I remember the contractor bag because it looked too heavy for what he said was inside. Wade Halpern told me he was clearing storm debris from the river access road, but there had been no storm, and the gate behind him was locked. I wrote his name in my patrol log, watched him drive away, and thought I had interrupted an old man doing something strange at four in the morning. Three days later, divers pulled the first bag from the Kestrel River.
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