Summary

Tom felt like he failed to protect Jenny. The narrator notes that it is impossible to be with a child every minute of the day. Tom obsessed about finding the rapist. While Charlotte and the kids were at Block Island, Tom looked for the rapist. He noticed every new shopper at the car dealership and wondered if it could be her rapist. Tom made sure that boys at the party were questioned. He wanted them each to give a DNA sample, but that did not happen. A 12-year-old boy named Teddy Duncan who lived near the party said he saw a car he did not recognize in the neighborhood that night. It was determined that the car was a blue Honda Civic. An investigation centered on that piece of information. By Christmas, the town lost interest in finding the suspect, so it became...