CHAPTER FOUR Nathan, Annie, and Ben met up again in the conference room at eight a.m. for a final run-through of the data. Wise County had expedited both the coroner's report and case file for the fourth victim, and the first order of business was to log those details on to the whiteboard next to the others. "Looking at all this," Nathan said when Annie finished updating the board, "my gut says two things. One, that the third murder was definitely committed by someone else attempting to hide what they've done by mimicking these other cases, and two, that the suspect in the other three homicides is most likely a female." "A female? What makes you say that?" "The residue. Washing a body in that manner just strikes me as something a female would think of, not a male. It speaks to a cover

