior went missing. It always happened before homecoming. And it always ended in a burned, dismembered torso dumped out in the open. The bodies, while charred black on
