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Later that afternoon, Dexter came into Caroline’s office with a notebook and a stack of printed papers.
‘Alright,’ he said, ‘I’ve been going through the records looking for any evidence that Tom Medland might not have been the first victim. I’ll be honest, there’s nothing that seems to fit the bill. Even in the past five years there’s only been a tiny handful of suicides in the county, and none with any connection to Tom Medland, Guy Sherman or Megan Wilkes, so far as I can tell. These are the names,’ he said, passing a sheet of paper to Caroline. ‘I’ve done what I can in looking at things like ages, backgrounds, schooling, employment records. No patterns I can make out at all, and no connections with our victims. In fact, we’ve got to go back eighteen years before there’s even anyone
