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act of murder just like from drugs or alcohol. After the actual killing, many of them feel depressed or even remorseful. Like an addict who succumbed to temptation and went on a drug or alcohol binge. They may go weeks, months, or even years before the urge to kill begins to overwhelm them again. It’s during this period that some serial killers write letters to newspapers or call the police to confess, hoping they’ll be caught. But in the end, they keep on taking lives until they’re apprehended. There is no such thing as a reformed serial killer.”
    â€œIt’s always hard to kill the first time, but after that it gets easier,” Abbie said. “Isn’t that what they say?”
    â€œExactly.”
    â€œHave you ever seen a serial killer case where there is no common thread between the murders?”
    â€œNo.”
    â€œNever?”
    â€œI’ve seen a few where I’m not sure what the connection is, but I know there is one.”
    â€œIn other words, you just haven’t found it.”
    I looked at the pictures of the four women on the screen again.
    â€œIs this about Laura Marlowe?” I asked.
    â€œMaybe.”
    â€œYou think that the guy who killed her played some role in the deaths of these other women too?”
    â€œI’m not sure.”
    â€œThat’s impossible.”
    â€œWhy?”
    â€œBecause the guy who killed Laura Marlowe has been dead for thirty years. He killed himself in a hotel room a couple of days after her murder. I don’t know anything about those other women, but one of them—Cheryl Carson—died well after that. I know that for a fact. So there’s no way Laura Marlowe’s killer could have killed her too, unless . . .”
    That’s when it hit me. I suddenly understood. I understood the big story Abbie was working on. She wasn’t trying to prove that Laura Marlowe was still alive. She wasn’t dredging up old facts or speculation or gossip about the murder just to make a quick hit in the ratings. She had figured out the one thing that could blow the case wide open again even after all these years.
    â€œI think the cops got the wrong guy,” Abbie said.

Chapter 5
    T HE article I wrote about Abbie Kincaid’s show for the next day’s paper stuck pretty close to the basic instructions I’d gotten from Stacy—Abbie was going to break a big exclusive about the long-ago forgotten Laura Marlowe murder on The Prime Time Files this week.
    I used a bunch of teaser quotes from Abbie about how the story would shock viewers with the disclosures and generate big news about the infamous case.
    I also included a lot of the background material on Laura Marlowe and her death that I’d researched since it had all happened so long ago.
    I did not write that Abbie would reveal evidence showing authorities might have blamed the wrong man for the murder.
    Or that there might have been subsequent murders carried out by the same killer after Laura Marlowe’s death.
    Or that Abbie had been dating the son of New York City mob boss Thomas Rizzo.
    She had shared most of this information with me off-the-record. And I honored that commitment. I didn’t even tell Stacy about it. Partly because I take my “off-the-record” vows very seriously as a journalist. But also because . . . well, I liked Abbie Kincaid, and Ididn’t like Stacy. So I kept all the secrets she had told me that day out of the article.
    I sure was looking forward to hearing what more she had to say on the TV show though.
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    That “wrong man” blockbuster was pretty much all I’d gotten out of Abbie on the Laura Marlowe case. I think she probably realized she’d already told me too much after she said it. I wondered if she’d planned to be that open with me before the interview. Maybe she was just in an emotional state because of the fight with the boyfriend, Rizzo. Maybe she’d