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“What if they didn’t leave right away?” Perry said. “Maybe they’re still in g.a.y.l.o.r.d.”

Dew scratched his chin. “Maybe. Or maybe they were part of that attack on the roadblock.”

“Which had another triangle victim.”

Dew flipped through the paperwork. “Yeah, Ryan Roznowski. He killed three soldiers and wounded Private Dustin Climer. Climer returned fire, killing Roznowski.”

“What the f.u.c.k,” Perry said. “Was this Roznowski, like, a Special Forces Rambo guy, or what?”

“A plumber,” Dew said. “Roznowski is married, but the FBI can’t find his wife. That’s not a cause for alarm in itself, because this whole town just bugged out, but there are signs of a struggle at the Roznowski house, blood on the living-room carpet, so do your college-boy math.”

“Roznowski’s wife is the burned woman in the Jewell house?”

“Probably,” Dew said. “We’ll see if we they identify her, but that all adds up. Roznowski kills or hurts his wife, then brings her over to the Jewells’ house.”

“And the Becketts either go there or are brought there.”

“Nicole Beckett was murdered,” Dew said. “So maybe someone kills her and kidnaps Wallace and his son, but I’m thinking that maybe Wallace killed her, then went to the Jewell house on his own, just like Roznowski.”

“Went on his own,” Perry said. “Or maybe was called. Summoned.”

“Like the triangles put you and Fatty Patty together?”

Perry shrugged. “Maybe. So what do we do now?”

“We get some pictures of the Jewell family, for starters, and put out an APB on them. h.e.l.l, we’ll use the media again, say the Jewells are carrying the flesh-eating bacteria.”

Perry nodded. “Okay, that will work, but what about their cars?”

“All the cars registered to the Jewells burned up in their garage.”

“So they took someone else’s car?”