by Michael Baier

Created on: April 16, 2008

Chapter 1: The Body

David Preacher was up late, trying to finish his first novel, when the phone rang. He was a police detective, and new that if someone was calling at this time, something had to have happened.
He answered the phone in a hurry, but wasn't given a chance to say anything before the person on the other end was speaking. "David, a body just floated to shore. I can't tell for sure, but I think its Caitlyn."

"Where?" David asked. He listened for a moment, and then continued. "I'm on my way. Give me ten minutes. Don't let anyone touch anything."
David didn't know what to think. Caitlyn Connors had been missing for almost seven months and all hope of finding her had been given up. The case had been shoved off onto a couple of rookies who didn't have any experience in that type of case; they had almost no chance of actually solving it.
Caitlyn had been a 17 year old junior in high school when she had disappeared. She had a full life ahead of her. If it wasn't for her B in chemistry, she would have been a strait-A student. She never missed a day of school, and never went anywhere without telling her mother where she was going and who she was going with. She was almost always home by 11, and when she was running late, she would call home and tell her parents how much longer she would be out.
That had all changed on March 21. She had told her parents that she was going to a movie with her boyfriend and that she'd be home by 11, but 11 came and went. She never showed up and her parents had stayed up all night waiting for her, and trying to reach her through her cell phone and her boyfriends. Neither answered, and when morning came, they called her boyfriends parents to see if she had gone there and forgotten to call. She hadn't. He hadn't even returned home himself. After learning that, both families had called the police and reported their children missing.
At first the police had looked at it as a common runaway. Teenager couples often ran away together. Their opinion changed two weeks later when her boyfriend's body was found by a couple of kids playing in the woods behind their house. He had been stabbed to death by what appeared to be a butcher's knife, though the knife itself had never been found.
David hoped that it wasn't her, but knew that when the police chief said he thought it was their person, he was always right. As he put on his jacket, and went out to his car, he started to think of what he was going to tell the girl's family. That alone

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