Page 2 of The Truth You Told (Raisa Susanto #2)
WIFE OF FBI AGENT REPORTED MISSING
Shay Kilkenny, the wife of FBI forensic psychologist Callum Kilkenny, was reported missing this afternoon. Her car was found at the Willowbrook Mall parking lot, and the police were called after shoppers noticed that the front door of her sedan had been left open for several hours. There were no other signs of struggle.
For the past four years, Agent Kilkenny has been hunting the serial killer known as the Alphabet Man, who has murdered more than 20 people in the Houston metro area.
“It’s a nightmare scenario,” said one task force member on the condition of anonymity. “We’ve all been worried about our loved ones being targeted by this sicko; it’s what you fear the most when you sign on to a job like this. Maybe it’s not our guy who took Shay ... but you have to think it is.”
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL HELD FOR WIFE OF FBI AGENT HUNTING THE ALPHABET MAN
Hundreds of friends, family and strangers gathered Sunday evening for a candlelight vigil on the third day of Shay Kilkenny’s disappearance as the task force hunting the serial killer works around the clock to find the wife of one of their own.
Throughout the evening it was clear there was one fact on everyone’s mind: all the Alphabet Man’s previous victims were killed after being held for 72 hours.
Agent Kilkenny, the forensic psychologist who has been engaged in a cat and mouse game with the killer, did not make an appearance at the event.
According to a source close to the investigation, cadaver dogs will be brought out Monday morning to search likely drop sites.
HOUSTON CHRONICLE DATABASE OF DECRYPTED LETTERS WRITTEN BY NATHANIEL CONRAD, MAY 2009–OCTOBER 2014
“This wasn’t a decision we took lightly,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Xander Pierce said of working in partnership with the Houston Chronicle to publish the 81 letters written by the serial killer known as the Alphabet Man to the FBI over a five-year time span.
(Read all 81 letters below.)
“We didn’t want to give him what he wanted, which was more media attention,” Pierce said. “But we left no stone unturned in every other part of the investigation. We couldn’t miss out on the chance that someone in the public might be able to identify his writing.”
Although no one came forward in the five years that the Alphabet Man wrote to the task force, the letters were ultimately responsible for his capture, as he made a crucial mistake in his last message to law enforcement, allowing the FBI to get a step ahead of him for the first time.
One of the lines in the message written to Special Agent Callum Kilkenny after his wife, Shay, was kidnapped and killed by Conrad became something of a rallying cry for the city in the months following her death.
“She never stopped fighting.”