All the bounty did was bring out the worst kinds of people.

For a full week, the phone number Jared had given as a direct contact for clues and the detectives' phones rang nonstop.

Even though it had been different people, different numbers, and people from different places, every call sounded the same... they all had the same hunger underneath it all. People claiming they knew Edward Kowalsky, people swearing they had seen him and the ones suddenly remembering a cousin or a neighbor or a guy ...