Chapter 63

lt took about three minutes for Gabriel and I to throw on our cloths and head back to the Hall in the rush, I never told him my news.

By disaster standard, the quake was nothing much unless you had spent the past five weeks tracking down the country's most notorious killer. most of the damages ended up confined to shattered storefronts and traffic accident north of the city, but as we pushed our way through the clamoring throng of press in the Hall's lobby, the quake's biggest news cracked with the fierceness of a live wire:

the bride and groom killer was free.

Richard Zaddicos had managed to flee after the police was taking him back to jail had flipped over outside Novato, the result of a chain of automobile accidents caused by the tremor. the policeman guarding him had been fatally injured. Two more, in the front seat of the overturned van, were hospitalized.