Chapter 16
Four months later …
The Ukrainian officials had closed their investigation on Wasyl Boiko’s death three weeks after it began because they lacked evidence that anything other than the alleged wolf attack had killed him. Law enforcement in the area had little money to perform investigations to begin with, and even less experience in strange deaths. It was easier to agree he’d been attacked by wolves as witnessed by two other students, and to let it go at that. No autopsy had been performed. Several of the police said they’d never seen a wolf attack look the way Wasyl’s body did, but the higher-ups decided it was prudent to ignore such observations.
Since the snows had already begun, as soon as the dig team was allowed to leave, they did.
Now, in mid-March, with the danger of h
