The first four hits for Pauline Vick were news articles from three years ago. The fifth was an article from a little over a year ago. The headlines told her everything she needed to know and she was almost afraid to click on the links. There might be answers there, but there was going to be a dark story as well.

Jack, I got something, she said, still only looking at the headlines and links. Something big, maybe.

Yeah?

News articles from three years ago, she said. She finally opened the top result and read the article slowly, out loud, starting with the headline. Miracle Baby Delivered to 50 Year-Old Baltimore Woman. For any woman, it becomes more and more difficult to conceive a child after the age of thirty-five, Rachel read. After forty-five it is considered very difficult, and once youre north of fifty, its practically unheard of. But that did not stop Pauline Vick, a local woman that currently works as a doctor at Regency Fertility Clinic. Pauline had been told since she and her late husband started trying to conceive in their early twenties that having a baby simply wasnt in the cards for them. I prayed and prayed about it, Pauline said. But test after test kept telling me that it just wasnt going to happen. And then when my husband died five years ago, I nearly gave up. But I knew hed want me to keep trying, so thats exactly what I did. I attempted in vitro, artificial insemination, the whole range of treatments. And then, last November, it happened. At the age of 49, I was pregnant!

Rachel scanned the rest of the article quickly. You get the gist, she said.

Sounds like an uplifting story, Jack said. Why should that make me concerned.

Because of another article from about a year and a half ago. She clicked on the article and this time, did not read it out loud. She scanned it and as she took the words in, she grew anxious and heartbroken at the same time.

Read it for yourself, Rachel said, still processing it.

After a few moments, Jack set her phone down and said, Jesus. The so-called miracle baby…died?

Three weeks shy of its first birthday, Rachel said. Sudden infant death syndrome.

They said nothing for a moment, letting the heaviness of the news settle in. Rachel did her best to make absolutely sure this was something worth investigating Shed feel pretty fucking awful to bring such a painful point up to an innocent woman. But she could not see this as a coincidence. A woman that had been through that…who just happened to be a doctor at both clinics where it seemed women undergoing fertility treatments were being killed. It just couldnt be ignored.

This is going to be rough, Jack said, getting up from the desk.