Chapter 53 Heavy Load

"I don't understand how this could happen again. Only one victim in the Wincher area, but a victim nonetheless."

Mayor Monroe pointed at two bodies covered in white sheets on the ground. There were red spots that formed red islands on the white cloth that covered the bodies.

The heavy rain made red streams of water on the wet ground, the source of which was the lifeless bodies.

Everyone was soaked. Three policemen, Mayor Monroe and his secretary--a woman wearing glasses, Elmer and three of his men, and Morgan, who had just arrived at the border area.

The rain was very heavy, accompanied by wind and lightning. No traces could be seen around the victim, because the ground had become very muddy and the water had dissolved all traces.

Morgan approached one of the bodies and removed the cloth covering it. A middle-aged man, apparently an office worker, looked at the light blue shirt and dark blue tie he was wearing. There was a very deep knife cut on the man's neck and on his chest, h