Chapter 37

The frats were never discovered, alive or dead. The case stood pending at the FBI and the Roth police department. For the last year, vigils at the college by students were being carried out every Saturday evening during the school’s semesters. Letters of concern by Roth parents and students inundated the frats’ families. The parents of the missing were on such cable shows as Dr. Phil, 20/20, and 60 Minutes. Truth said, the nation grieved over the whereabouts and/or losses of the three young men.

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Damian sat behind the Frontier’s steering wheel, driving them past Boardman and to Ashtabula, Ohio. A recent sketch that Damian created read Ashta, which some residents of the town used, shortening its name from Ashtabula. He also wrote the wordLockland, a suburb of Ashtabula. He drew a meadow, the shovel again, and one body reclined over a second body.

He told Damian, “The bodies we are looking for are buried there. It’s where we need to be.”

“You never let us down, man.”