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C.H. Foertmeyer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1949, the eldest of four children. After graduating from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico, he returned to Cincinnati to pursue a career in his hometown. Today, Mr. Foertmeyer divides his time between a full-time job and fiction writing.
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"Morning, Farge."
"Hey, Rich, what's up?" Farge replied.
"Nothing much."
"Anything new on Sally Morgan?" Farge asked, pouring himself a cup of coffee.
Farge walked to his desk and slumped down in his chair.
"Nope. Nothing," Rich answered, frowning.
"Damn, I thought we'd have gotten a ransom note or call by now."
"We don't know if that's what this is all about yet," Rich reminded his boss.
"Yeah, I know, but her folks are worth a fortune. It just seems likely."
"No more likely than she was snatched by some pervert. Not these days."
Farge shot Rich a look that could kill.
"That's what really worries me," he said, with sincere emotion in his voice not often displayed by Farge.
Farge had spent the morning in court testifying in a missing persons rape case he had been involved in some months ago. He sipped his coffee and started going through the stack of new mail on his desk. What's this? he wondered, as he picked up an envelope addressed to him in pencil. Crappy handwriting, he thought. Looks like a kid wrote it.
He slit open the envelope and pulled out a piece of notebook paper, three-hole paper, torn from a binder. He unfolded it and began reading the brief message, also written in pencil, and in unsteady cursive.
Dear Mr. Farge,
Look for Sally Morgan in Overland Park
in a trailer by the lake.
Farge turned the paper over, looking at the back. It was blank. He flipped back to the front of the paper and thought to himself, No signature-Another crackpot. He picked up the envelope again and studied it, noting first that there was no return address and then that it was postmarked in Fort Collins, Colorado, over one thousand miles away from Plainsland. "What could a kid in Colorado know about this case?" he asked himself, thinking out loud.
"What's that, Farge?" Rich asked, overhearing his comment.
"Nothing. Look at this. Tell me what you make of it, Rich."
Rich took the letter from Farge and read it, tossing it on the desk when he had finished.
"Looks like a kid wrote it."
"That's what I thought to. Someone needs to give that brat a good whipping. It's getting pretty bad when kids start doing this kind of crap. Hell, I've got a whole drawer full of letters like this, but they're not from kids. This is a first."
"Is there a return address?" Rich asked, looking at the envelope lying face down on the desk.
"What do you think?" Farge asked.
"Didn't think so," Rich replied.
"Do me a favor, Rich. Run this down to the lab and see if they can pick up any prints from it. Also, have Miller take a look at the handwriting and see if he can confirm that it's a kid's handwriting for sure."
Farge put the letter back in the envelope and handed it to Rich.
"Bring it back to me when they're done with it down there," he instructed.
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