Madison shook her head. ‘Since Denni, she’s been struggling with suicidal thoughts, too,’ she said. ‘But that’s all that I’ve done so far. There’s so much footage, but we never finished it. Bree freaked out after we filmed it and made me swear never to share it.’

‘Freaked out?’ said Gabriella.

‘Got angry. Got upset. Told me she thought the whole project was a waste of time and she’d sue me if the footage ever came out. Or hit me. Or kill me. I forget the details.’

‘So you’re going to share it now?’ said Con, a little more accusatory than he intended.

‘Do you know how many people my video has brought to the search?’ said Madison, suddenly defensive again, voice rising. ‘You didn’t even know Bree had PTS! Don’t you even profile the missing? I can’t sit here and do nothing. You don’t know what those girls mean to me! My twin sister. My best friends!’

‘I thought you didn’t get on with Bree,’ said Con.

Gabriella kicked him again and this time he gave her a look. Madison was putting on a good act, but he was starting to feel an act was all it was. What the hell does she know that she’s not telling us?

Madison gave him a withering look. She turned back to the screen. ‘I need to finish this video. You can find your own way out.’

Being dismissed by a 16-year-old was not an experience Con enjoyed, but Gabriella grabbed his arm and he let her drag him outside. His mind was turning, carefully putting observations and facts into boxes, listing options and priorities and questions he needed answered.

They were in the car before Gabriella spoke, ignoring a foreign journalist nearby, in make-up and high heels standing in front of a camera, the Masons’ house in the background. ‘Madison was all by herself on that same trail, but she wasn’t taken. I mean, she’s the one with the massive profile – did someone take Cierra by mistake?’

‘Madison is hiding something,’ said Con.

‘Oh? Maybe you should go back in and you can do some more of your delicate questioning?’

‘Surely she would tell us anything she thought would help find the girls.’

‘Back to my question then, Badenhorst – could someone have taken Cierra by mistake?’

‘Cierra was wearing a bright blue wig, which makes it hard to confuse the pair,’ said Con. ‘But could Bree have had something to do with it? Madison said she got angry —’

‘Eliza is right: I bet it’s a boy,’ Gabriella interrupted.

‘What?’

‘The reason for the fight. It must be about a boy.’

‘How could you possibly know —’

‘If you get to have your special detective intuition, so do I,’ Gabriella said.

‘I agree that there’s more here. Call Coops and ask him to send us everything he’s got from talking with the teachers and friends.’