Chapters (61)
- Cover
- Praise
- Dedication
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-One
- From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
- Twenty-Two
- Twenty-Three
- Twenty-Four
- Twenty-Five
- Twenty-Six
- Twenty-Seven
- Twenty-Eight
- Twenty-Nine
- Thirty
- Thirty-One
- Thirty-Two
- Thirty-Three
- Thirty-Four
- From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
- Thirty-Five
- Thirty-Six
- Thirty-Seven
- Thirty-Eight
- From the Journal of Candace Swain
- Thirty-Nine
- Forty
- Forty-One
- Forty-Two
- Forty-Three
- Forty-Four
- Forty-Five
- Forty-Six
- Forty-Seven
- Letter Found in the Journal of Candace Swain
- Forty-Eight
- Acknowledgments
- Booklist
- Excerpt
“Yes,” she said. “I don’t know what it means—maybe someone wants to know where you or I live, maybe they want to know what we’re doing now. Either way, it’s a sign that your podcast is making someone nervous. You need to be extra careful.”
They walked to his apartment. When he opened the unlocked door, she said, “Being extra careful means keeping your door locked, even when you’re home.”
“Okay,” he said.
Lucas introduced Regan to Troy, who was watching basketball while doing homework on the couch. “What happened?” Troy asked.
“Someone was following us.”
“No shit? Wow.”
“Keep the door locked at all times,” Regan said. She looked at it. “And use the dead bolt, okay?”
“Sure,” Troy said.
“Everything’s in my bedroom,” Lucas said. He opened his door, cringing at how cluttered the space was. It wasn’t a large room, and other than his twin bed—thank God he had made it this morning—he’d dedicated his room to The Sorority Murder podcast. Books, stacks of folders and papers, binders, notes, a corkboard with a timeline of Candace’s missing days that he’d hung on the wall. The timeline was pretty bare. Regan was looking at it now.
Friday April 10: Sorority party in evening. Candace has argument with Taylor James and leaves @midnight.
Saturday April 11 12:20 a.m.: Candace’s card key used to enter dorm building.
Sunday April 12: Abby from Las Vegas sees Candace in Kingman early afternoon.
April 12: @10 p.m. ‘A Concerned Sister’ sees Candace—Mountain View parking, driving.
April 12: 11:10 p.m.: Candace’s card key used to enter dorm.
Monday April 13: 5:37 p.m. per NAUPD report—Annie Johnston, roommate, contacts campus police.
Tuesday April 14: 9:07 a.m. per NAUPD report—Campus police locate Candace’s car in Mountain View parking structure (did anyone look on Monday?)
Wednesday April 15: NAUPD notified Flagstaff PD—FPD takes over missing person case.
Saturday April 18: Candace killed between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. per ME; COD drowning (also manual strangulation, bruising on shoulders peri mortem; post-mortem injuries consistent with body dragged.)
Sunday April 19: Candace’s body found @ 8 a.m. Hope Springs Lake, maintenance staff (Julio Dominguez, head of landscaping, Hope Centennial Golf)
April 19: Witness tells police they saw Joseph Abernathy jumping into freight car near Flagstaff station in the a.m. (Note: freight train slowed through town to <5 mph on April 19, no stop, at 9:10 a.m. per Union office.)
Lucas had other notes, including the name of the detective in charge of the case, the dates of key media reports. On April 20, the FPD had issued a statement that Abernathy was a person of interest.
Lucas also had Post-it notes on the days he’d talked to—or tried to talk to—Detective Young. There was a list of all the Sigma Rho girls living at the sorority at the time; another list was of all the sorority girls today. Twelve names were highlighted, and Regan asked why.