“What do you think?” Lucas asked Regan. “Do you think this is important?”

“What’s curious to me is that the sorority is divided. It makes me wonder if there’s something else going on there, maybe someone who knows more than they’re saying.”

“Why?” Lizzy asked. “I mean, you don’t actually buy into Nicole implying that Taylor might have killed her, do you? And like what? They’re covering it up?”

“Actually, it’s a viable theory,” she said. Rachel had also implied the same thing. But it was just conjecture and rumors, something Regan didn’t put much stock in, until she could find evidence.

“I’d been thinking the same thing,” Lucas said. “That maybe Taylor is responsible. But it’ll be impossible to prove.”

“Not necessarily,” Regan said. “If you came to that conclusion, others may, too. We’ll see what happens tonight on the podcast and go from there.” She glanced at her watch. “We should go. Alexa Castillo’s school day ends shortly. She has little digital footprint, so I don’t know how else to find her through public channels.”

Lizzy popped up. “I’ll see you at the studio tonight.”

“Lizzy,” Regan said, “I told Lucas to watch himself, because he’s stirred up a lot of anger over at the sorority. I’m telling you the same thing.”

“He told me about the notes. I’ll be super cautious.”

They walked out together. Lizzy planned to take the bus back to campus, but Regan gave her a ride as it wasn’t too far out of the way. She didn’t think that Lizzy would be in danger—Lucas was the face of the podcast—but as Lizzy said, it was best to be super cautious.

Regan couldn’t find parking anywhere close to the elementary school because dozens of cars were lined up to pick up kids. She parked around the corner and waited. She’d wait until most of the kids and parents were gone, then head in.

While they waited, she said to Lucas, “Vicky Ryan seems to be at the center of this. She wants to end the podcast. She knew Candace, had seen her that night, witnessed part of the argument. She claimed she didn’t hear what it was about but mentioned that Rachel was there as well. Did you know about that?”

“No, it has never come up, and it wasn’t in the police report.”

“So Rachel was there during the argument, along with Kimberly Foster and possibly others. Why would anyone lie about what the fight was about?”

“Maybe,” Lucas considered, “the fight was about more than Abernathy. Maybe it started out that way but devolved into something else.”

Possible, but without someone who was there to confirm, they could only speculate.