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“Maybe you better not tell me the details of what happened after that,” Laurie said. Knowing him as well as she did, she could imagine he’d transformed into a wild man, possibly putting himself in danger. Her only consolation was the idea that the individual was most likely a healthcare worker and probably not armed.

“It wasn’t pretty,” Jack admitted.

“All right, enough evasions,” Laurie said. “Now I’m ready for you to tell me the identity of the bad guy. From your description of him as abad guy, plus mentioning that you wanted Lou involved early because you feared a scandal, and finally your sense it had to be a healthcare worker, I’m fully prepared to be shocked. Who is it?”

“Dr. Carl Henderson,” Jack said.

“Oh. My. God!” she exclaimed, pronouncing each word separately. She was totally stunned. It took her a moment to gather her thoughtsbefore saying: “Who would have guessed? He’s about the last person I would have suspected. It’s all such folly and such a tragedy on so many levels...”

“Let’s look on the bright side,” he said.

“I’m having trouble seeing a bright side,” Laurie said.

“It seems that you and Aria Nichols have added genetic genealogy to the forensic grab bag of tricks to make it possible to construct a perpetrator’s genome. If that’s not a bright side, I don’t know whatis.”