Moreno was asking Harrow, “How does it feel, getting an early pickup for a third season?”
“Gratifying,” Harrow said. “The team’s worked hard so far this season, but we never expected to wrap up our first case in three weeks. Still, we’ll have something special ready for November sweeps.”
Jenny shook her head. What could they possibly do to top their first three shows?
“You’d be considered a hero just for stopping Gabriel Shelton,” Moreno said. “Yet you’ve kept digging, working to put away the men who wronged the killer of your own family. Why would you do such a thing?”
Harrow paused. Then: “Shelton’s family were the first innocent victims. They deserved justice too. Also... he said something odd to me, that’s stayed with me — he said I’d ‘come to his rescue.’ Maybe in a way I did.”
Chris Anderson came up the aisle and plopped into the seat next to Jenny. They hadn’t dated or anything, but Carmen and Laurene might be right — Chris did seem to like her. He took her hand.
She shook free from him and said, “Not yet.”
“What?” Chris said in his lazy way. “I was just bein’ friendly.”
Out the windshield, Jenny saw what she’d been looking for since they left Lebanon — a sign that said WELCOME TO COLORADO.
Sitting back, smiling, Jenny took Chris’s hand in hers.
“Now it’s okay?” he asked, clearly bewildered.
“Sure.” Her smile widened. “We’re not in Kansas anymore.”
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Thanks to crime scene analyst Chris Kauffman, CLPE, retired lieutenant of the Bettendorf (Iowa) Police Department, who has been so much help to the authors in the past. Thanks also to computer forensics investigator Paul Van Steenhuyse, retired lieutenant, Scott County (Iowa) Sheriff’s Office.
Insights were also provided by profiler Steven R. Conlon, retired Assistant Director, Division of Criminal Investigation for the State of Iowa Department of Public Safety; and Matthew T. Schwarz, CLPE, Identification Bureau manager, Davenport (Iowa) Police Department. For behind-the-scenes TV production matters, we were helped by our longtime film and video collaborator, Phillip W. Dingeldein.
Among books consulted were: Practical Homicide Investigation (1996), Vernon J. Geberth; The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (2000), Michael Newton; Mind-hunter (1995), John Douglas and Mark Olshaker; In the Minds of Murderers (2007), Paul Roland; and Profile of a Criminal Mind (2003), Brian Innes.
Special thanks are due the following: our editor, Michaela Hamilton, who was enthusiastic from the start and supportive throughout; agent Dominick Abel, for his friendship and professionalism; and our wives, Barb and Pam, in-house editors and support systems.