Wednesday 11 September 2024

Closer To Home 2 (Pages 44 - 125)


 SPOILERS!!!

All the leads go nowhere. Aleah's father is unlikely to have anything to do with her death. The other two possible suspects are Aleah's birth father and the man who led the search, Ken Fowler. Aleah's father was supposed to be working in a rig in Scotland, but Kate discovers that he is not. They find him in Sheffield with his new girlfriend, but his alibi is checked and proves him innocent. And Ken Fowler has a land rover, where Aleah's body may have been kept, but after examining it Hollis knows it is not the vehicle.

During the postmortem a chain and a pendant with a T-shape is found. This is something that did not belong to Aleah, and Kate and her team are inclined to think that it may be a religious symbol planted by the murderer for some reason. 

Then another child goes missing. This time it is four-year-old Callum Goodwin. There seems no connection between the two families other than the fact they live in Thorpe. Then Sam Cooper finds an article from 1974 about a girl who died in the ventilation shafts of the old mine, roughly much in the same place where Aleah was found. It is the girl from the prologue, Tracy. Kate thinks that the T in the pendant may be connected to Tracy's death, and she wants to investigate this lead, but her boss Raymond thinks that it is not logic to find the key to the murder of Aleah in a death that happened forty years ago. 

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