Sam was determined—not obsessed, thank you very much—to prove that her mother was one of the Butcher’s victims. There were several similarities. Sarah Marquez had also been raped vaginally and anally, both with and without a blunt object, and strangled to death. She’d been found in the woods a few minutes outside Olympia, Washington, buried in a shallow grave covered with leaves. In Sam’s professional—yet determined—opinion, this was more than enough to explore the Butcher as Sarah’s murderer.
