Heroin
Something like this can’t happen without any gossip going around about it. At the school of the three girls, there was a rumor that Skylar had died at a party from a heroin overdose. Corporal Ronnie Gaskins, the officer handling the case, tracked down this gossip and took it for granted. He suspected that the other people at the party had panicked and hid the body.
There were few concrete indications, so this gossip received a lot of attention. Jessica Colebank of the Star City Police Department had her doubts about this statement. She decided to focus on Skylar’s friends. What didn’t sit right with her was that both girls’ statements were exactly the same, word for word.
Her gut feeling told her that the story had been rehearsed…