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day , Rachel got killed. Angela said it was just too convenient and was convinced that Linda Pryor had killed Rachel.”
    “Why?” Joshua asked.
    “I have no idea. But with all the connections that Linda Pryor had, she’s now senator, she certainly has the power to have my daughter killed, and to have a boy like Billy Robb killed and cover it up. Don’t you think?”
    “And whatever it was that they were fighting about, it’s in here?” Cameron said.
    “I’m positive of it. But don’t ask me what.”
    After taking the envelope home, Joshua emptied the contents, which proved to be a thumb drive. While opening the drive on his computer, he listened to Tad’s update on Gina Robb’s medical condition over the phone. “Believe it or not, she came out of her coma. She’s hanging in there. We talked a little bit this morning. She keeps asking if you’ve found out anything.”
    Meanwhile, Cameron was taking a call on her cell phone from Lieutenant Dugan, her supervisor. “I got a call from the head of the state police,” he was saying in a strained voice. “He says that you tracked down Ralph Ellicott in Pittsburgh where he was having lunch with some of his high profile colleagues, and you accused him of being dirty. Ellicott says you insinuated that he covered up Rachel Burke’s murder and killed Billy Robb to frame him for her murder. Tell me you didn’t do that.”
    “I would,” Cameron replied, “but my mother always told me that when you tell one lie, you end up having to tell a whole bunch of lies to cover up that lie and then you end up being a liar.”
    “Urgh!” Lieutenant Dugan cursed. “Cameron, you’re on vacation. What are you doing digging up old—and closed—murder cases while you’re on vacation. You told me that you were going to spend the next two weeks having sex-sex-sex with your new husband.”
    “Yeah,” Cameron replied. “But there’s only so many positions that you can try and then it gets old. It was either dig up an old case or get kinky, and Josh and I are too old to get kinky.”
    She smiled when she saw Joshua’s head snap in her direction. He shot her a playful glare. “Who’s too old to get kinky?” he asked her in a low voice.
    Cameron’s boss was asking, “What am I supposed to tell my CO in Harrisburg?”
    “The truth,” she replied. “I’m on vacation and you have no control over what I do on my vacation.”
    The police lieutenant was still cursing when she hung up.
    “I guess we’ve ruffled a few feathers.” Joshua gestured for her to join him over at his laptop.
    “More than a few.” She sat on the corner of the desk. “Did you find anything interesting on that?”
    “I’m opening it up now.”
    They studied the names of the files on the removable disk drive. Most were photographs of people, many famous, some not-so-famous. Many were couples and groups smiling at the camera.
    “Not only do we have pictures, but we have audio, too.” He pointed at the six audio files at the bottom of the list.
    “There’s also a pdf file.” Cameron grabbed the mouse from his hand to click on the file entitled: The Lady in the Well Remains Unidentified
    The article went on to report that the skeletal remains of a woman found at the bottom of an abandoned well in the Allegheny Mountains in the spring of 1998 still remained unidentified. An anthropologist and artist, using the skull had done a drawing of what the woman, estimated to be in her late teens to early twenties, would have looked like. Anyone with any information that could help to identify the woman and solve her death would be appreciated. The article contained a copy of the drawing.
    The drawing reminding him of his older daughter, Joshua pushed the thought of Tracy ending up dead at such a young age from his mind.
    Each of the audio files was named and had a date attached to them. All of the dates were for Labor Day 2001. Ronald Pryor, husband of the candidate for United States Senator from