Chapter 95. The Soldier’s Dossier

All the bounty did was bring out the worst kinds of people.

For a full week, the phone number Jared had given as a direct contact for clues and the detectives' phones rang nonstop.

Even though it had been different people, different numbers, and people from different places, every call sounded the same... they all had the same hunger underneath it all. People claiming they knew Edward Kowalsky, people swearing they had seen him, and the ones suddenly remembering a cousin or a neighbor or a guy they once shared a beer with who definitely, absolutely fit the description.

Twenty thousand dollars made liars bold.

By the middle of the second week, Jared got rid of the burner phone he was using for the tips, stopped answering altogether, and left it up to the detectives to handle the rest.

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