CHAPTER EIGHT I decided to grab some takeout and spend the night going over some more of the information in the boxes. After my interview with Robert Cutler, and the phone call with Paul Jackson, I was keen to work out possible areas close to the family farmhouse where he could have buried her body, convinced he hadn’t thrown her into the river. Like Jackson stated, taking a gamble that the girl’s body would be wedged under a fallen tree in the river seemed too risky. The lack of evidence pointed to great organization, but noticing how messy his desk looked, Cutler didn’t strike me as a meticulous, systematic killer. Given time, I felt certain I would come across a sloppy mistake somewhere. His character was turning out to be very contradictory, and although far from being an expert on

