Dario’s stories had been leading them down a dark pit for months. Now they’d found the bottom. The ultimate goal of the sect was to commit murder. To feel the thrill of that extreme perversion, to be as evil as possible. There was no other explanation. And if they’d been able to force a child to commit such a vile act, they must have done it themselves, too. Pagano and his colleagues started rooting through missing person archives.

