Our Sick Inheritance (editing)

Chapter 42- Can I Tell You A Secret?

While everyone was staring at the pictures of Jolene which looked to be an older version of Stacy, Kyle was getting more anxious by the minute. He could feel the tension from the facially expressive thoughts in the group that Jolene could be related to his daughter. Being her father, Kyle knew every cousin Stacy has ever had on his and his wife's side. It was just a strange coincidence. He didn't really believe in coincidences but there was no other explanation why they resembled each other so much.

Jose handed each person at the table a folder. Inside were seven pictures of the girls with dark shoulder length hair. It was obvious that some of the girls had colored their hair black.

"Well we are still working on locations, but this is what we have so far." Jose explained while expecting everyone to follow.

"The seven girls including Nikki were dumped at rest areas along the freeway from Seattle, Washington to California. Though the dumping started in Washington the second girl was found towards the lower half in California and every murder after headed North. We all know by now that all seven girls are connected by blood in their eyes of the girl killed before them. So far, we know each girl wasn't dumped where they were from." Jose said capturing the attention of everyone in at the table. Everyone stared at the details listed under the first picture while they followed along.

"The first girl, Meredith Yaks was murdered at the age of eighteen just over two years ago. She was sixteen when she ran away from home in San Diego, California. She had been dumped at a Seattle, Washington a rest stop. That is how we got involved, because she was in our jurisdiction. Meredith was from a broken home that had gone through a very nasty divorce. She had her own blood in her eyes, which is how we know she was the first." Jose said then cleared his throat.

Kyle remembered the beginning cases of the blood linked chain well. Jake was having horrible nightmares about them at the time. Kyle had listened to his son recall his night terrors over the phone while he was away at school. Jake gave his father details of the cases that helped Kyle and Jose put some of the pieces together. He had told Jake to ignore his nightmares until after he graduated college because he wanted him to focus on his studies and not be stressed out. Jose and Kyle kept Jake's information personal because they didn't want Jake to be dragged in to be questioned. Besides who would take them seriously if they knew some of the leads they got was from Jake's nightmares. That would never hold up in court. It wasn't unusual because Jake had been dreaming of dead people since he was young. Kyle knew it had to be a gift from his mother's side of the family because his wife was shocked by some of his family history. Alicia had never experienced anyone like Kyle's mother before, so Kyle gave her a ring in case his crazy family members drove her away.

"The second girl was Gabriella Nohonar. She ran away at the age of fifteen to get away from an abusive brother that babysat her while their mother worked two jobs. Their father was in jail, so their mother was the only one who worked to keep the lights on and food on their table. Gabriella was found in Oakland, California, but she grew up in Tacoma, Washington. She had Meredith's blood in her eyes. There wasn't any other affiliation between them, but they established the distance of our search area." Jose said before turning a few pages in his folder before continuing. Everyone gave him their undivided attention without hesitation. Most of them knew the cases, but not all the details until now.

"The third girl is Mina Tuyouth. She died at age nineteen but had been on her own since she was sixteen. We have her fake Identification card which was issued three years before her death so honestly, we don't know exactly how long she has been missing. The address on her ID belonged to a middle class family that had no idea who she was and had never seen her before. She was found at a rest stop near Redding, California. The blood in her eyes belonged to Gabriella." He paused and made sure everyone was still with him.