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"I'm sorry to tell you, but this isn't your man. He's too young to be your victim. Twenty years old tops. And I have a feeling he's been in that water for a lot longer than you've been looking." She's holding back, giving Christine time to process the new information, but also because it's so awful she doesn't want to say the words.
"Chris?" She waits for her partner to answer, until she's looking at June and not at the set of bones on the gurney. "The markings at the points where ligaments used to be? Chris, someone pulled this kid apart. He was tortured. You have a second, possibly unrelated, case here. I think you need to go back there." The man they were looking for could still be in the water, but if they pulled one body looking for him, how many bodies were in that lake?











