Back in the CID office, Jain and Manos sat on opposite sides of a desk. They were both shuffling paper into neat piles, wondering what to say. The silence was broken by Jain, who clicked on a mouse and brought Google up on a computer screen.

"I want to know about this murder he was in prison for." He started typing as he rambled on. Manos stopped rifling through paper and looked at him, silently.

"According to PNC, he was done for murder of a child and sexual assault. ...