One of the Good Guys
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He made the call and then stepped closer to the body while Adam hung back. “This is how you found him?” he asked the ranch foreman.
“No. He was completely covered up in hay when we came into the barn. Cassie just happened to kick at the hay mound and realized something…somebody was beneath it.” Adam grimaced. “As soon as we saw it was Sam we went back to the house to call you.”
Dillon sighed. “Round up your men and make sure they’re available for questioning later this afternoon.”
Adam nodded and took the sentence as the dismissal it was meant to be. He turned and left the barn. Once again Dillon looked at the dead man.
Sam Kelly was a local. His parents had died in a car accident several years ago and since then he’d bummed around town doing odd jobs until he’d landed here on the Holiday ranch a couple of weeks ago.
He’d been a friendly young man, easygoing and seemingly without an enemy in the world. Yet somebody had killed him and buried his body with hay.
Dillon fought the impulse to lean down and gently brush the last of the hay off the man’s face. He didn’t dare touch anything until photos had been taken and Ted had done his job.
Whoever had done this had to have known his body would be discovered when the barn was cleaned up. On the portion of Sam’s body that had been uncovered, Dillon saw no other wounds. The blood that had seeped out around the man’s head tightened Dillon’s gut.
Seven skeletons buried under the ground, each one showing deadly trauma to the back of the head. Now this, a man buried under hay with deadly trauma to the back of his head.
The similarities were hard to ignore, and Dillon’s stomach churned with acid. Was it possible a serial killer had been dormant for all these years and now had become active again? Was the murder no more than a drunken brawl turned bad or was it something far more insidious?
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One of the Good Guys
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