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with anyone for several days. She was murdered in 1989, apparently by electric shocks to the skull. The forensics team thought she may have been subjected to torture by some sort of powerful source of electricity before her death. The last time she was seen or heard from was a phone call to her mother, who died before her body was found.
    The fourth victim was the most shocking, and that was of a fourteen-year old boy whose name was Kieran Bradley. He was an aspiring Olympic cyclist and he had many friends in the school where he lived. He was killed in 1988, just after Eve Roberts went missing as well. He was choked to death, as forensic scientists found that several dozen cotton wool balls had been forced down his throat. He was a very popular child at school, and I found this quite surprising as he had worn glasses. I thought it was horrific when I told his parents about the discovery, and how he had died. I will never forget their faces.
    The fifth victim was an elderly lady named Elizabeth Beckett. She was eighty-three and she was an old age pensioner with three children and eight grandchildren. Over her life she had been an influential woman, as she had taught for forty years. She came to a grisly end with her limbs being chopped off. Forensics identified the murder weapon as an axe – somebody had chopped her legs off and left her to bleed to death before burying her, and this was in 1991.
    The sixth victim was also an old age pensioner, but this time he was a man. He was named Fred Lesley, and he was also a respectable member of the community. At seventy-eight, he had been a football coach and youth worker for most of his life. He was married with five children and fifteen grandchildren. He was the only victim to have been found in a box. He had been killed in 1994, and the killer simply placed him in a box while tied up, cut his teeth out, nailed the box shut and buried him, leaving him to suffocate.
    Finally, the body of a twenty-two year old man was found. He’d been missing since 1996, his name was Christopher Eggles, and he was a student training to be a surgeon. He had a very promising career ahead of him. He had a girlfriend and they were even considering getting married and having children. He was last seen leaving the university. His car was found in Minot forest, a few miles away from where his body was found. The car had crashed into a tree, but there was no trace of him whatsoever. He had been choked to death, probably by a rope. The forensic scientists were not completely sure, but they thought he had been tied up and hanged from a tree nearby.
    After having finished reading the files on each victim, I sat back a moment. Was this really happening? How could anybody in the world do this to a fellow human being? I almost cried, but I knew I needed to get my head together and focus on the case, putting my emotions to one side. After all, it was what solved the case last time for me. I knew that this case would be a tough one, as no DNA evidence was left anywhere on the scene, so I was dealing with a somewhat intelligent person, no matter how twisted or psychotic they were.
    I started looking for connections between the victims, if any. I knew from the start that each victim was completely different. They were a variety of ages, and their personalities and jobs were all different. Even the way they all died were completely different (apart from choking and strangulation, which were quite similar, and excluding the fact that they all had their teeth pulled out). They all lived in different places in Minot, and they all led different lives, so how could it be possible that the killer could be acquainted with each of them? What did all of these people have in common? It was going to be tough, so I decided to sleep on it, if I could.
     
     
     
     

Chapter 6

    I woke up the next morning not knowing where to go or what to do next. I had slept rough, as I was awake for several hours in bed, thinking about the