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The Jury - Chapter Three
by
Amy Sorensen
"Not another one, Emma?"
"I’m afraid so." PC Parker told Inspector Goode.
"You’ve given out warnings to the public, haven’t you?"
"Yeah, some people just don’t believe this kind of thing will happen to them. It’s terrible."
"I know. Look, you’re going out to the McCarthy’s house today, aren’t you?"
"Yeah, that’s right."
"Well, I’ll come with you. We need to get to the bottom of this."
"Thank you, Inspector."
The McCarthys had four children, three daughters and a son. The eldest, a
daughter, had been reported missing.
"It was on her way to a friend’s house. She set off this morning, at ten o’clock," explained Mr. McCarthy.
PC Parker glanced at her watch. The gold hands told her it was now five minutes to four.
"Eva was supposed to be coming home at two. Aimee, her friend, only lives three streets away so I went straight round when she didn’t turn up by half past two."
"It, it was awful," began Mrs McCarthy. "They said she’d never even arrived!"
The two parents started talking frantically at the same time. Inspector Goode calmed them down and continued the questioning.
PC Parker had had enough. She went outside
to think. It just didn’t add up. Three kids gone out of the blue. Two of them
had turned up dead and things did not look hopeful for the other. Eva was only
eleven years old. If it was true that she hadn’t
even turned up at her friend’s house, she would have been missing for almost six
hours. Something was seriously wrong and Emma Parker felt helpless in the
matter. It seemed that all she could do was send out warnings to the local
schools and parents; apart from that, they’d just have to sit back and wait
until the killer dropped some clues.
How many more children would be abducted or killed before the killer slipped up? Too many, that’s for sure.
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