The first thing Detective Lena Ortiz noticed was not the blood on the pavement. It was the grocery bag. It sat upright beside the driver’s door, a carton of eggs unbroken inside, while twenty-nine-year-old Mara Ellison lay several feet away beneath the stairwell. Her former fiancé told police she had been attacked by a stranger. Then a traffic camera showed his truck entering the neighborhood twelve minutes before the assault. By midnight, officers believed they knew who they were looking for. What they did not know was that he had already gone home.
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