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THE PHOTOGRAPH
By the twentieth of August, it was becoming painfully clear to both Holland and Wright that the investigation into the death of Laura Kane was going nowhere fast. Apart from the medical examiner having established the cause of death as being from severe blood loss as a result of multiple stab wounds, one of which had lacerated the girl’s throat almost entirely from left to right, they were really no further forward than from the day her body had been discovered. The ME had pointed out that he considered the throat wound to have been administered from behind, and that it would have been sufficient to immobilise the girl through shock and would also have prevented her from crying out. He guessed that she would perhaps have been alive when the remaining stab wounds began
