Chapter 4

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Most people would love to have their name in the paper as someone who knew the victim of a crime. Why did Mr. Wright shy away? Reid pondered that as he drove back to the paper to write and file his story. Is he camera shy, so to speak? Or is there something he’s hiding.

Reid was a good reporter with a nose for a story, and he sensed there might be one in Michael Wright. Perhaps nothing to do with the murder, per se, but something.

After he turned in the story, he went online to do a search on the man.

“Nothing before six years ago, when he arrived in town to go to work at his mother’s costume shop,” he said under his breath, when that was all that he could turn up.