Chapter 244

“I have no idea. I haven’t received any demands for money, no threats besides this and no clue that anything is amiss.”

“The bodies?” she said softly. “Maybe that’s what all of this is about. Maybe someone wants money for information, or maybe they are just trying to scare off the investigation.” Sandra’s eyes widened as she looked up at her husband. “The killer wasn’t Gerrald Bachmeier. It couldn’t have been.”

“The two incidents may not have anything to do with the other,” Creighton said, clenching his jaw. “But if I didn’t already know Konrad Bachmeier was dead, I’d think it was him doing all this. It’s just the type of sneaky act he used to pull.”

“What do you mean?” she asked.

“When he was living here, before his uncle sent him back to Germany, he would sneak onto the farms at night and dig up the vegetables, play pranks and let the chickens or sheep loose. Once he even drove off the Parker’s family donkey. When they found it, it had fallen into a ditch and broke its leg. They ha