A Killer's Daughter
Jenna Kernan
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“What Nadine recalled was that her mother had come home late on Sunday, used the garden hose to wash herself and shoved her wet clothing in a large black garbage bag with whatever else was in there. Nadine had watched from inside the trailer, terrified. When ordered to throw that bag away, Nadine had done as she’d been told—suspicious, but refusing to look in the bag. Nadine had waited for the police to come and arrest her mother, frightened and hopeful. But they never came. If they even questioned Arleen, Nadine didn’t see them. Did they think a woman couldn’t do such a thing? They were wrong.”
“Was he thinking serial killer? She was but did not want to voice that opinion yet. This was different and the same. Very much the same as Gail and Charlie, her mother’s superiors, made inferior by Arleen’s knife. Her mom’s killing streak ran for twelve years, and would have continued indefinitely, if she had not taken Nadine’s classmate. Right after Nadine had told her mom that Sandra was terrorizing her, the high school senior went missing.”
“There was no mistake. The area on the map was a match for Dr. Margery Crean’s home residence, a five-acre plot that included several outbuildings and a dog kennel. How had she missed this?”
“The small hairs on her arms and neck lifted as she stared at the blank spot on her map, where the kill site of her classmate showed through from beneath. They recovered Sandra and Mr. White’s bodies where she had held them captive for days. There was no body dump because the police arrested Arleen before she could move her final victims. And just like that, she knew where they’d be. With that information came the possibility that she could save them.”
“The article reported that sheriffs recovered Louder’s nude body two days after her disappearance and her husband’s tearful pleas for her safe return. Her death was not immediately connected to the earlier double homicide, and her husband had been falsely convicted for her murder. Even when a forest ranger, Drew Henderson, had been found butchered in his vehicle with a length of cord on his wrist, matching the one tied to Louder, the connection was not made to Louder or the earlier unsolved homicides. Only after Arleen’s confession was Louder’s husband released from prison, his sentence overturned.”
“Sometimes she wished she didn’t have to hide. But she preferred it to being hunted by reporters again. Worse still, revealing who she was now would take necessary resources and attention away from this case. She wasn’t having that. Focus must stay on the victims and catching this killer.”
“Nadine’s photo had been on the national news and in all the newspapers. She was the famous daughter of the infamous killer. The girl who had turned her own mother in to the police.”
“Nadine would never forget this death because it had been her eighth birthday. Arleen had come home late, striding into the trailer in wet underwear carrying a boxed cake so warm the frosted flowers had melted off the top. To this day, those innocuous cake boxes with the clear-plastic tops made Nadine’s stomach clench.”
“Nadine walked with calm assurance toward Crean’s office. She looked the part of the professional she tried to be and, if necessary, she could utilize very effective masking techniques. Before she studied psychology, she had become a social chameleon. She didn’t stand out. She blended in groups. Mimicked reactions. Copied expressions. Nothing too special. Nothing too odd. Hiding among normal people, like her mother had done for so long. The good ones, the successful ones, always did.”
“Nadine placed one map on top of the other and held them to the dining room light. The points were a near-perfect match. The map of Sarasota, Desoto and Manatee Counties was larger than the one of Marion, Volusia and Lake, but her mind made the readjustment. She finally understood why the unsub used Myakka and why he dropped the bodies in Phillippi Creek: because the kill and dump sites now aligned perfectly with her mother’s.”
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