The speculation sent waves of nausea and chills through everyone present. According to Charlie and George's theory, one of the reasons the deranged killer dismembered the victims was to conceal the fact that he had been eating human flesh.
The brutality of the murders alone was horrifying enough, but the added possibility of cannibalism pushed their fear of this psychopath to its breaking point. Everyone's faces turned pale with terror—everyone's, except for Lucas's. He watched their frightened reactions with a twisted sense of delight, his expression radiating an unsettling satisfaction.
The remaining autopsy work was left entirely to George. It mainly involved minor details, such as determining the time of death and analyzing faint traces of evidence. These were things the group had al
