Chapter 16
Converging Paths
Angela pieces together the fragmented evidence: Ridgeway’s family history, the suspect David’s disturbed confessions, her mother’s journal entries, and Ridgeway's cryptic pronouncements. She begins to see a motive that transcends mere imitation. It’s about legacy, yes, but also about a twisted sense of justice, a desire to finish what Ridgeway started, or perhaps, to avenge him in a warped way. The forgotten victims she uncovered earlier seem to play a crucial role in the killer's narrative. The paths of the original killer, the copycat, and Angela’s own past are converging, forming a dangerous, intricate web of motive and revenge.
Angela traced the faded ink on the page, her fingertip hovering over the spidery script that belonged to a woman she barely remembered. Her mother’s journal, a brittle relic unearthed from a dusty box in Sheriff Miller’s attic, was a mosaic