Will sat at his desk staring at the white board in front of him. He was running on no sleep and coffee pumped through his veins. Pictures were posted all over of Rachel's case. The police have been working night and day to solve the case.
"I just don't get it!" Will shouted startling the other policemen in the office. "I have gone though all the leads and all the evidence. Not one has panned out. I've read all of the letters and not one thing popped."
Just then another cop ran into the room and holding a large bag. Will looked at him and the detective smiled.
"I went back to the hospital to get all of Rachel's remaining things and the doctor gave me her files as well. When I saw this cleared list in her mix. I asked the doctor what it was and he said that it's for all the people that have been cleared by Rachel's therapist."
"And this means?" Will asked rubbing his temples.
"This means that these letters didn't need to be kept with the doctor they could stay with Rachel."
"The doctors still would have checked them." The other cop told the detective.
"No people on the cleared list aren't threats and that means the letters don't need to be checked." He said and Will looked up.
"Who was on her cleared list?"
"Her parents." He said and Will shook his head confused.
"LeRoy is dead so that leaves Hiam." Will said and the detective dumped the letters out on the table.
"Guess again." He said and Will grabbed an envelop. Shelby Corcoran's name was written in neat scraw across the letter.
"Rachel's mother." Will said and started to look through the letters.
It had been over an hour as Will and the other cops looked through the letters. They were all jumbled and didn't make any sense.
"This is weird all of the letters are out of order yet the dates are in numerical order." Will said and the detective shrugged.
"Maybe Rachel wrote the wrong dates to through people off?"
"No Rachel's too orginized to do that. It seems that there are letters between each of these ones. Ones that Rachel started and Shelby kept." Will said and the detective stood up.
"So let's go get Shelby and find those letters." He said and Will nodded standing up. They grabbed their coats and walked out to one of the squad cars. Driving to down town they found an old home that read the address on the letters. Walking up to the door Will nocked and waited for someone to answer. When the door opened it was an older nurse and she looked at them.
"Hello can I help you?" she asked and Will held up his badge with the detective.
"We are the Lima county police and we need to speak to Shelby about an on going case." He said and and the nurse sighed.
"You can come in but I don't know how well you can speak to Shelby." The nurse said letting them in to the house. Shelby was sitting on a chair with bandages wrapped around her neck and her head toward the window.
"What happened to her?" Will asked and the nurse turned to him.
"Poor thing drank bleach." She told him and walked over to Shelby.
"Hey Ms. Corcoran. Some visiters are here for you." She said and Shelby turned toward Will. Standing up quickly Shelby walked over to him. Will hugged her lightly and Shelby motioned something to her nurse who walked out of the room then came back with a white board.
On the white board Shelby wrote some words. Will looked at them and read out loud.
"Is Rachel alright? Yes she is Shelby for now but I don't know how much longer someone is trying to hurt Rachel and her friends. Did she tell you who it is?" Will told her and Shelby erased the words.
"I know who it is but if I tell you he will kill Rachel." Will read and looked at Shelby.
"If you don't tell me who he is then he will kill Rachel." The detective said and Shelby shook her head.
"He will never hurt Rachel. In his sick mind he loves Rachel and will do anything to have her." Will read and sighed.
"Shelby, Rachel wrote you some letters do you still have them?" He asked and Shelby pointed to the fire.
"She was burning some paperwork recently. I thought it was just some old things." The nurse said and Shelby wrote down on the white board.
"It's a puzzle and there are peices all over this town." The detective read from the white board. Will sighed and turned to the nurse.
"We need her medical records from the time she gave birth to Rachel." Will informed her and Shelby nodded to the nurse.
"Let me grab them." She said and walked back into the office. When she came back out she handed will the file folder and he smiled.
"Thank you for your cooperation." He said and walked out of the house to the squad car. Flipping through the paper work Will stopped.
"This is strange." He said and the detective turned to him.
"What?"
"It says that there was vaginal scaring." Will told him.
"Is there pictures?"
"Yes."
"Then we can take it to our M.E see if she can tell from a photo." The detective said and parked outside of the prisinct. Walking down the halls to the morge.
"Stacy can you help us out?" Will asked and she walked out from behind the shelves.
"Yes?" She asked and he handed her the photos.
"What would you say these are from?" He asked and she turned to him.
"Well of course I can't be for absolute certain since this is a photo but I'd say this girl was raped. About nine or ten months before this photo was taken." She said and Will stopped in his tracks.
"Rachel, she's the product of Shelby's rape."