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It was a problem. A serious error created by careless miscalculation, but not the only one the shooter committed that night.
Today, she was no longer hiding. Today, she had become the hunter.
First were the mysterious photos discovered in her parents’ bed the night they were killed. The photos held images of three unidentified women,
In this house void of electricity and life, the grandfather clock was alive and well.
she discovered the box she had taken from the attic was not filled with her brother’s baseball card collection, but foreign bank statements instead. They became the first clue in figuring out who had killed her family.
correcting her trajectory through life was more important than arriving at some imagined utopia in the end.
That man was Roland Glazer. Over the years, Alex had meticulously researched the man to the point of obsession. The research wasn’t difficult. Roland Glazer had been all over the news. An American businessman convicted of sex trafficking of teenage girls, Glazer died in jail while awaiting trial in 2012, a couple of months before Alex’s family was killed.
The three women who had been linked to Glazer were the same women in the photos found on her parents’ bed the night they were killed.
It’s not the destination, but the journey.
Sometimes, she learned, talents were discovered without cultivating them, and goals reached without pursuing them—or even knowing they existed.
He didn’t stop Mr. Lolland that night. But as he stood in the dark shadows of the forest, he came up with a plan to make sure Jerry Lolland never hurt anyone again.
A missing girl was more interesting than a dead girl. And a dead girl was interesting only as long as her killer was on the loose. It was the sad reality of American society.
True crime had become pop culture—an ugly, circuitous guilty pleasure to which most people were so accustomed as to not even be embarrassed by it.
“You need a priest a hell of a lot more than you need a lawyer.”
But it’s not just a vendetta, it’s a personal vendetta. In all likelihood, the killer was sexually assaulted as a child.” “And he’s now taking revenge for his own sexual abuse on predators today,”
