Chapter 113

“These are cold cases,” Gene replied. “Some of them as much as forty or fifty years old. We do our research, meet with those people who are willing to talk with us, as well as the police officers involved, and do more research to try to verify everything we’ve been told. Then we lay out the reasons one or more persons might have had a good reason to eliminate the victim, based on what we’ve learned. In a way it’s like a chess game. Move the right piece to the right square and you could reach mate or checkmate—or not if some piece of information is missing and you can only deduce what it is from what you rsquo;ve learned.nrdquo;

“As I said, we don’t name names.” Van smiled dryly. “We’re not into getting our asses sued for defamation of character.” He blew out a long breath. “We weren’t, anyway. Now, it’s a moot point since there won’t beanother book.”