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probably just wanted to know when the article about him would be in the paper
and frankly, with all that was going on, I didn’t know when there would be room
for it in the paper. I just told Sara if he called again to tell him we needed
a picture of him and to make an appointment with Sune to go take it.
    After that I went home early and spent the rest of the day with my
beautiful daughter and my beloved old father. That was a very popular decision
at home. We really enjoyed each other's company, playing games, talking, eating,
and laughing. Julie said she had a great day at school, and that melted my
worried heart. She had gotten a new friend in her class. His name was Tobias.
While she told me everything about her new friend, I thanked God for my
daughter. No matter how angry I was with her dad, he had given me her, and for
that I was eternally grateful to him.

 
     
     
     
     
     
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    Julie had nightmares that night and she climbed in to my bed. I hugged her
and lay close to her until she fell asleep again, but didn’t get much sleep
myself after that. My mind wandered.
    I lay still in the bed looking at the ceiling just as I used to do as a
kid. It hadn’t changed. I knew every crack, every line in that ceiling and they
were all still there. I smiled to myself, feeling happy about some things
staying the same. And then I thought about the murder cases. I was excited
about having found the connection. But how did I move on from here. Should I
just let it go and let the police do the work, like detective Michael
Oestergaard wanted me to? But how could I? I felt strangely attached to the
case, and I knew something important. What if I could stop the killer from
striking again? What if I could follow the investigation so closely I would be
the only journalist to break the story about the first serial killer in
Denmark? The thought excited me.
    And I knew exactly how I was going to do it.
     
    After dropping Julie off at her school the next morning I drove to the
nearest furniture store before I drove to the newspaper. I bought a desk and a
chair and brought it all with me in the car. Then I bought a laptop in another
store and called Sune and asked him to meet me in front of the newspaper. When
I arrived, he stood outside and was waving at me. I asked him to help me get it
all up the stairs.
    Inside in the editorial room we put the desk and chair down and unpacked
it. It needed to be put together, so Sune helped me, while Sara looked at us in
disbelief.
    Finally when it was done we placed the desk next to mine and I smiled at
Sune.
    ”Congratulations, this is your new workspace,” I said to him.
    He looked at me.
    ”What?”
    ”I want you to work with me on this case.”
    “How?”
    ”I need you to monitor the police work. Check the files, read the
autopsy reports and so on.”
    His eyes were now big and wide. ”Are you kidding me?”
    ”Nope.”
    “You want me to hack into the police’s main server and look at their
files. Are you insane?”
    “I might be.”
    Sune sighed loudly.
    ”I would love to—you know I really love that stuff—but I
can’t … I mean if the police caught me … Once is one thing but several times
makes the possibility of being caught so much bigger.”
    “How would they ever know? You said so yourself, that you were good at
it, that you could do it without leaving a trace. I bought you a brand new
laptop. It belongs to the paper, so we will all get in trouble if anyone found
out.”
    Sune scratched his head. ”I don’t know…”
    I suddenly felt bad pushing him into doing something illegal. I didn’t
want him to get in trouble because of me that was for sure.
    ”You know what? It was a bad idea.” I closed the laptop. I sat down at
my own desk. “Just forget it.”
    I opened my own laptop and checked my e-mails. Sune stood for a long
time and stared at the empty desk. Then he sat down.
    “Okay, but only on this case,” he said. “Never again.”
    I