The Lawyer's Lawyer

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waited for Stacey to walk out the front
     door of Fogarty Hall. He even pretended to open the car door as she watched. Now that’s what I call calculating.”
    “Like he was writer, director, and star of his own play,” Peterson observed. “He’s an organized killer all right. No doubt
     about it.”
    Danni knew exactly what Allan was talking about. There were three types of serial killers: organized, disorganized, and mixed.
     Organized killers were usually very bright and plotted their murders, sometimes very intricately. They were usually male and,
     in this case, considering the victims, the killer was almost definitely a man. Murders like this didn’t happen in small-town
     America every day, but they did happen on college campuses from time to time.
    “Did you read that information we received last Friday on serial murders that have occurred in the last ten years?” she asked.
    “I’ve seen it before.”
    “So you know there was someone killing coeds on the campus of the University of Utah two years ago?”
    “And two years before that at Florida State, and before that the University of Texas,” Allan replied.
    “Any discernible patterns?” she asked.
    “They were all organized killers. The killings in Utah and at Florida State, like here, had no pattern or ritual to the murders
     themselves. And the killer was never caught. He apparently just moved on.”
    “Any people we know of who were in Utah and are now here?”
    “There was a first-year law student who did undergraduate work at Utah. Somebody already talked to him though.”
    “Law student? That doesn’t necessarily mean he’s intelligent, but it could.”
    Peterson had a law degree and Danni knew it.
    “Simply because somebody is a law student and goes to a different graduate school for their studies is not grounds to put
     them under suspicion,” he said.
    Danni had made the remark as a joke, but they obviously did not have the same sense of humor. She let it go.
    “Maybe not, but he’s here, so let’s go talk to him again and see for ourselves if he fits our profile in any way.”
    “It can’t hurt,” Peterson replied.

Chapter Five
    T he young man’s name was Thomas Felton and he lived in an apartment on Arthur Road. Luckily, he happened to be home when they
     came to visit.
    “I talked to a police officer the other day,” he told them after inviting them in. “What’s this about?”
    Although he was pushing back a little, he didn’t appear angry or defensive. Anybody would ask that question , Danni told herself as she studied the details of his face and compared them to the sketch that Stacey had helped them come
     up with. He was slim, his nose was straight, and his lips were thin, but that’s where the resemblance ended. His eyes were
     green, his brown hair was short and straight, and he was clean-shaven. It could have been a disguise , Danni surmised, not ready to let him go on appearances alone. After all, the perp was wearing a fake cast.
    “What do you think it’s about?” Peterson asked.
    “I don’t know. The other two guys who were here asked me questions about Utah, so I assume it has something to do with Utah
     and here.”
    “Anything else?” Danni persisted.
    “Well, the only thing I can think of was that there were some female students murdered in Utah when I was there, and the same
     thing is now happening here.”
    He said it nonchalantly, not a bit ill at ease. A guilty person would probably not make such an honest and open analysis to
     the police, she thought, although it would have had to be a calculation in anybody’s mind. Maybe he’s smart enough to know that. Maybe he’s a little too relaxed.
    “Well?” Peterson asked.
    “Well what? It’s true I was in both places. But I went to undergraduate school in Utah and law school here. That’s not unusual,
     is it?”
    “I don’t know,” Peterson replied. “Why did you go all the way across the country?”
    “Money, mostly. I came here a

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