Chapter 4 - Two Dead People Came Back
Detective Lena Brooks arrived and separated fact from assumption.
Michael and Anna had both disappeared six years earlier after a storm damaged their boat off North Carolina.
No bodies were recovered.
Rachel’s father, Henry Whitmore, handled most of the aftermath.
Then police found a hidden camera in the old nursery aimed directly at the pool.
A fresh fingerprint on it belonged to Anna Pierce.
The camera had recorded the patio.
Someone had been watching Noah and Rachel.
Rachel’s phone suddenly received an anonymous message.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RACHEL.
Her birthday was the next day.
Another message followed.
DAD LIED TO YOU.
Then:
OPEN THE BOX ALONE.
Rachel admitted her father had left her a safe-deposit box with instructions not to open it until she turned thirty-one.
The timing was no coincidence.
Police accompanied her to the bank the next morning.
Inside were three passports.
Henry Whitmore.
Michael Whitmore.
Anna Pierce.
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Michael’s and Anna’s passports had been issued two years after their supposed deaths.
They had survived.
