Officer Williamson's (Patricia's dad the cop/detective) POV
Me and my cop friends are looking at this old house that has been vacant for 60 years. The owners of the property it's on reported trespassers. They never used the house but the trespasser had moved in without permission. At first they didn't mind but then they'd occasionally heard screaming and they where concerned. Then a week ago the van left and never came back and the house was left with the stench of death.
We searched the whole house and then the cellar. In the cellar we found a dead man with a knife in his throat and stab marks everywhere els. We called the and asked if they got vans license plate women on the phone said "Yes I wrote them down let me get the paper." I waited several seconds " the number is ######."
"Thank you."
****a few days later****
A bunch of detectives where discussing the evidence.
"The prints on the knife belong to Jerome Clarke." Why does that name sound familiar?
"So does the van."
"The guy who sold him the van said he was homeless."
"That explains why he was living in the abandon house."
"Let's find Jerome Clarke."