Part 3 — The Amount Typed In The number typed on the line marked AMOUNT was two hundred and ten thousand dollars. Every cent of what Dot and I saved …

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Part 3 — Four Blocks Away The address on the detectives laptop was a gray house on Elm Street, four blocks from my front door. I had walked past it …

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Part 3 — Name On The Policy The beneficiary on my seven hundred fifty thousand dollar policy was a woman named Rosalie Kemp, and she was listed as my sister. …

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Part 3 — Who Brandon Really Was The sergeant slid the folder across the table. The man my daughter called Brandon was named Garrett Pruitt, forty-four, wanted in two counties …

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Part 3 — Whose Name Was Listed The detective cleared his throat. The new phone on my account was registered to a woman named Tiffany Dunn, age twenty-six, of Bradenton. …

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Part 3 — The Lab Results I stood in my own driveway with the phone against my ear. Dr. Okafors nurse said it plainly. The capsule did not contain fish …

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Part 3 — What The Hem Held Inside the hem, wrapped flat in plastic, were three things. A small savings passbook, a sealed envelope, and a photograph of a baby …

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Part 3 — What Junie Carried I put Junie in the front seat of my car, took the back roads, and called the York police non-emergency line from a gas …

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Part 3 — The Second Gate The man who signed the refusal every time was the foundry plant manager in 1994, a man named Dale Vickery. By the time of …

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Part 3 — Under The Rocket Pops Wrapped in that bread bag was a thick brown ledger, a disposable camera, and a legal envelope sealed with packing tape. I sat …

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