The groundskeepers at Mount Olivet Cemetery dug a deeper grave than usual with a backhoe and buried the bodies of Timothy McKinney, James Holliman, and Joseph Lambert in a stack and placed a bronze plaque over it with the name PAULA FOSSELMAN, 1871–1939. The plaque had been hanging in the cemetery’s garage as a souvenir. It was once used as a sample to sell grave markers by a long-defunct company in Ohio that used to sell mail-order work to communities in the West.

For two weeks Leah and the police force remained on alert, watching for signs that the three escapees might make a second attempt on some part of Weldonville. Observers from the fire department were placed near the major roads into the city.

Near the end of that time, Leah composed a letter to be held in the personnel file of Sergeant Tim Munson in case any unknown relatives ever turned up. It gave him credit for the shooting of the three escaped convicts who attacked city hall. It also gave the true location of the criminals’ bodies in case it was necessary to verify that they’d been shot in their heads by Munson’s .380 backup weapon after he had been gravely wounded. His .380 pistol was placed in the safe room of the Public Safety Building as evidence.

A few days later Leah was on a flight from Denver to Little Rock, Arkansas. She had left late at night, so she’d bought a sandwich to take on the plane, eaten it while waiting for her boarding group to be called, and then fallen asleep during the flight. She woke when the air pressure changed as the plane descended for landing.

Leah spent a night and a day in Little Rock in room 502 at the Capital Hotel on Markham Street studying and getting ready. The upper floors offered a nonscenic view, and were not especially luxurious, so she had predicted they would be quiet and not have much casual traffic.

She had reviewed the emails from the FBI while she was in Weldonville. The reason she had chosen Little Rock was an intelligence report that said they’d been picking up podcasts on the dark web that claimed to be from the Swift Sword of the Savior, which seemed to be making some kind of comeback. The FBI was not sure if the attribution was true, but there had been a suggestion based on a comparison of ideas, expressions, vocabulary, and so on, that they might be. The FBI didn’t have a location, because, like a lot of things on the dark web, it was coming from several hosts in places like Moldova. They believed that the original signal could be coming from northern Arkansas or southern Missouri, in Ozark country, because a number of the original members were from that region.