The Killer Vanished, But Her Husband Knows
Chapter 8: Filling in the Blanks
The clues to the case were as clear as a full moon on a summer night.
Joe Barnes, driven by lust, had broken into Dan Harper’s house late at night to assault Lila. She fought back, so he killed her…
But what puzzled everyone was this: the forensic report showed all the depraved acts Lila suffered happened before death. How did she endure such pain without crying out?
Maybe no one would’ve heard, or maybe she stayed silent to protect the child next door.
Perhaps, for her son’s sake, she bore inhuman torture in silence.
A mother’s love knows no bounds.
The murder weapon was tossed in the yard—Dan Harper’s own axe.
It had both Joe Barnes’s and Dan Harper’s fingerprints on it.
That was normal.
In a place like Maple Heights, folks borrowed tools all the time, shared chores, left axes propped by fences and rakes in the grass. It was the kind of town where you didn’t bother locking your door—until the night everything changed.
