"Noted." I make a mental note not to be guilty of lecturing her unnecessarily. It's true it's always worse coming from someone you're supposed to trust. "The killer struck again at a party I was at on Saturday night."

"What?@! Someone else is dead?"

"Yes, a friend of my cousin Emma's named Lucie. They went to Cal together."

"How do you know it was the same guy?"

I tell her about the guy being spotted by the man in the van. "The man is living out of his car and is often in the beach parking lot, I think."

"And he's a coder. He didn't see where the guy went?"

"It was dark. None of us noticed anything, until we went to look for Lucie."

"So, what can...

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