He believed they'd been..." She looked off for a moment in thought. "That they'd been defiled by the Devil." "The Devil?" "As in Satan. Mephistopheles. Beelzebub." The realization struck Martin with the force of a remembered trauma. "So Barclay wasn't after those women at all." Sheila nodded, grave-faced. "Exactly. That's where you got it wrong, Martin. He was killing their children."

