Markus didn’t respond. He thought it was tragic how people changed once they were married. He imagined that at one time they must have been attracted to each other. He’d seen it before: a man losing his job and forced to be a house husband loathing himself, his wife and his life.

Turning into New Canterbury Road from Wardell Road, Puni asked, “If the killer is supposedly a serial killer, why do we give the spouse a hard time? The killing might be random.”

Markus looked ahead and saw the traffic slow. He made sure that he was in the best lane to get back to his destination. “Good point but we shouldn’t rule out that one of the husbands or boyfriends of the victims may have killed a few women to get rid of his wife and deflect suspicion.”

“He had two sm...

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