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Albrightsville, Pennsylvania

B ryan gets in the car—he’s cleaned every inch of it, inside and out—and drives to the end of Monroe County and back.

He doesn’t know it, but he’s got eyes on him every second.

The car and his phone are being tracked.

There’s a team of Pennsylvania state troopers in the woods surrounding 119 Lamsden Drive, surveilling it around the clock. They’ve been there since yesterday at dawn.

They’ve seen him depositing the garbage in his neighbors’ bins.

Bryan has no idea that they’ve taken the family garbage or that a forensics lab will determine that there is a 99.9998 percent chance that the DNA collected from the trash belongs to the father of the person whose DNA was on the knife sheath found beside Maddie at 1122 King Road.

He has no idea, basically, that it’s game over.